Cake #173 - Avocado and Lime Cheesecake

Monday Mood Cake - Avocado and Lime Cheesecake.

Spring!! Sunshine!

Avocado and Lime Cheesecake

Crust:
150g Digestive cookies, crumbed
75g butter, melted

Filling:
3 avocados, mashed
300g  cream cheese 
150 ml granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla sugar
8 gelatine leaves
juice of 2 limes
3 egg whites
green food colouring

1. Mix the digestive cookie crumbs and melted butter.  Press the mixture into the bottom of a spring form cake pan, base covered with baking parchment. Let the crust cool and rest in the fridge while you make the filling.
2. Soak the gelatine leaves in cold water for 5 minutes.
3. Mix the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla sugar.
4. Heat up the lime juice and melt the soaked gelatine leaves in the hot juice and pour the smooth liquid into the cheese mixture. Mix well.
5. Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold them very gently into the cheese mixture trying to keep it ‘airy’.
6. Divide the cheese mixture equally into three bowls.
7. Take the first bowl and add half of the mashed avocado and mix well.
8. Take the second bowl and add the other half of the mashed avocado and a few drops of green food colouring and mix well.
9. Pour the darker green filling on the crust and spread evenly.
10. Spread the lighter green filling on the darker layer very carefully and evenly.
11. Last, spread the white filling on top very carefully and evenly.
12. Chill the cake in the fridge for at least four hours until firm.
7. Remove the firm cake from the pan very, very carefully on a serving plate and decorate it with grated lime zest, small avocado cubes or green sprinkles.
8. Enjoy!