White Chocolate Cheese Cake

It had been quite long time since I made chocolate cheese cake (it's first time baking cheese cake for me). After I baked my first cheese cake I told myself that the next one must be White Chocolate Cheese Cake .... coz I love white chocolate :) so I bought cream cheese for the purpose of baking 2nd cheese cake and it was kept in the fridge till I almost forgot. Lucky me I found the cream cheese and decided to bake before it's going to expire in next 2 weeks.

I chose the recipe from Thai baking forum which many people baked and said it's very delicious and even can fight with one famous cake shop in Thailand. Though I did not follow 1 ingredient in the recipe coz I did not have yogurt on hand but with the substitution I used I also got such a perfect white chocolate cheese cake in taste. Thank you to Khun Tri and Khun Wan who created and modified the recipe. I did change some details and here is my version:

White Chocolate Cheese Cake

BASE
Oreo cookies 1 pack (put the cookies in the food processor to make crumbs)
Salted butter (melted) 60 g
*mix these 2 ingredients and press the wet crumbs in 7" springform pan lined with parchment paper (for easily removing the cheese cake from the base) then put in the preheat oven at 160C about 10 mins and set aside

CHEESE CAKE
White chocolate 200 g
Whipping cream 50 g
Cream cheese 250 g
Egg yolks 2
Lemon juice 1 tbsp + whipping cream to make enough 3/4 cup (stir and leave for 10 mins)
Vanilla 1 1/2 tsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Egg whites 2
Cream of tartar 1/4 tsp

1. Put whipping cream in microwave for 1 minute and add in white chocolate stir till chocolate melted. Leave till the chocolate cool to room temperature
2. Beat cream cheese with electric mixer with paddle attachment at medium speed till soft and creamy then change to low speed and add in yolks one at a time and follow by vanilla whipping cream & lemon juice mixture and melted white chocolate. Mix till just combine then stop the mixer
3. In another mixing bowl, beat egg whites with cream of tartar and sugar till soft peak and divide into 3 portions and fold each portion to cream cheese mixture until finish up the egg whites
4. Pour into springform pan with curst base and bake (water bath) in preheat oven at 160C for 1 hour

Remarks:

-For water bath baking, I just put the baking tray and filled up with water at the lowest rack during preheat the oven and I put the springform over the baking tray at the upper rack.
-You have to let the cheese cake cool down in the oven after it's done at least 2-3 hours by leaving the oven door open a little
and put the cheese cake into the fridge for 4 hours before cutting