00:00What do you get when you marry your favorite dessert with your favorite Indian sweet? Barfi
00:21Cheesecake of course. We're here at Nisha's Cakes on Sapero Street, San Fernando with
00:27a chef Nisha Ganesh effortlessly whips up a wide assortment of sweet and savory delights.
00:34A little chit chat before she takes us into the kitchen to show us where the magic happens.
00:45Hairnet on, we're now ready to start. Nisha says the highest quality products go a long
00:50way towards making quality goods.
00:54This is my own recipe where we have a lot of, I have like one base eggless cheesecake
01:01recipe where I tweak to make different flavors. So I just tweak this one to make the barfi
01:07cheesecake.
01:08She will be using two sticks of cream cheese, sugar, vanilla essence, powdered milk, ginger,
01:14cardamom, sour cream, table cream, whipped cream and sprinkles.
01:19The traditional flavors for barfi would be the cream, fresh ginger, cardamom and of course
01:30milk powder. So this is traditional ingredients here that we add to the base of the cheesecake.
01:39First off, the cream cheese is mixed with sugar and vanilla essence along with ginger
01:45and cardamom.
01:46We cater for a lot of vegetarians. We have a lot of, probably like 60% of our items are
01:54eggless and vegetarian. We have a lot of cheesecakes which are eggless. We have chocolate ganache,
02:01carrot cake, red velvet. We even do alcohol free and eggless tiramisu.
02:07While the mixing takes place, she shares with us her journey.
02:11I started off by just baking cakes for like family gatherings, birthdays and little events.
02:17And then people started to ask for cakes and I guess it stemmed from there. From being
02:23a hobby to getting into home business and well furthering studies and opening up here.
02:30As Nisha adds the sour cream and the table cream to the mixture, she explains that hotel
02:36school did a lot for her.
02:38There's only so much you could be, you could actually teach yourself. Where hotel school
02:42kind of fine tuned everything. I mean, we did, you had to do like Spanish in hotel school,
02:50also business, math. So it's taught you a lot. It also teaches the theory behind like
02:58what would sugar do to the, what is the purpose of sugar in your recipe? What is the purpose
03:04of sugar in your recipe? It teaches you the theory behind the ingredients.
03:09Time to preheat the oven, by which time all the ingredients are incorporated.
03:14The crust is just the cookies, sugar, butter and spices. So you could put your cinnamon,
03:24you could put more cardamom in it.
03:26An ice cream scoop does the trick in getting even cupcakes and a mess free environment.
03:33All done. It's time for the oven, where it spends 10 minutes, the tray is turned and
03:40another three minutes.
03:49Nisha is a practicing Hindu and shares what Diwali means to her.
03:53I think Diwali brings the family closer together because everyone has to help because there's
04:00so much to do. So everyone has to come and help and they enjoy it. You know, the kids
04:05will help with the sweets and then the cooking of the food. There's a family event, the cleaning
04:10and everything. So I think it's more about bringing family together.
04:14It is left to set, then placed in the fridge to finish setting before the whipped cream
04:19and sprinkles are placed.
04:22Here comes the true test, the taste test of the barfi cheese.
04:37The ginger is like immediate. And you still taste the lychee. It's really good.
04:47Be sure to try out this recipe for your Diwali spread. But if you are left handed in the
04:53kitchen, you can just let Nisha do the baking for you.
04:57Urvashi Tiwari, Rupnay Rai, TV6 News.
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