Coconut Cheesecake

Ingredients list for Coconut Cheesecake

• 1 cup Desiccated coconut
• Cream cheese
• 4 Digestive biscuits
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 2 tablespoons Unsalted butter
• 3 tablespoons Rum coconut flavoured
• 500 grams Cream cheese
• 3/4 cup Sugar
• a few drops Vanilla essence
• 225 grams Coconut cream
• 3 Eggs
• 1 packet Pineapple jelly
• 1 Star fruit sliced

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
2. Lightly grease a spring form cake tin. Lightly roast desiccated coconut and cool. Put into a bowl.
3. Add crushed biscuits, sugar and butter and mix well. Add 2 tbsps coconut flavoured rum and mix well. Put into the cake tin and spread evenly. Press to make it compact. Bake in the preheated oven for 7-8 minutes.
4. Place cream cheese, sugar, vanilla essence, coconut cream, 1 tbsp coconut flavoured rum and blend with a hand blender. Add eggs and blend again.
5. Take the cake tin out of the oven and set aside to cool slightly. Pour the cream cheese mixture over the biscuit base and bake for 1 hour.
6. Make the pineapple jelly as per instruction on the packet and cool. Do not set.
7. Chill the cheesecake. Demould it onto a serving plate.
8. Cut butter paper into strips and wrap around the cheesecake. Place the star fruit slices decoratively on the top. Pour the jelly over and keep in the refrigerator to set again.
9. Cut into wedges and serve chilled.