Non baked oreo cheesecake

Baked this 2 days ago..

Compare to baked oreo cheese cake, i like the baked version better for its texture. Not too soft.

But appearance wise, this one wins hands down of course. Lol.

Poor hb, after waiting for months (since March 06 when i did the baked version), he finally got to eat it now only and i guess it's well worth waiting for. He gave this cake 2+1 thumbs up *wink*wink* :D


Non-baked Oreo Cheesecake

Ingredients:

Makes one 8"

2x 125g packets oreo cookies, cream removed (roughly 25 pcs)

70g butter

Filling:

3 tsp gelatine, dissolved in 60ml water

Juice from 2 lemons (about 80ml) : i only used half lemon else too sourish for our liking

500g cream cheese, softened

150g castor sugar

240ml whipping cream

1x 125g packet oreo cookies, roughly chopped

1. Prepare an 8 inch loose bottom or spring foam round cake tin. Wrap loose base of tin with aluminium foil (for easy removal of cake later) (optional). Place a piece of shiny contact or plastic strip (for making mousse cake) of 2.5-3 inch height around the inside of the tin as a collar.(optional as well) : i skipped both
   

2. Melt butter over medium heat. Set aside.

3. Place biscuits in food processor and process until finely crushed. Transfer to a bowl. Add melted butter and stir until crumbs are moistened by butter. Transfer crumbs to the prepared cake tin. Press firmly over base and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

4. In a stainless steel mixing bowl, dissolve gelatine in 60ml water. Add lemon juice into the gelatine and heat the mixture over a pot of simmering hot water, until gelatin is totally dissolved. Set aside to cool to about 60 degC.

5. In another mixing bowl , beat cream cheese and sugar until creamy and pale. Add in whipping cream and continue to beat for another 3 minutes (to whip the whipping cream up).

6. Add in the gelatine mixture and blend with mixer until just blended.

7. Pour cream cheese mixture over biscuit base and chill overnight or until firm.

8. To remove the cake from the cake tin, push the loose bottom of the cake tin up. Unwrap aluminium foil from the base. You can try to slowly push the whole cake on to a cake board (leaving the foil behind), OR just wrap the foil onto the cake board (without having to remove the foil). Carefully pull away the contact or plastic strip. : since i skipped the 2 options above at step 1, i just run a sharp knife around the cake, open the springform pan and slowly push the whole cake to my plate with the help of a knife :)