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Japanese Dessert: Beni Imo Cheese Cake/Violet Sweet Potato Cheese Cake Recipe
by Robert-Gilles Martineau

Japanese Dessert: Beni Imo Cheese Cake/Violet Sweet Potato Cheese Cake

Debra at Hapabento mentioned that she calls her Violet Sweet Poatatoes Okinawa Sweet Poataoes. Actually, Okinawa is famous all over Japan for its Violet Sweet Potatoes/Beni Imo/紅芋 and cakes made with the same!

Here is an Okinawa-inspired cheese Cake recipe:
Violet Sweet Potato Cheese Cake/Beni Imo Cheese Cake!

Rating: 4.4/5
Avg. 4.4/5 5 votes
Prep time: Japan Japanese
Cook time: Servings: 6

Wine and Drink Pairings: Japanese sake

Ingredients

  • Beni imo/Violet Sweet Potato: 120 g
  • Cream Cheese: 90 g
  • Cinnamon: 1/2~1 teaspoon
  • Honey (liquid): 2 tablespoons
  • Biscuits: 9~
  • Syrup:
  • Sugra: 1 teaspoon
  • Water: 1 tablespoon
  • Liqueur of your choice: 1 teaspoon
  • Egg yolk for “nappage”: as appropriate

Directions

1. -Bring cream cheese to room temperature. Wrap the violet sweet potato into cellophane paper and heat in microwave oven until soft.
2. -Prepare the syrup: Mix water and sugar and heat in microwave oven for 1 minute to dissolve sugar in the water. Let cool and add liqueur.
3. -Work the cheese cream with a spatula until it has become smooth. Add violet sweet potato (take off the skin and mash it first), honey, and cinnamon in that order and mix well one at a time.
4. -Line a mold with baking paper. Line the bottom with crushed biscuit.
5. -Pour syrup over biscuit lining and wait until the biscuits have absorbed it.
6. -Pour the violet sweet potato cream cheese mix.
7. -Leave the mix inside the mold as it is or try and make it more decorative as above.
8. -Brush plenty of egg yolk all over the surface.
9. -Bake it 180 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes.
10. -You may pour the mixture into an oven dish as above without the biscuits lining.