Merry Berries Cottony CheeseCake

Bot a SGD4.70 Cheesecake from Giant supermarket. As it looked kind of boring, I decorated it with berries :D It looked so pretty after my decorationz rite? ;-) so I decided to take some pix for it :D

and i did a collages for some pix :D

my girls ate all the decorationz after my photo taking :D

its amazing how these red berries that grew out of grass can look and taste so yummmz :D

Merry Berries Cottony CheeseCake

Hi All!
Korean Strawberries r IN early this year end!!!
Early Merry Christmas Greetings with my Berries Berries Cottony Cheesecake ;-)

BlueBerry Ice-Cream Oreo CheeseCake

Chilled CheeseCakewith BlueBerry Ice-Cream Oreo cookie Crust.

Decorated with BlueBerry Chocolate + MiniOreo + Colorful hundreds&thousands

come n have a slice ;-)

Actually, I dun like the blueberry chocolate at all :P tasted too artificial :( more like those grape-flavour bubblegum I ate when I was very young :P

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.

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

My 1st Matcha Tiramisu

I made a Matcha Tiramisu last nite. I sliced it up this morning and was quite disappointed with the result! :( The cake was too dampened with the green tea syrup. That "soaking power" of the Savoiardo must be too good :D I think I will not dip them in green tea syrup in future... instead, I should just brush some syrup lightly on the savoiardo... think that will do ;-)
Anyway, the taste is very nice!! I will make my 2nd attempt on this cake soon ;-)

see, the matcha syrup is oozzzing out!! :( as usual, the left-over filling makes my little Matcha Tiramisu cuppies....

Ingredients

12 Savoiardo Lady's Fingers

Matcha Syrup

1 cup hot water mix with

1tbsp Matcha Powder then set aside to cool, then I add in

1 tbsp of Cointreau

Fillings

125g Mascarpone Cheese

2 tsp Matcha Powder

150g Non-Dairy Whipping cream

2 tbsp Cointreau

Method

Whisk whipping cream till soft peak, set aside.

Whisk mascarpone Cheese till soft, add in matcha powder

Add in half the whipped cream to the softened cheese, mix for a while and add in the remaining half till combined, add in Cointreau and you'll get that filling done.

I dipped the savoiardo in the matcha syrup but I suggest you just brush the syrup lightly on the savoiardo will do and then lay them neatly on the cake mould. Then spread half filling on top. Then lay another layer of savoiardo, then spread the remaining filling on top. Put in the fridge to set overnight.

and that all made a 挺差劲 but 挺好吃的 Matcha Tiramisu Log cake :P

watch out for my improved version soon lah :D

Strawberry CheeseCake

I was really busy this year with my Nyx entering Primary 1 and in the afternoon session. I still have the passion to bake but I'm always running out of time for everything. So I guess, I will be doing lots of chilled cakes or those without much decoration required :(

I bought this pack of Jell-O No Bake Strawberry Cheesecake Dessert some time ago... so I did this last night... ooooooooooooo! this is so easy! just like what was stated on the box, "Quick & Easy, 15 minutes preparation ;-) then I chilled it in the fridge overnight...

Nice looking & Yummy ;-)

I added more strawberries for decoration purpose ;-)
美不美？我好喜欢wor!! :D
I did whatever it state on the instruction, except I added more strawberries for decorations :D

我imitate得像不像？:D

Breakfast on 正月初八

Brought too much food to the gambling session and we ended up bringing back 4 mini orange cheesecake pie back home for the next day's breakfast :DDun those mini pandan chiffon cake look familiar?? yes... they r from my dear baking-pal, LF aka fatmumbaking ;-)
the pandan chiffon tasted really yummy!!! its so soft.... it melts in your mouth man!! ;-)

my mini cheesecake also not bad lah :P but still feel that it will taste better on its own, without the oranges as the taste of the canned-oranges had kind of over-rided the taste of my chessecake :(

大吉大利Mandarin Orange CheeseCake Pie

大吉大利CheeseCake Pie

I made this batch of Mandarin Orange CheeseCake Pie for hubby's gambling session @ his ex-colleague's place this afternoon. They r done on ready-made graham biscuit Pie Base, bought @ Cold Storage. Wonder did I peel, de-skin, de-fiber and de-seed the mandarin oranges? No lah :D I use canned mandarin oranges!! Made my life much easier ;-)

I like these mini CheeseCake Pie... do they look like flower petals??? ;-)

inside the cheesecake ;-)

Chilled Oreo Cheesecake ~ No Bake again!

