Jennifer's Chocolate Lover's Cheesecake

Hi Friends

Just made a batch of these "heavenly" chocolaty cheesecakes for my ex-colleagues last week and they kept asking for the recipe - an adaptation of Chocolate Lover's Cheesecake from Kraftfoods:



Sorry for the bad photo-taking.

Filling (amount variation from original recipe) -340g PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened -¾ cup sugar -¾ tsp. vanilla -3 eggs -151g TULIP Dark Chocolate Compound, melted, slightly cooled Base (Sugar Dough Crust – 1/3 needed) Recipe from ”Yummy Cheesecake” by Kelly Tang -200g softened salted butter -100g icing sugar -1 egg For a chocolate base, add to above: -6 tsp Chocolate Flavoured Emulco* -150g TULIP Dark Chocolate Compound *More, if you love really chocolaty

Sugar Dough Crust, Base Method:

(Makes 3 sugar dough crusts for 8” pan)

1. Beat butter and icing sugar until well combined. Add in egg and beat well.
2. Lastly add in flour and vanilla and mix into a dough.
3. Press dough onto a 8”/20cm round springform pan** and prick some holes with fork. Bake at 150-160°C (300°F) until golden brown. Leave to cool.

** I used a 7”X10” cake tin lined with grease paper, extended over sides of tin.

Cheesecake Filling Method:

PREHEAT oven to 170° C (325°F). Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add eggs (one at a time); mix just until blended. Stir in melted chocolate. Pour into crust.

BAKE 40 min. or until center is almost set; cool.

REFRIGERATE several hours or overnight. ** Remove cheesecake from cake tin by pulling on the grease paper. Cut into squares or as desired. Store any leftover cheesecake in refrigerator.

The original recipe calls for an Oreo crust which is pretty "heaty" if you are watching the heatwaves in the atmosphere or your inner body heat.

I even tried adding extra Oreo quarters into and on top of the (original recipes) cheesecake mixture to give it the extra "crunch" which is a hit with kids; and equally for the adults too.

Check out the original recipe for the extra tips and variation suggested by Kraftfoods. Do check out their video on Cheesecake Basics.

Bon Appétit!

Love, Jennifer
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Belated Mid-Autumn Festival (Part 2)

Hello there again,

Here's a few others we did or learned:

Yogurt Fruity Truffle Snowskin Mooncakes
- learned from Phoon Huat's Chef.

White Coffee Agar-Agar Mooncakes

- homemade.

Flaky Yam Mooncakes - homemade.

Thousand Layer Yam Mooncakes - homemade.
(Not really successful as the paste is like stiff mochi with peeling skin!)

Thousand Layer Rosella Mooncake
- Made by Mdm Chee at the class.
(Not a very clear picture, sorry!)

Last year was all about Snowskin Mooncakes - Blueberry, Chocolate and Rum - learned from Phoon Huat's Chefs... just need to refrigerate overnight and they are firm enough to be handled.

We also learned from a friend on Baked Mooncake but yet to do it on our own ... finding them a little too tedious and also the time for it to futher "oiling" period after it's baked... thus, also time-consuming.

Here's all for this year. Next year, we'll see what we want to try out ... probably more Agar-Agar and Snowskin recipes.

Enjoy!
Jennifer
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Belated Mid-Autumn Festival (Part 1)

Hi friends!

Been awhile since we had posted anything... just to update the most recent activities... mooncakes, anyone? (Above... assorted snowskin mooncakes.)

Been running crazy between various mooncakes making classes these past weeks before the actual date and here's some of the great results:

Tiramisu, Black Forest & Peanut Butter Agar-Agar Mooncakes
- Made by Mrs Chee at the class.

Crystal Jade Peanut Butter Agar-Agar Mooncakes - made by us at home.

Royal Kaya Agar-Agar Mooncakes - made by us at home.

Rosella Muah Chee Flaky-skinned, Rosella Snowskin & Baked Durian Mooncakes
- baked by Mdm Chee at the class we attended.

Baked Macadamia & Pine Nuts Mooncake
- learnt by me from Phoon Huat's chef.

We will put in a few more pictures in awhile as this page is overloaded...haaaa....
Enjoy!
Signed, Mummy Jennifer and son, Jasper.

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Cupcake Pops or Rainbow-Lolli-Cake-Pops

Hi Everyone,

Wanted to share this with everyone for a long time but didn't quite find the time to search for my personal photos collection. Here are the photos of those I made... with chocolate cake with rainbow/chocolate sprinkles... my version of a Rainbow-Lolli-Cake-Pops:

I had too little time to finish all the ingredients and had made them into bite-sized cakes too:

I had modified this a little from the recipe from Bakerella. I added pureed strawberry jam to the Cream cheese frosting recipe to made the sandwich effect for the cakes above.

Originally, I had done it differently with her Smileys too - chocolate cake instead of red velvet cake; and also chocolate instead of chocolate barks... a little tough to coat but still turned out OK.

Had difficulty drawing the faces and gave up after 3 tries... could be the edible-ink pens I used... seems to work well on my fingers but just can't ink properly on the chocolate...(sigh...).
Enjoy!!
Jennifer

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Happy Father's Day - Beef Stew Recipe

Well, it's time for Father's Day again!

Want a great Beef Stew Recipe for dear hubby or daddy?

Well, Dave and Kathy are doing their wonders again... in the kitchen!

Well, you can have assess to this lovely dish with the recipe and a video to watch here.

Enjoy and have a Great Father's Day!

Jennifer
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Cooks' Bloopers

Dear Friends

My friend, Dave and his wife - Kathy, are such fun people and you could watch their bloopers here:


Like them? You could just drop your comments at their blog.

I, especially love their recipes.


Jennifer
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Great Carrot Cake Recipe - Fun & Healthy

Dear Parents, Kids and Cooking Fanatics

Want to get cracking at a great carrot cake recipe - not to mention fun and healthy!

To view how to make it... my friend, Dave and his lovely wife, Kathy; had a video and the recipe here.

Enjoy!
Jennifer
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