No-bake Matcha Chestnut Cheesecake
Ingredients (for 6 inch square mold (loose bottom)):
Digestive Cookie: 100g
Unsalted butter: 40g
Chestnut cheese layer
Boiled/instant chestnut: 50g
Cream cheese: 75g
Milk: 75g
Heavy cream: 25g
Granulated sugar: 20g
Gelatin: 8g
Matcha cheese layer:
Milk: 75g
Heavy cream: 25g
Granulated sugar: 20g
Gelatin: 8g
1. Cut chestnut into big pieces and set aside.
2. Crumble digestive cookies with food processor and mix with melted butter. Pour it into the mold, make it as flat as you can and put into the fridge to set.
To make the chestnut cheese layer:
1. Pour gelatin into small amount of milk, wait for 10 min until resolve.
2. Put room temperature cream cheese, the rest of the milk, heavy cream, and sugar into a big bowl. Using a double boiler, blend the mixture until smooth.
3. Pour resolved gelatin and chestnut pieces into the mixture in step 2 and blend until fully incorporated.
4. Pour into the mold and refrigerate for 2 hours or until harden.
5. Repeat the process to make matcha cheese layer.
Matcha cheese layer:
1. Pour gelatin into small amount of milk, wait for 10 min until resolve.
2. Put room temperature cream cheese, the rest of the milk, heavy cream, and sugar into a big bowl. Using a double boiler, blend the mixture until smooth. Add in matcha powder.
3. Pour resolved gelatin into the mixture in step 2 and blend until fully incorporated.
4. Pour the matcha cheese mixture onto the hardened chestnut cheese mixture and refrigerate for another 2 hours.
5. Use a hot towel or a hairdryer to demold the cake.
6. Cut into pieces.
7. Sprinkle with matcha powder and decorate with chestnut to serve.