March to April into May is mango season here in Cambodia, you can find mango tree every where, the tree makes for good shade from the sun, now you can just pick them everywhere! We have been picking since the beginning March from the mango tree next to the Mission Office. The fruit was not quite ripe yet, but office staff still eat them; it is sour but it tasted good to them because they eat it with mouthful of hot sauce!
Now the trees are ripe and we were given 3 large bags of mangos, one bag from Virak (our office manager), one bag brought by Sister Neang from her own home and one bag from the Realtor, Brother Leang. They all have mango trees growing in their house and they were very nice to share with us. However, how do you eat 30 mangos without getting tired of it? I took to Youtube university for recipes: Mango cheese cake and Mango Cake of course.
The mango cheese cake did not turn out as pretty as I hope. I could not find gelatin here so I used Agar. It turns out okay and I think I will give it another try this week.
One of the Chinese member from China turns 21 on Tuesday, so I decided to make him a birthday cake - Mango birthday cake. Then on the same day, I found out it was Sister Neang's birthday, so I decided I could make her a cake too since she has given me 10 Chinese yellow mango.
I watch the youtube video and started making it. The instruction was very clear and easy and the cake turned out great. The most expensive part of this cake is the strawberry! it costed US$15.00 for 1 pint of strawberry! Luckily, the mango was free! It costs about $15.00 to make each cake. Everyone enjoyed it!
My cake did not turn out too bad. The third one was the best in decoration. I served it at dinner with Paul and Susan Hansen, Kate Lloyd (area communication), Dan and Marian Sellers. It was a hit!
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| Mango cheese cake, first try |
This is the link to No bake Mango Cheesecake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llmP3KKdKdY&t=285s
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