Ingredients

  • 1 1/8 cups full cream milk or Low fat milk
  • 6 tablespoons butter
  • 7/8 cup cream Cheese, room temperature
  • 5 1/8 tablespoons plain flour
  • 4 13/16 tablespoons corn flour sift together with plain flour
  • 7 egg yolks
  • 7 egg whites
  • 3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 5/8 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla flavor

Method

  • Boil milk and butter together at medium heat, lower heat add in cheese cream~use hand whisk to stir cheese cream till smooth. Add in plain flour and corn flour mix well.
  • Lastly add in egg yolks and vanilla flavor, mix cheese cream mixture till thick and transfer to large bowl, leave to cool.
  • In a mixing bowl whisk egg whites, cream of tartar and sugar till peak form (that is the form peaks with tips stand straight when the beaters are lifted).
  • Use a rubber spatula to fold egg whites in two batches to the cheese cream mixture.
  • Pour cheese cream mixture to a lined 9" square cake tin and place cake tin at the lowest rack in the oven. Steam bake at preheated 150C for about 1 hour 15 mins.
  • After about 30 mins of baking or when you find the top of the cheesecake turned brown half way of baking, place a foil cover loosely over the cake tin.
  • Cool down cheesecake in room temperature. *Cheesecake will shrink as it cools.
  • Best to chill cheesecake before serve.