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Creamy Banana Cheesecake

An easy recipe for Creamy Banana Cheesecake.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 6 hours
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 10 slices

Ingredients
  

Crust

  • 300 g butter biscuits
  • 2 tbsps vanilla sugar
  • 140 g melted unsalted butter
  • a pinch of salt

Banana cheesecake

  • 500 g mascarpone room temp
  • 160 g regular white sugar
  • 2 tbsps cornstarch
  • 2 tsps vanilla extract
  • 3 eggs room temp
  • 38 g banana pudding powder
  • 500 ml semi-fat milk
  • 1 tsp cinnamon powder
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • tsp cardamom
  • 4 ripen bananas
  • 1 tbsp honey

Banana whipped cream

  • 500 ml whipping cream
  • 38 g banana pudding powder
  • 500 ml semi-fat milk
  • 16 g cream stiffener

Instructions
 

Cheesecake Crust

  • Preheat the oven to 180°C . Prepare a cake tin with a diameter of 25 cm and a baking paper. In a food processor blend the butter biscuits until the consistency of flour.
  • In a bowl mix crushed biscuits, a pinch of salt, sugar and melted butter. Mix well with a fork and push into the bottom and sides of a cake tin.
  • Bake for 10 minutes. Take the crust out of the oven and let it cool.

Banana cheesecake

  • Decrease the temperature of the oven to 150°C.
  • In a pot make a banana pudding with semi-fat milk according to the instructions on the packaging. Let the pudding cool completely.
  • In a pan, roast the bananas with honey. Fry until golden for 3 minutes on each side.
  • Mix the mascarpone on high speed until creamy. Add roasted bananas, cool banana puffing, and vanilla extract, and mix on high speed until they are fully combined.
  • Add cornstarch, and regular white sugar, cinnamon, cardamom, and nutmeg, and mix on medium-high speed again. Add eggs, one at a time, and mix on low speed until they are fully combined.
  • Prepare a baking tray with boiling water. Put a baking tray on the bottom of the oven.
  • Pour the cheesecake mixture into a cake tin and bake for 50-60 minutes. The cheesecake is well baked when it's jiggly like jelly. Open the door on the oven and let the cheesecake in the oven for another hour.
  • Take the cheesecake out of the oven and let cool completely. When it's cool, put it in the fridge for at least an hour.

Banana whipped cream

  • Make a banana pudding with semi-fat milk according to the instruction on its packaging. Let it cool completely.
  • Whip the whipping cream with a cream stiffener until stiff. You can add a tablespoon of icing sugar if you like it sweeter.
  • Add cold banana pudding to the whipped cream. Mix them with a rubber spatula. Add banana whipped cream on top of the cold cheesecake. Put the cheesecake in the fridge for at least 5 hours, the best overnight.
Keyword banana, cheesecake