Mango Cheescake - Eggless and No Bake Version

Ever since the mango season has begun, I had a thought in my mind that I had to make this awesome flavored cheesecake. And today I am very excited to share this mango cheesecake with you all.  This easy no bake cheesecake is made without eggs and gelatin. Although, I say this cake is easy but still you need to spend your time to make the best cheesecake. If you follow the recipe stepwise, things can be really easy and you will also end up  saying that this cheesecake is one of the easiest cheesecake you have ever made.

The mango cheesecake has 3 components – Crust, Mango flavored cheese filling and Rosette for decoration.

Rosette gives elegant look to the cake. If you feel making rosettes can be time taking, you can simply decorate cake with mango glaze or mango jelly.

The delicious crust is made with readily available cookies or biscuits. When mixed with right amount of butter you get the  best crust as much similar to that of traditional shortcrust pastry.

Till now, you might have got idea how this no bake mango cheesecake will be. So do try this delicious cake to know the actual taste of the cake. Lastly I want to say, if you want that freshness and real sweetness of mangoes, always use fresh mangoes for this recipe. I have already shared mango mousse cake using eggless sponge cake on my blog. Do check it out

You can also look to my other mango recipes like mango icecream, aamras, mango and chocolate ganache cake and aambyache saasav(konkani style mango curry

INGREDIENTS

For Crust

• Digestive Biscuits - 18 biscuits
• Melted butter 9salted or unsalted) – 3 tbsp
• For Mango Cream Filling.
• Hung curd – 2 cups
• Cottage cheese or paneer – ½ cup
• Mango puree – 1 cup
• Powdered sugar – 1 cup
• Agar agar  powder – 2 tsp (if using dried agar agar grass use about 10 gm)

Just in case if you do not want to decorate cake with mango slice rosettes. Simply you can follow below recipe of mango glaze for decoration

For the Mango Glaze:

• Mango puree – ½ cup
• Water – 2tbsp
• Powdered sugar – 2tbsp
• Lemon juice – 1tbsp

• Add in all the ingredients in a saucepan and cook on the medium flame.
• When the mixture comes to boil, lower the flame and cook for another 3 minutes.
• Allow the mixture to cool down and then spread the glaze over the cheesecake using a spoon.
• Then allow the glaze to set on cheesecake for 2 hours or till it completely sets.
• Glazing on the cheesecake can be done only after the cheesecake is completely set.

For Rosettes.

• Thinly sliced mango slices – as required.
• Red cherries - few
  

 METHOD

• Crush all the biscuits and put them into a mixer.
• Grind it into a fine powder. Then add melted butter and pulse it for another 2 minutes.
• Remove the mixture and put it into an 8 inch spring form pan.
• Press the mixture evenly into the base of the pan and refrigerator it for half an hour or freeze it for 15 minutes.
• Soak agar powder into ½ cup of water.  
• Pulse the grated paneer to a smooth mixture .Take the mixture into a bowl.
• Into a same mixer add in hung curd and powdered sugar. Pulse it to a smooth mixture. Take the thick curd mixture into the same bowl which has paneer mixture in it.
• In a saucepan add agar powder and water mixture .Stir it on low heat until it melts completely. Do not allow this to boil.
• After the agar mixture melts completely, pour the mixture into mango puree. Mix well so that agar agar mixture completely mixes into the mango puree.
• Now slowly add the mango mixture into the hung curd and paneer mixture. Whisk the mixture using hand whisker.
• Pour the cheese filling mixture over the prepared crust, spread it evenly with a spoon and chill in the refrigerator for about two hour.
• After the mango cheesecake is completely set, slowly remove it from spring form pan and decorate the cake with  mango slices (rosettes) and red cherries.
  
• If you do not want to decorate cake with rosettes, go ahead with mango glaze. It will also give nice touch to your cake. When using glazing for decoration, do it before you demould the cheesecake from spring form pan.