Christmas recipes with a twist!

Bored of the traditional plum cake? Then try making a kokum cheesecake. Executive Chef Avinash Kumar of Novotel Imagica Khopoli shares his recipe. 

Kokum Cheesecake

Ingredients:

• 500 gm cream cheese
• 150 gm castor sugar                       
• 100 gm curd
• 50 gm Amul cream
• 10 gm cornflour
• 3 whole eggs
• 1 egg yolk
• 50 ml kokum syrup
• 5 ml vanilla essence                                             

Method:

• Mix cream cheese, curd and castor sugar. Add whole eggs and egg yolk in the above mixture.
• Add diluted cornflour, Amul cream, vanilla essence and kokum syrup. Mix it well. Place the mixture in a baking mould.
• Use double boiling method and bake it at 150°C for 45 minutes. Cool and garnish with almond flakes and kokum.

Yule Log

Ingredients:

• 500 gm chocolate premix
• 25 gm oil
• 250 ml water
• 300 gm whipped cream
• 150 gm chocolate ganache
• 100 gm sugar syrup

Method:

• Make the chocolate sponge by mixing oil, water and premix. Bake it at 180°C for 12 minutes. Make chocolate cream by mixing chocolate ganache and whipped cream.
• Take the sponge and soak it in sugar syrup, apply chocolate cream and roll it out and cool it for 30 minutes.
• Take it out and apply chocolate ganache and cut it in yule log shape and decorate with Christmas goodies.