Key Lime Habanero Cheesecake
By TashaRose23
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Ingredients
- Crust
- • 30 chocolate wafers (enough to make 1 1/2 cups of chocolate crumbs)
- • 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
- Coulis
- • 1 cup water
- • 1 cup sugar
- • 2 key limes, juiced
- • candied hibiscus flowers
- Filling
- • 5 egg yolks
- • 1/4 cup key lime juice
- • 1 tablespoon key lime zest
- • 1 cup sugar
- • 1/2 habanero pepper, minced, no seeds
- • 2 cups whipped cream cheese, softened
- • 1 cup mascarpone cheese
- Meringues
- • 5 egg whites
- • 3 tablespoons sugar
- • 1 teaspoon white vinegar
Details
Level of difficulty Difficult
Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 120mins
Cost Average budget
Preparation
Step 1
Crust
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Put all the chocolate wafers in a resealable bag and then crush them into crumbs. Add the unsalted butter to the bag and mix together.
3. Mold the crust into the bottom of a spring form pan, about 1/4 inch thick. Bring it up the sides a little bit, about 1/2 an inch. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
Step 2
Coulis
1. Heat a pot over medium. Pour in the water, sugar, key lime juice, and candied hibiscus flowers. Bring to a boil.
2. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer for 10 minutes.
Step 3
Filling
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. To the egg yolks, add: the key lime juice, lime zest, 1 cup of sugar, habanero pepper and whisk together. Add the cream cheese and mascarpone then mix for another 15 seconds. Set aside.
Step 4
Meringues
1. Whip the egg whites together with the white vinegar and 3 tablespoons of sugar. Delicately fold this meringue into the cheesecake mixture. Pour evenly over chocolate crust.
Step 5
Assembly and Cooking
1. Place 2 layers of aluminum foil in a roasting pan. Put the cake in the middle of the foil. Bring the foil up to create a seal. Pour water into the roasting pan, half way up the sides of the cake.
2. Bake for 1 hour., to 1 h30 depending on oven.
3. Allow the cake to cool completely on a countertop then refrigerate over night.
4. Serve each slice of this cheesecake drizzled with key lime and hibiscus coulis.
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