No nuts & chocolates had been my baking rules as My little Tessa is nut allergy... meaning Oreo is also a No-No for her.... but she is turning 4yrs old next month.... We just hope that she is just a Childhood Allergy case and will overcome the "nut-problem" as she grows older.

We were advised by doctors to give her bits of nut-stuff to boost-up her war against this allergy thing. She had pieces of Oreo biscuits for the past few months and she seems not having any reaction to it... Lets see if she will break-out with rashes tonite after these cuppies :P

Thess Jelly cups had been of good use!! ;-)

~Oh~ Oreo Oreo Oreo.... :D

Chilled Mango CheeseCake ~ No Bake!

I bought some Thai Honey Mangoes yesterday. One from the lot tasted sour and I didn't want to give it to my fussy gals. So I decided to crush them to made these cheesecake today!! ;-) The taste turn out quite well with the added sweetness from my enemy~ Sugar!! & Condensed Milk. Wonder if my little Tessa will have diarrhoea tonite as she is lactose intolerant ;P

I bought this pack of crushed honey graham crackers from AJ Mart, a 24hr mini mart located at my void deck. Its already crushed... so just need to stir with melted butter and pressed it hard to any mould/cup, then chill it for at least 30mins and your cheesecake base is ready!

Ingredients for my Mango Cheese filling

• 150g whipping cream (whipped to soft peak)
• 1 Block (250g) Cream Cheese
• Flesh of 1 Thai Honey Mango (Crushed using potato masher)
• 50g Sugar
• 100g condensed Milk
• 60g Mango Yogurt Drink (I use Marrigold Brand)
• 1 tbsp Gelatine Powder dissolved in 3 tbsp of hot water

Method

• Using Electric mixer, beat the cream cheese till u get a smooth texture
• Add in the crushed mango, Mango Yogurt Drink, sugar and condensed milk and mix for a while till everything combined
• Turn to slow speed, add in the gelatine mixture
• Lastly, add in the whipped cream and beat till everything combined again.
• Pour the mixture into pre-set chessecake base and keep in refrigerator to set overnite.
• Decorate as desired.

Sama Pattern as my Matcha Au Lait Agar?? :P

Blueberry Cheesecake

I was reading Catherine Lau's Cheesecake Seduction before I go to bed last nite and wanted so much to make a cheesecake this morning when i woke up... After marketing @ NTUC, I was supposed to bath my 2 dogs... instead, I started my cheesecake experiment...

I didn't really follow the ingredients stated as I dun have digestive biscuits at home.. so I used watever I had in my baking cabinet...

The cheesecake turned out well, tasted good except for my very 失败 "self-invented" cake base :( I should have crush them into "powdered form"!! NVM... I learnt something again :P

see... the base is breaking up!! :'(

Ingredients (My version):

Base
60gm Butter
60gm Feulletine
60gm Nestum flakes
60gm Corn flakes, crushed

Filling
500gm Cream Cheese
80gm Caster Sugar
50ml Lemon Juice, Strained
1 tbsp Lemon Zest, finely grated
1 1/2 tbsp Gelatine Powder, dissolved in 100ml water
500gm Nestle All-purpose Cream

Topping
1/2 tbsp Gelatine Powder, dissolved in 50ml water
200gm Blueberry Pie filling

Method

Base

• Melt butter in a pan over low heat. Stir in all crushed base ingredients, Fry until fragrant.
• Pressed into a greased 23cm springform cake pan with the back of a spoon.

• Cover cake pan and refrigerate for at least 30mins.

Filling

• Beat cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and zest until smooth. Pour in gelatine and mix until combined. Blend in cream
• Pour filling on biscuit base. Cover cake pan. Refrigerate for at least 6 hrs before removing from pan.

Topping

• Dissolve gelatine powder in water, mix together with the blueberry filling. Stir over low heat until mixture combined.
• Pour topping onto cake. Cover and refrigerate until set.

I think the above ingredients actually make a very thick cheese topping... Eat liao sure very "gelat one" ... so I tought of dividing the cheese filling into 2 portions and top up another layer in different flavour... but then, I was lazy... so I did the rest as per below:-

Yes! I bought another batch of plastic cups from Sheng Siong (again! :P) this morning... and very eager to fill them up with something. And I think this mini blueberry cheesecake in jelly cup oso not bad hor?!? ;-P ...At least the base won't break apart ;-P haha!