Pear and Plum Cheesecake

Ingredients list for Pear and Plum Cheesecake

• 1/2 Red pear
• 3-4 Plum cake slices
• 1 cup Cream cheese
• 1 tablespoon Melted butter
• 1/2 cup Condensed milk
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
• 1 1/2 - 2 cups Whipped cream
• 1/2 tablespoon Gelatin
• as required Edible silver balls
• as required Edible red stars

Method

1. Line a small spring bottom cheesecake tin with an aluminium foil.
2. Crumble 2-3 plum cake slices in a bowl. Add melted butter and mix well.
3. Line the tin with some crumble mixture and refrigerate to set.
4. Take cream cheese in another bowl. Add condensed milk and whisk. Add vanilla essence and whisk well. Add ⅓ of whipped cream and fold. Add remaining whipped cream and fold well.
5. Take gelatin in a bowl. Add some cream mixture and mix well. Add the gelatin-cream mixture to the remaining cream mixture and mix well.
6. Pour the prepared cream mixture in lined tin and tap. Refrigerate to set for 4-5 hours.
7. Discard stem and bottom of pear, halve and thinly slice.
8. Remove cheese cake from refrigerate. Heat the side edges of the tin using a blow torch and demould the cheesecake. Gently discard the aluminium foil and place the cheesecake on a serving platter.
9. Make a fan of sliced pear and place on one side of cheesecake. Cut the remaining plum cake slice using a medium size Christmas tree cookie cutter and place it on top of cheesecake.
10. Decorate with edible silver balls and edible red stars. Serve.

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