Level: medium
Preparation: 8,5 hours
Cooking: Until the cream is thickened
Servings: 4 or more people
Author: Matilde Vicenzi
Ingredients
For the Amaretto crispy base
- 7 oz Amaretti cookies
- 3.5oz of melted butter
For the cream
- 7 oz of whipped cream
- 3.5 oz of coffee beans, coarsely chopped
- 17.5 oz of cream cheese
- 4 oz of powdered sugar
- 0.35 oz of pure gelatin powder
Preparation
- Coarsely chop the coffee beans in a mixer so as to accentuate their aroma.
- Leave the coffee in the cream for about 3 hours.
- Chop the Amaretti biscuits until they turn into powder.
- Melt the butter. When cool, mix them together and pour them into a star-shaped mold to create the bottom of the cheesecake.
- Put in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours.
- Meanwhile, filter the cream from the coffee, take a third and warm it to 80°.
- Melt the pure gelatin powder after rehydrating it in cold water.
- Whip the remaining cream, add the cream cheese together with the powdered sugar, the cream and the pure gelatin powder.
- Combine everything and mix.
- Fill the star-shaped mold with the cream.
- Place in the refrigerator to compact for about 2 hours. Before serving, decorate with winter cherries and red currants.
