Kunafa Cheesecake

Ingredients

50 g kunafa dough

1 cup milk

300 g full-fat cream cheese

300 g fresh cream

3/4 cup sugar

3 tbsp ghee

3 tbsp butter

3 tbsp chopped pistachio nuts

Preparation:

 1-   Preheat oven to 220°C

 2-   Prepare Cream in a large bowl, beat cream cheese with a hand mixer for a minute. Add fresh cream and sugar. Mix until homogeneous.

3- Add Cream and mix will. Refrigerate, until ready to serve, melt ghee and butter together in a small saucepan

 4- Form a handful of kunafa dough into a nest shape. Place kunafa nest into a muffin tin cup. Repeat 5 times, until you have 6 kunafa nests in a muffin pan

   5- Pour ghee and butter over kunafa nests. Bake for 15-17 minutes, until golden brown

  6- Meantime, toast pistachios in a saucepan on medium heat

  7- Pour 2 tablespoons of Dessert Syrup over each hot kunafa nest and allow to cool in the tin

    8- Put kunafa nests on a paper towel, to soak excess butter, and divide cheesecake evenly into 8 serving cups or small bowls. Top with kunafa and pistachios

   9-Serve cool!

 
H.Zoghib