Happy CNY of The Rooster 2017

I'm totally immersed in K-drama ... so CNY baking? Hmn ... it has taken the backseat. It's hardly a priority for me this year. Still, I had to make some. I only made 3 types this year.

Nastar pineapple cookies, salted egg cookies and also sesame seed cookies. 

I reprised the recipes I used last year since I was rather happy with how the cookies turned out. For sesame cookies, I used Wen's Delight's recipe, but I reduced the sugar to 70g .... so the cookies turned out not sweet, yet quite crunchy and textural and nutty in flavour. Not bad actually. My mom liked them.  

Since I had a supply of durian this year, I decided to make a non-baked durian cheesecake. I was really happy with it because it was a hit with my relatives. The cake was so, so satisfying as everyone loved the creamy and rich and flavourful cake! 

The best item for me this year - the non-baked durian cheesecake.

This was also a recipe from Wen's Delight. However, I only used 1 bar of 250g cream cheese to make a smaller cake, and had to adjust the recipe accordingly. Consequently, this is my measurement for the ingredients :

• 250g durian
• 1 Tbsp sugar

I removed the durian flesh off the seeds, and put them in a food processor to grind. Then I cooked them with 1 Tbsp of sugar. The rest of the ingredients included : 

• 250g cream cheese
• 40g sugar
• 250g durian
• 250 whipping cream
• 1/4 tsp vanilla
• less than 1 tbsp of gelatin
• 2.5 Tbsp water 

At the last minute, I could not buy Digestive biscuits so I bought Oreos instead. There were about 1.7 packets with 35g of melted butter, and pressed in a baking tin. Oreos tasted fine with the durian cake as well.

The cheese layer was really creamy, which made the cake difficult to serve; but the taste was really superb. Love it and will make it again when I get my hands on more durian. :))