Festive Season Recipes by Foodhall: Saffron and Besan Ladoo Baked Cheesecake

Ingredients:

350 gms cream cheese

150 ml heavy cream

100 gms breakfast sugar/ fine sugar

1 and 1/2 egg

2 pinch saffron

100 gms besan laddoo (crushed)

20 gms unsalted butter to bind

Method: 

Crush besan laddoo and add unsalted butter to the mix. Bind to form the base

Press this mixture firmly and line a 1 kg cake tin, refrigerate to set. 

Take cream cheese in a bowl and soften to ensure there are no lumps. Add cream to it and mix well. 

Whip eggs in a hand blender and slowly add sugar till fluffy. 

Heat little water and steep the saffron in it to extract color and flavor, fold all the components together to a smooth and homogenous mixture. 

Pour the mixture into the greased baking tins/mold and bake on a double boiler at 145 deg C for 3 hours

Cool and cut the cheesecake as desired.

About Foodhall India:

We wanted to bring home the flavours from around the world to create a space that every food lover would enjoy. A place that allows you to not only buy unique, rare ingredients but also taste fresh food as you explore the store – indulging all five senses. This need for a buzzing and inspiring space was left unfulfilled.

So in 2011, Future Group launched Foodhall, a premium lifestyle food superstore. Currently Foodhall has six stores present in Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi and Gurgaon.

Cook time: 3 hours

Difficulty: Medium

Serves: 8

Recipe link: http://foodhallonline.com/saffron-and-besan-ladoo-baked-cheesecake-festive-special/