No Bake Cranberry Sauce Cheese Cake with Agar Agar
This No Bake Cranberry Sauce Cheese Cake with Agar Agar is a super simple, no bake cheese cake recipe that can be whipped up in no time!
Prep Time20 minutesmins
Cook Time6 hourshrs
Total Time6 hourshrs20 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Cranberry Sauce Vathal Kuzhambu, no bake cheese cake, No Bake Cranberry Sauce Cheese Cake
Servings: 4
Calories: 635kcal
Author: Srividhya G
Ingredients
1packCream cheese8 oz
⅔cupsCranberry sauce+ 3 tbsps
¾cupMilk
½cupSugar
1tspVanilla essence
1tbspCondensed milk
1.5tspsAgar Agar
1tbspChopped almondsfor garnish
19-in Graham cracker crust
Instructions
(I didn’t remove my crust from the aluminum tray. If required, you can remove the crust from the tray first)
Add ⅔ cup of the cranberry sauce to the bottom of pie crust and spread it out evenly and set aside.
Take the milk in a heavy bottom pan and add the agar agar powder to the milk and mix well.
Now heat the milk slowly and keep stirring it so that the agar agar mixes well and it doesn’t get deposited in the bottom.
As small bubbles starts to form, turn the heat off and let it cool down to room temperature.
While the milk is cooling, add the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla essence, condensed milk to a mixing bowl.
Using a hand mixer, mix them for about 5 minutes until all the ingredients are well incorporated.
Now slowly add the agar agar milk mix to the cheese mix. I added half of the mix first and using the hand mixer blended it for about 3 minutes and then added the remaining milk mix and blended again for 3 more minutes.
Now pour this cheese mix on top of the cranberry sauce in the pie crust and spread it out evenly.
Finally add the 3 tbsps of cranberry sauce on the top in your favorite design. Either you can drizzle on top or as like just spread it out again. ;-)
Let it set for at least 6 hours or leave it overnight and that’s it. Before serving sprinkle some crushed almonds.
Yummy no bake cranberry cheese cake is ready.
Notes
As we are adding the cranberry sauce in the bottom, the crust becomes soft. So if you want to remove the crust from the tray, do it before assembling the cake. Adjust the sugar and condensed milk as per your preference. If you are using condensed milk more than 3 tbsps, reduce the milk quantity to ½ cup. Instead of regular milk, you can use heavy cream to make it more rich. If you are using gelatin, follow the instructions as mentioned in the gelatin pack.Adapted from Good House Keeping Nov’16 issue