Want to make an original Halloween treat? Then scare your guests with a very realistic brain on a plate. Despite the fact that from its appearance, blood runs cold in veins, dessert it turns out incredibly tasty. After all, this is the most delicious cheesecake with filling from strawberries on a delicious crust of crushed crackers. For work you will need a plastic or silicone jelly mold in in the form of a brain, fill it with a mass of curd cheese and strawberries, cover with a cake and freeze. And then put the finished brain on plate, pour strawberry syrup and you will have the most frightening десерт в округе. 
Time: 40 мин. a plus setting time Difficulty: easy Servings: 8 Used in recipes volumetric containers: one cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Contents
Ingredients for the recipe:
Graham Cracker Cake
- 1 pack of whole-grain Graham crackers (9 whole crackers)
- 1/3 Art. brown sugar
- 0.5 tsp ground cinnamon
- A pinch of fine salt
- 110 gr. melted butter
Cheesecake
- 2 tbsp. l + 1.5 tsp no gelatin powder (of 2.5 sachets weighing 7 g.)
- 450 gr cream cheese, room temperature
- 3/4 Art. granulated sugar
- 0.5 tsp vanilla extract
- A pinch of fine salt
- The juice of half a lemon
- 2 tbsp. fat cream
- Bright red food coloring, gloss, for tinting cheesecake
- Special equipment: plastic mold for jelly in brain shape measuring 24 x 21 x 10 cm (volume 7 tbsp.)
- Cooking Spray
Strawberry sauce
- 450 gr strawberries, peeled and cut in half along
- 3/4 Art. granulated sugar
- The juice of half a lemon
Recipes with similar ingredients: shortbread cookies, cream cheese, cream, strawberries, lemon juice, cinnamon
Recipe preparation:
- Graham crackers cakes: mix in a food processor crackers, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt and chop into crumbs. Drizzle with butter and beat until mixture is similar. on the wet sand. Transfer the mass to a bowl and wipe the bowl combine harvester.
- Mix gelatin with 1/3 tbsp. warm water and soak for about 5 minutes.
- Cheesecake: whip cream cheese in a food processor until smooth, scraping cheese as needed from the walls of the bowl. Then add granulated sugar, vanilla, salt, lemon juice and softened gelatin. Mix until smooth. Not stopping the combine, add heavy cream and enough food dye to tint the mass in light pink. Everything mix.
- Strawberry syrup: mix in a medium-sized saucepan strawberries, sugar, lemon juice and 1/4 tbsp. water and over medium heat bring to a boil. Cook until the berries are very soft, but will still keep their shape. Strain the syrup, shift berries in a small bowl and refrigerate.
- Return the clean syrup to the pan and continue cooking until thickening about 10 minutes. Put the syrup in the refrigerator until readiness for use.
- Sprinkle a generous layer of plastic jelly in the form of a brain culinary spray. Put half the curd into a mold, stirring it to fill all sides of the form. Bet on 5 minutes into the freezer to thicken the mass. Via back of the spoon, spread the curd over the walls forms so that the entire inner surface has a coating thickness 1 cm. Put in the freezer for 10 minutes.
- Put the strawberries in the center of the mold. Sprinkle it with 1 tbsp. l strawberry syrup. Spread the remaining curd evenly mass of berries, pressing it to the form to fill all the cavities. Put crushed crackers on top and, pressing, form strong cake. Put the cheesecake in the freezer until the sides will not become very hard and almost frozen for about 2 hours. Transfer the cheesecake to the refrigerator 2 hours before serving.
- Remove the cheesecake from the mold: first gently for a while put the mold in a bowl of hot water, then walk a little a pastry shovel around the edge of the mold to free the cheesecake On the sides. Turn over onto a plate and pierce the small ones with a knife holes in the mold to release the cheesecake. Gently remove form. Pour the brains with the remaining strawberry syrup.
