Another Strawberry Cheesecake

Find me boring? I just made another Strawberry Cheesecake! This time I topped the cheesecake with agar-agar over the sliced strawberries.

Thanks to the Korean Strawberry season... think Cold Storage is over-stocked with strawberries coz they r selling 4 punnets for only SGD 9.99 ;-)

and I found this FAT-FREE cream cheese @ cold storage.... and I told myself, MUST BUY MUST BUY!! :D

Also from Cold Storage... No Frills Brand Marie biscuits for the cheesecake base. FairPrice Butter from my fridge.... My fridge is always well-stocked with FairPrice Butter! Cheap & Nice!

Again, the SQ's 7 o'clock way of presenting a slice of my cheesecake :P

5 o'clock

Recipe & Instruction

Cheesecake Base

• 150g Marie Biscuit, crushed using blender
• 60g Butter
• Melt butter in a frying pan, add in biscuit crumbs... make sure every bit of the crumbs r moistened with the melted butter.
• Press the above with a metal spoon, hard onto a remove-able bottom cake mould.
  Chill in fridge for 20mins

Cheesecake Filling

• 250g Cream Cheese (Thaw on table-top for 1hr)
• 250g Whipping Cream
• 50g Sugar
• 100g Condensed Milk
• 250g Korean Strawberries (grass & stocks removed, blended)
• 1 tbsp gelatine powder, dissolved in 3 tbsp of water
• Whip the whipping cream till soft peak, put it back to the fridge to prevent melting
• Cream the cream cheese till smooth, add in sugar, condensed milk till u get a smooth texture
• Add in the crushed strawberries
• Add in the Whipped cream
• Add in gelatine mixture
• Pour onto the chilled cake base and leave to set at least 4hrs or overnight in fridge.

Topping

• 3g Agar Agar powder (colourless)
• 300 ml water
• 50g sugar
• Dissolve all the above in a pot, bring it to a boiling point, off the heat. Whisk the mixture for a while to cool off before pouring on the set cheesecake.
• Slice 10 strawberries and place the neatly on the set cheesecake.
• VERY SLOWLY, pour the agar-agar mixture on the cheesecake, make sure all the strawberries slices are covered.
• Put it back to the Fridge to set for at least 3hrs.

Northland Primary School's 22nd Anniversary

It's my daughter's school's birthday on this coming Friday.... and these cookies are meant to be given out to every student.

I ordered the school's crest on edible icing images from JB and Siti Roslina from Simple Delite baked these cookies. I only took part in the "pasting" and the packing work.

Strawberry CheeseCake

I made another variation of Strawberry Cheesecake for my fussy Nyx. I asked her to come and take a look of the dessert for tonite.... When she see the above, she said, HAR?? so Plain?? why isn't there any decoration on the cake at all???!!!??? I was disheartened to hear this sentence from my BRAT!!!!!!!! X(

so after sending her to school, I took a bus to Northpoint Cold Storage to buy some Korean Strawberries (Nyx's favourite) to DECORATE that PLAIN-looking cheesecake :(

这样可以吃了吧？女儿？？？

I told the econ-minimart auntie downstairs about what my brat commented about my cheesecake this morning.... She said "well, actually its good to have some FEEDBACK sometimes" ok.... no choice, i just have to 认命lor :( haizzzzz...........

Recipe & Instruction

Cheesecake Base

• 15 McVities Digestive Biscuit, crushed using blender
• 75g Butter
• Melt butter in a frying pan, add in biscuit crumbs... make sure every bit of the crumbs r moistened with the melted butter.
• Press the above with a metal spoon, hard onto a remove-able bottom cake mould.
• Chill in fridge for 20mins

Cheesecake Filling

• 250g Cream Cheese (Thaw on table-top for 1hr)
• 250g Whipping Cream
• 50g Sugar
• 100g Condensed Milk
• 250g Korean Strawberries (grass & stocks removed, blended)
• 1 tbsp gelatine powder, dissolved in 3 tbsp of water

• Whip the whipping cream till soft peak, put it back to the fridge to prevent melting
• Cream the cream cheese till smooth, add in sugar, condensed milk till u get a smooth texture
• Add in the crushed strawberries
• Add in the Whipped cream
• Add in gelatine mixture

• Pour onto the chilled cake base and leave to set overnight in fridge.

• DECORATE!!!! :D

Hawaiian Quiche

Was watching Rachel Allen's Baked on Discovery Travel & Living and I got craving for that Quiche Lorraine she was making....

so I made my Quiche in my Hawaiian Version, with Rachel Allen's method. (sorry Richard :P)
My 2 daughters & me ate 2 Quiches for dinner last nite ;-)
Here's Quiche No.2.
And Quiche No. 3 in Daiso's Baking Dish

Recipe & Method

Shortcrust Pastry

• 200g Plain Flour
• 100g Butter, cubed
• pinch of salt
• Rub in all the above
• whisk 1 egg, add in half to above, rub in again
• then add in the other half and rub again till u get a crumbly texture
• put the dough in between 2 sheets of cling wrap, press it hard to achieve a flat-sheet about 5mm thickness. chill in fridge on a metal plate for 20-30mins
• Bake the pastry @ 180°c on a pie dish with removable base with beans for 20mins.
• Remove beans and bake for further 5mins.

Filling

• 4 eggs (2 whole and 2 yolks)
  250ml cream (i use Bulla brand, thickened cream)
• 175g bacon, cut and fried with 1 tbsp of olive oil
• 200g cheddar cheese, grated (i mix red and white cheddar)
• 1 can of sliced pineapple (cut into small chunks)

• Place the bacon, pineapple chunks and grated cheese into the baked pastry shell
• Whisk the eggs and cream together, pour into the pie dish.

Bake @ 180°c for 45-50mins.

Hubby's 37th Birthday.... Cakes with compliments from Marriott, not ME :D

It was my hubby's BD and I remembered he received a complimentary Marriott Hotel Pastry Shop voucher from Citibank.... we have no idea at all why the bank sent us this voucher at all :D anyway, since I have no time to bake him a cake... I might as well redeem some HOTEL CAKES for my DH.

Best thing is that the Hotel staff also have no idea where this redemption came about... they were overwhelmed by the sudden group of people coming to their counter with the cake voucher I had in my hand :D anyway, I got myself 4 slices of cake & a fruit tart....

Raspberry Chocolate Torte

German Black Forest Cake

Chocolate Brownie with gold coins

Chocolate Opera Torte

Mixed fruit Tart for Tessa since everything else is CHOCOLATE!!!

BTW: remember my little Tessa is nut allergy?

Bling-Blings to fone :D (Non-Bake Related!)

I dun just decorate myBakez alone... I decorate my fone too ;-) I think my fone looked boring.... so I added some **bling-blings** to it last nite :D By the way, since Feb this year, all the pictures on this blog were taken by this fone of mine ;-)