Japanese Cotton Cheesecake


Japanese Cuisine
3 Ingredients soufflé cheesecake

Ingredients:
- 3 eggs.
- 120 g (4,3oz) white chocolate.
- 120 g (4,3oz) cream cheese, softened.
 Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 170C (338F).
- Separate the eggs and place the whites in a large bowl.
- Let your egg whites sit in the refrigerator to keep them cold until you are ready to use them (which makes the meringue more stable).
- Place the chocolate (broken into pieces) in a large bowl.
- Melt the chocolate in a double boiler over hot water (60C - 140F).
- Add the cream cheese and melt them together.
- Remove the bowl from the double boiler, add the egg yolks, and mix well.
- In a large bowl, whip egg whites with an electric mixer until firm peaks form.
- If it's thick enough, you can turn the bowl upside down without it sliding out.
- Add ⅓ Meringue into the cream cheese batter and blend well with a spatula.
- Then add the rest of the Meringue ½ at a time and mix well.
- Rub some oil/butter on parchment paper (in this way, the cake can slide down when it shrinks, so you can prevent the cake from cracking).
- Line the 15 cm (6inch) round cake pan with the parchment paper.
- Pour the batter into the pan and drop the pan lightly on the counter to raise the air bubbles out of the batter.
- Place the cake pan on a baking sheet. Pour some hot water into the baking sheet.
- Bake at 170C (338F) for 15 minutes, 160C (320F) for 15 minutes, then stop the heat and bake with the remaining heat for 15 minutes.
- When it is done, place the cake pan on a wire rack to cool completely.
- You can either serve immediately or chill in the fridge before serving.
- It will slightly get hard in the fridge, so leave at room temperature for a few minutes before you serve.
- You can brush the cake with some apricot jam syrup and/or dust with powdered sugar (confectioner's sugar) to finish.
- You can serve it with whipped cream if desired.