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Taro Cheesecake

Silky baked cheesecake with sweet taro — soft lavender, creamy and dreamy ✨

Ingredients

  • 200g digestive biscuits, crushed
  • 100g butter, melted
  • 500g cream cheese, room temp
  • 150g sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 200ml sour cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch
  • 200g taro paste
  • 1 tbsp purple taro powder
  • 150ml heavy cream, whipped (for taro cream swirls)

How to make it

  1. Mix crushed biscuits with melted butter, press into a 20cm springform pan and bake 10 min at 180°C.
  2. Beat cream cheese, sugar, eggs, sour cream, vanilla, cornstarch, taro paste and taro powder until smooth and pale lavender.
  3. Pour over the crust and bake 50 min at 160°C until just set. Cool, then chill 4 hours.
  4. Pipe taro cream swirls over the top with the whipped cream, slice and serve.
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