As of today I have 14 hours until I have to get up and go to work! The other night I just had to bake something to take my mind off the approaching day.
I wasn't in the mood of setting up the wobbly water bath for the cheesecake, so I looked for a recipe for mini cakes. I have just started using evernote and moved all my cheesecake recipes over, so it was so much easier to find one, than searching through the lists of recipes in bookmarks!
I found a perfect one and got started. It is pretty much the exact recipe for the cake version I love to make, only the sour cream gets mixed in with the whole mix, instead of layered on top, like the cake does.
They turned out really well and when we finally tasted them yesterday, they tasted great too. Some though, had a bit too much biscuit base, as it's kind of tricky to figure out how much you have put in, in the muffin pan. Still they are quicker to whip up than the cake(except for the 3 hour cooling in the fridge! Stephen didn't appreciate that!)
One mini cake is enough for me, in one sitting.
After I popped the mini cheesecakes in the fridge I still had more baking power in me, so I searched for another recipe, something new. I came across a recipe for Gingerbread bars with Lemon Cream Cheese Icing. I didn't have ginger, so I swapped it for cinnamon, I also swapped the molasses the recipes called for, for golden syrup. Everything turned out delicious, so I think they were fine to swap:D I also left out the lemon extract they tell you to use(it being a company recipe!) I just added more lemon.
The icing was really delicious, very lemony, but a nice compliment to the cream cheese. I will definitely make these bars again, next time with the ginger ;)
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
The Only Cake You Ever Need
I baked myself a birthday cake today, only 4 days late! I was pretty much too hungover yesterday, so I left it until this afternoon. I used my new electric mixer I got as a present from Stephen :D It made beating so much easier.
The cake I made was a baked cheesecake, which is easily becoming a favourite of mine. This one is taken from Nigella Lawson cookbook, I got the recipe from another food blog, her photo's were just too hard to resist! It's a basic cheesecake but with a sour cream topping. I followed her instructions, except I think the time it took the cake to set in the oven was 40 minutes.
Also, I forgot the blueberries! So, I just used some blueberry jam for tonight and for taking pics :D
Well we waited all evening and finally at 10 pm we got to taste a slice. It was well worth the wait! The cheese part was perfectly tangy and soft and the biscuit base was the perfect crunch level too. Stephen would have been a little happier with more biscuit base, but I thought it was fine.
It is very rich, even though I thought I cut what was a slim piece, we were both very full after it. Although it being after 10 at night, could have had an effect on that too ;) I used Icelandic cream cheese(low fat) and Icelandic sour cream(15%). Just for the cheese alone, it cost me around 1000kr/£6.56/8.20e, so it's not a cake I would be baking all the time. I suppose for the once a year I have someone over, it's gonna be whipped up ;)
The cake I made was a baked cheesecake, which is easily becoming a favourite of mine. This one is taken from Nigella Lawson cookbook, I got the recipe from another food blog, her photo's were just too hard to resist! It's a basic cheesecake but with a sour cream topping. I followed her instructions, except I think the time it took the cake to set in the oven was 40 minutes.
Also, I forgot the blueberries! So, I just used some blueberry jam for tonight and for taking pics :D
Well we waited all evening and finally at 10 pm we got to taste a slice. It was well worth the wait! The cheese part was perfectly tangy and soft and the biscuit base was the perfect crunch level too. Stephen would have been a little happier with more biscuit base, but I thought it was fine.
It is very rich, even though I thought I cut what was a slim piece, we were both very full after it. Although it being after 10 at night, could have had an effect on that too ;) I used Icelandic cream cheese(low fat) and Icelandic sour cream(15%). Just for the cheese alone, it cost me around 1000kr/£6.56/8.20e, so it's not a cake I would be baking all the time. I suppose for the once a year I have someone over, it's gonna be whipped up ;)
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