pina colada cheesecake
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Yield 8 slices
You make the base first, then follow it up with a topping. Sounds like the way most of my Saturday nights turn out. Now listen here, I know you lot can be frightfully judgemental, but the chickpeas thing works well - remember, there's such a thing called chickpea flour!
Yeah, you should probably syn the grilled pineapple if you're a SW rule-follower. And possibly syn the blended chickpeas. But then you should do a lot of things and you don't, do you?
The beauty of this is that you can make it for taster night, then take them a packet of grapes and eat it yourself. Always thinking ahead. Note it requires an overnight chill.
Ingredients
- tin of drained chickpeas
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp truvia
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 pot of 0% activia vanilla yogurt
- 1 large tub of Muller light Greek style coconut and vanilla yogurt
- 1 small pot of quark
- 1 package of gelatine crystals/powder
- 10 drops of coconut flavouring
- chunks of pineapple with the edges blowtorched to look pretty
Instructions
- make the base by blending the chickpeas and eggs in a blender and pour into a loose bottomed cake tin and bake at 120 degrees for around an hour, it should be a dark golden brown on top, don't worry if it puffs up a bit like a cake, it'll sink back down when you cool it, a few cracks on top are ok too
- soak the gelatine in 4 tbsp of cold water for 10 minutes then warm the mixture up to dissolve the gelatine
- then mix with all the other ingredients until you have a smooth liquid - I find it easier if everything is at room temperature
- pour over the cooled cheesecake base and let it set overnight in the fridge
- decorate with chunks of pineapple that you've blowtorched to full effect
- lovely!
Notes
- a blowtorch in the kitchen is never a bad thing to have - though we just use my cigar lighter because I'm so butch (this is James writing, to be clear) but look! You can have a lot of fun with this - who needs fingerprints?
- technically, according to SW, you should syn the pineapple because you've heated it slightly. Because, as you know, adding heat turns it into a pineapple fritter.
Recipe by twochubbycubs at https://twochubbycubs.com/2018/09/22/pina-colada-cheesecake/