Green Tea Cheesecake 

Ingredients
6 tbps butter
3/4 cup crushed chocolate flavored grahams or oreo cookies
1 1/2 tsp green tea powder or 4-5 bags of green tea bags
3/4 cup water, divided
2 tbsp unflavored gelatin
1 bar (225 gms) plain cream cheese
3 cups all purpose cream
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup all-purpose cream, well chilled
2 tbsp confectionaire sugar or powdered cocoa (for coating chocolate curls)
bittersweet chocolate curls or shavings

Preparation

Make the crust ........

1. Line the bottom of eight 3-inch stainless/pvc rings with foil. Line the sides with acetate film. Arrange prepared molders in a tray. Set aside.
2. Melt butter in a heavy saucepan. Add crushed biscuits and blend well. Divide the mixture equally among the prepared molders.
3. With back of the teaspoon, press the crust against the foil lining to form a solid crust for the bottom. Set aside.

Make the cheesecake......

1. In a small saucepan, disperse green tea powder in water. Mix well and place over low heat until the powder blends with the water.
2. Measure 1/2 cup of the mixture and transfer to another saucepan. Stir in gelatin and allow granules to swell.
3. Cook gelatin-green tea mixture over low heat until the gelatin dissolved completely, taking care that the mixture does not boil. Set aside.
4. With an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese until fluffy. Pour in all-purpose cream and the sugar. Beat until smooth. Pour in the gelatin solution and continue to beat until blended. Enhance with green food color if desired.
5. Divide the mixture equally among the prepared molder. Freeze or chill until firm.

When ready to serve unmold the cheese cakes to a platter and top with whipped cream and chocolate shavings.


Make the topping.....
1. Beat all-purpose cream and sugar until it somewhat doubles in volume. Transfer the mixture to a pastry bag fitted with an open star tip. Use the pipe topping on the cheesecake......

Note:
* instead of choco grahams, i used crushed oreo. Just my personal taste, i think it will work better with the chocolate shavings.

** Since there's no available green tea powder in the supermarket, I infused 4 bags of green tea bags in water. I squeezed out the excess on the greentea-gelatin water for more flavor.

*** instead of confectionaire sugar, i used a bittersweet cocoa powder to coat my chocolate shavings.

About Mhel
Apart from being a medical intern, Mhel loves to paint, play piano, read books, and most especially cook good food:
"I'm a great sucker for herbs and spices, because I believe they can make wonders to your home cooking. My simple dreams are to be able to shop and do some groceries in a typical Indian or Persian spice markets (heaven!!), travel and have a lot of cultural and culinary adventures from different places (coz nothing beats a food safari trip, how I love to do Bourdain stuffs), be able to study in some French culinary school. Maybe someday, after I get my MD, and get to practice locally or abroad, I could study in a French Culinary School and be able to explore more on cooking."