This is the last post for J's birthday makans. Delayed post as I did not have the pictures earlier on (in sis' camera) and then was caught up what with month end closing busyness.
Followed the recipe to the T, obtained here, http://www.hub-uk.com/family20/family0993.htm. If only I had this spring-form pan, presentation wouldn't be blah :p This is my first attempt at baking a cheese cake, so will ensure it is much more presentable the next try. Checked out for spring-form pans in Carrefour, quite cheap at RM19.90 but of course not canggih-manggih looking like the one below but it serves its purpose.
Ingredients
1 cup digestive biscuit crumbsMethod
3 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp butter, melted
24 oz cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 large eggs
1 oz unsweetened chocolate, melted
- Combine the biscuit crumbs, sugar and butter and then press into the bottom of 9-inch spring-form pan.
- Bake at 180°C for 10 minutes.
- Combine cream cheese, sugar and vanilla, beating until well blended.
- Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition to make a batter.
- Blend chocolate into 1 cup of batter.
- Spoon plain and chocolate batters alternately over crust, cutting through batters with knife several times for the marble effect.
- Bake at 450 °F for 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 250°F and continue baking for a further 30 minutes.
- Loosen cake from rim of pan and cool before removing rim.
- Chill before serving.
No spring form pan, so had to make do with normal round pan lined with tracing paper. Tracing paper was to help remove cake from pan.
As warned earlier, presentation is blah, further compounded by my mom slipping the kitchen thongs onto my cake when she tried to help removing the cake from the oven. So ya, double arggghhhhh!
C Close up of mom's artwork :p
Taste wise was good though, J's sister C was my guinea pigfirst taster since J complained about being one. C cheekily asked upon her first bite, would the whole cake be hers if she said it didn't tasted good??!! Hehe. Anyways, 3/4 of the cake was polished off by the Especkerman clan in half hour. Big chunk of it went to J and C's tummy. I would take it as an indication that they liked it, very much so wouldn't you say? :)
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