Light Yogurt Cheese Cake

The other day one of my cheese loving friend made a remark that totally got me into a spin, she said that I might be decent on cooking pasta and stuff but how come I havent done any deserts ! I tried defending myself, claiming that I was trying so hard to watch my weight, of cause she scoff off my attempts with a leering smile haha ! Next thing you know I made this sexy beast of a cake and stuff it in her mouth !

500g Ricotta Cheese
200g Cream Cheese
1/2 cup of butter
2 table spoon of Lemon Zest
1 1/2 table spoon of Pure Vanilla extract
3 cups of sugar
4 cups of Fruit yogurt
5 egg whites
1 whole egg

First you let the cheese warm up to room temperature. Use a deep mixing bowl and put both of them into it and start whipping them together. Take care not to whip too fast. Now after the cheese are well into a milky and creamy texture, slowly add in 1 whole egg and then followed by the rest of the egg whites. Add them in 1 egg at a time too. the sugar to taste 1 cup of sugar at a time. The reason is you have to taste the mixture to make sure you like how sweet the end cheesecake would taste like. I myself stoppped at 1 1/2 cups only. Next pour in 1/2 cup of yogurt into the mixture, plus the 2 table spoon of Lemon Zest and 1 1/2 table spoon of Pure Vanilla Extracts.

Now it all depends if you like to have some kind of biscotti at the bottom layer of the cheesecake, I personally dont really like the change in texture, but if you like to make it rich then do it like me, I use Oreo Cookies minus the cream in the middle for any cheese cake biscotti. Just buy a packet of Oreo Cookies, divide them up and scrap off the cream and just crush em up in your hands to the bottom of the spring form pan. Of cos before you do that always prepare the spring form pan with a good brushing of butter.

After the spring form pan is ready, empty the cheese mixture into the spring form pan and bake it for 45 mins in an oven pre heated to 350 degrees F or about 175 degrees C. After that lower the temperature to 300 degrees F or about 150 degrees C and bake further for 15 mins or untill the center is set. I usually keep baking it till I can see the top part of the cake turns a little light brown.

Next prepare a mixture of the rest of the fruit yogurt in a bowl. Add sugar to it till taste of your choice. Next add in 1/2 cup of roasted almonds and mix it in well. After which pour the mixture on top of the cheese cake. Next we put the cake back into oven and bake it for 20 mins with the oven set by at 200 degrees F or 110 degrees C. After that let the cake cool to room temperature and put into a fridge over night.

Serve with a sharp knife dipped in hot water. Enjoy !!!