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Showing posts with label Cheesecake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cheesecake. Show all posts

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Strawberry cheesecake

Having played around with many food processors in the past and not been happy with any of them, I have finally found one that works for me. A BREVILLE ICON BFP650. In the recipe book that comes with it is a lovely recipe for a lemon cheesecake, but I wanted to make a strawberry one so I have adapted it. Here's what I did. Ingredients....

250g pkt plain sweet Biscuits.
125 Butter (melted)
250g Cream Cheese (cubed and softened)
400g can sweetened Condensed Milk.
125ml Cream.
1 tablespoon Gelatin powder.
10ml boiling water.
2 teaspoons Strawberry essence.
2 punnets Strawberries. (half a punnet diced and reserve the rest sliced for the top)
2 tablespoons of strawberry Jam.
A little boiling water.

Method...

With butter, grease a 20cm spring form tin and set aside.
Melt the butter in the microwave on 50% power and allow to cool. Break the biscuits in to quarters and place in processor and pulse until finely crushed. Add melted butter slowly through the food chute and process until combined. Remove crumb mixture from bowl and press in to spring form tin, over the base and up the sides.
Place cream cheese, condensed milk and cream in to the food processor and combine but don't over do this. Melt the gelatin in the boiling water and stir well, add this and the strawberry essence to the cheese mix now and pulse for a second or two. Stir in the diced strawberries and put in to the biscuit case in tin. Put this in the fridge now to set, this can take up to three hours, mine was done in two hours.
Place the sliced strawberries on the top in a pattern to suit yourself. Add the boiling water to the jam and brush on with a pastry brush to give the strawberries a lovely glaze.




Monday, November 16, 2009

Brownies with a Coffee Cheescake Swirl

This is a marriage made in heaven. Dark sticky brownies all gooey and chocolaty with a swirl of coffee cheesecake for added yummieness.
Two recipes have been pulled together here, the first (brownies) I have made at least once a week since Heather gave me the recipe over on the forum I belong to Violet's Pantry.
http://pinkbytes.blogspot.com/2009/04/dark-chocolate-brownies.html The second part is from another member from V.P. our dear Granny, who writes a smashing blog called Tea and Wheaten Bread. http://teandwheatenbread.blogspot.com/2009/09/chocolate-cheesecake-brownies.html
Now for what I did.The Ingredients..
8 oz Butter
4 oz Cocoa Powder (good quality)
4 Eggs.
8 oz Dark brown Sugar.
2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract.
4 oz S.R. Flour.
4 0z White Chocolate Chunks.
2 teaspoons Instant Coffee.

Cheesecake Swirl..
8 oz Soft Cream Cheese (I used Philadelphia full fat)
4 oz Castor Sugar.
2 teaspoons Instant coffee (melted in a touch of boiling water)

Method..
Preheat oven to 180c. Line the bottom of a shallow baking tin with greaseproof paper (very important to do this)
Melt the butter, then add the cocoa powder and coffee, stirring well to remove any lumps.
Beat the eggs in a large bowl, add the sugar and mix until smooth.
Stir in the cocoa mixture, white chocolate chunks and vanilla extract and mix well.
Add the sifted flour and mix gently with a spoon. Pour this mixture in to your tin and spread it around.
Now make the cheesecake swirl by mixing all ingredients together in a bowl, when soft and well combined, spoon on to brownie mix already in your tin. Then with a skewer just swirl it around until you have the desired affect.
Place the tin in to the oven for around 25 minutes. When done the brownies should be crisp on top and soft in the middle. Leave to cool before turning out and cutting, then dust with a little icing sugar.

If you wished, you could leave out the coffee element to this recipe, but I think it was HEAVEN. Hope you enjoy.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Birthday cake for Moi.

It's still very hot here in N.S.W. and I certainly wasn't going to put the oven on to make my own birthday cake, however, if my birthday was in the cooler months, I would have. So...
The TIRAMISU cake was got from *THE CHEESECAKE SHOP*. And was meant to serve 16 people, but this was so delicious, it is almost gone and only 5 people have had some. Yes, they were BIG serves. I had mine with a glass of Tia Maria on ice. Went with it very well indeed.
Happy birthday to me, YAY.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Lemon and Lime Cheesecake (Australia Day)


I made this today to celebrate Australia Day (26-01-09)

Ingredients
85g Original Lemon
½ cup boiling water
500g cream cheese, softened
125g (½ packet) Marie biscuits, crushed
150g melted butter
85g Original Jelly - Your Choice (I used LIME)
450ml additional water

Method
Dissolve the Lemon Delicious Jelly in ½ cup boiling water.
Allow to cool slightly, then whisk with cream cheese until smooth.
Combine the crushed Marie biscuits and butter and press into the base of a 30cm round or square pan.
Pour over the cream cheese filling, then spread evenly to cover the biscuit base.
Prepare additional Jelly according to the pack instructions. Allow to cool to an egg white consistency, then gently pour over the filling. Set until firm, then cut into slices.
Thank you to http://www.aeroplanejelly.com.au/ for yet another lovely recipe. What could be more Australian than this green and gold dessert?