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!

All cookies done for Nyx's Party tomorrow

Mission completed :D All set for tomorrow's Party

05 Aug 09: Cookie Art by ME ;-)

Very fast after my cookie decoration workshop @ Mong's last week, I'm so eager to try out this new skill I learnt...

These colorful tulips R cookies!! 美不美？

国旗国旗我爱你。。。and I think I never love my 国旗this much ;P
these r the 国旗cookies ordered by Nyx for her National Day Celebrations @ School this Friday ;-D

04 August2009: Peach Jelly

I found these jelly cups from Seng Siong yesterday.. only SGD3.00 for 16 cups! So today I made this batch of jelly for my gals :-) Not bad looking right? Do they look like those Marigold jelly selling @ econ minimarts?

But mine have bigger chunks of fruits :D although they r only canned peach slices :P

Online shopping for my hobby :D

I'm getting more 走火入魔 into my baking hobby... and an addict to Fondant modelling :P I had been searching around for nice impression mats but those out there for fondant are too expensive and designs are too limited... so I divert my search to clay crafting tools which I think fondant and clay are similar stuff and their tools should be similar too...

I found "Makin's Clay" impression sheets on the web which is quite popular in the US for clay crafts but its not selling in any of those crafts shops @ Bras Basah :( So tempted to buy from Amazon.com as its only USD2.56 per pack and some more, buy 2 get 1 free! but shipment back to SIN is at least USD19 lor :( no choice, I bought locally online from www.tinkleartncrafts.com which is a clay crafting studio @ SGD9.00 per pack... heng, I grab the last pack of SET B meaning I'm now the owner of all 5 sets :D

I oso bought a set of Christmas novelties cutters and mini star, heart and circle plungers for my future cookie & fondant experiments :D

See... so tiny!! exactly what I had been searching for.. baking suppliers dun make plungers this size!

30July09: Cookie Decoration Class @ Mong's place

I attended this Cookie Decoration Class today @ Mong's place... See these cookies I decorated? So pretty right? ...My preparation work for next week's project... Nyx ordered a batch of cookies for National Day celebration at her school next Friday...

Princess Cupcakes

I printed some extra icing images for my girls....
Pretty princess on cupcakes....

Cinderella for Nyx & Snow White for Tessa

Nyx brought these for breakfast on 16Jul, Thursday

Dessert for Tessa :D

15 July 2009: Princess Rapunzel & Ben10 Cupcakes

Nyx's best friend in school, Ketian's Birthday is just 2 days from hers... just like any 6yrs old girls... they r all crazy over Disney Princesses fairy tales and they want to own whatever princess they come across...

I was having breakfast with Ketian's mummy last week and she wonder where to get a Birthday cake for Ketian with Princess Rapunzel?? As this was quite a old release from Disney Barbie collection, its rather mission impossible :-( Then I play hero again lor :P I volunteer to make birthday cake for Ketian, using icing image... but I will do only on cupcakes as to my experience, the icing images on cakes cannot be cut, so, the tiny piece of icing on cupcake go straight into the mouth :D

That evening, i spent almost 3hrs surfing the net, searching for Rapunzel images to be crop out so I can submit my order to B-I-Y.com for printing.... they need 3 days advance order for the images and so suay, the person was on leave... so I can only collect my icing on Saturday, 11Jul.

Then i copied and crop these pictures as my icing images.

14 July 2009: I started baking the cupcakes and mixed color to the butter cream as Sally (Ketian's mummy) ordered KFC meals for the class Lunch... and I need to deliver the cakes by 11.30am on 15 July.

Cupcakes hot from the oven

Colorful butter cream icing

There they go inside the pipping bags

Fondant fun... Pretty flowers & leaves...

(1st time trying out my plunger tools bought from JB) :D

I creamed all the cupcakes before I go to bed... then before I sleep, hubby asked me what decoration I'm doing for the Ben 10? I told him I'm pipping a ring of green and yellow stars around the icing images. He said boys dun like stars! Then he showed me a picture of the Ben10 watch he downloaded from web.. he said I should pipe a ring of Black icing instead =x

Then I get off the bed, took out my fondant tools and made these "watch rings"!! Have green and yellow light some more :)) haha! Not bad leh! Then I go back to sleep.... around 1am!

and Princess Rapunzel goes on the cupcakes

I think I got addicted to fondant... they created much better effects compared to butter cream

And there they go inside the boxes...

And they r delivered to the Birthday girl in school.... Sister Keyu & Ketian... Mummy Sally busy distributing KFC Kiddy Chicky meals to the children...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ketian.... ;-)

Lovely "6" candle from Daiso :D

13 July 2009: Nyx's 6th Birthday

My Nyx is 6 today!

After Nyx ate those cupcakes+figurines I made in my Fondant making class, she placed order for birthday cake.

She wanted sport cars for the boys with their names on the cars; ballet shoes, princess crowns and magic wands for the girls... of coz I agreed!

My Princess Nyx is 6!

MeiMei Tessa on her left, best friend Ketian on her right

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY" Candles from BKK ~ only 40 Baht!

But they were melting away when lighted.. so we blew them off :(

Feel So Proud! I made these Cupcake!

Sport Cars on grass, with the Boys' Initials

The Drivers wear shades leh ;D

Ballet Shoes, Princess Crowns & Magic Wands for the Girls

I think the kids love these cupcakes i made :D I think everyone finished their cupcake before I left school... I brought Tessa home and Nyx stayed back as she had class to attend.

When I picked Nyx about an hour later, her teacher, Mrs Siva thank me (again) for the cakes! And she told me one of the boys actually kept the fondant car in his school bag! (Nyx will find out who is that boy tomorrow!)

13 July 2009: The Making of My Daughter's Birthday Cake

I started planning last Friday, 10July... I had stopped doing planning of my work ever since I stopped working 4yrs ago... See, I so serious! I write down the details on notepad wor :D

I started off mixing coloring to the white fondant... then i wrap them in cling wrap to prevent them from drying out...

See those little white balls? they r soon to be those ballet shoes :-)

Here comes the yellow sport cars...

black balls r the wheels

white balls r the drivers

flower cookie cutters does the shades :D

15 cars done-ded

Princess Crowns & Magic Wand in progress....

Figurines all Done :D

13 July 2009 9:00am

I started baking cupcakes... ya ya ya... I'm LAZY! I used pre-mixed cupcake mix from JB! since they r in the drawer for some time, I better use them b4 they expired!

This pack makes 33 cupcakes wor! Cheap cheap hor? :D

Cupcakes hot from the oven

My piping tips :D

Sport cars done, spot light fixed, initials embossed.

Ballet Shoes, Crowns and magic wands all done

....and There they go inside the boxes...

And they r delivered to our dear Princess Nyx..

Special credit goes to my Shifu, Mong (http://www.mongstirs.com/) for teaching me how to make those pretty figurines.... this happy mood wouldn't be possible if I didn't attend her workshop :-) ... and also THANKS to my dear baking pal Lifeng for recommending Mong's workshop to me.