Last cake for awhile!

My cooking days are over for awhile.........

no more birthdays till May in our household

Miss 10 requested a baked cheese cake and has also recently developed a fixation on all sweets coffee flavoured (possibly not a good sign?!)

Coffee cheese cake it was!

with a chocolate biscuit & hazelnut base and Vanilla whipped cream on top

I was a bit worried the kids wouldn't actually like the coffee flavour so I also made a traditional version as well

The recipe I used can be found back here

To make the coffee version 

omit the lemon rind & juice & raspberries

replace with

2 table spoons of instant coffee

mixed with 3 table spoons of warm water

mix the corn flour into the coffee mixture and add to the cheese mixture.

whip 300ml thickened cream add a touch of raw caster sugar, vanilla paste and pipe on top, sprinkle with demerara sugar.

Kids loved it and I think we will be living on cheese cake for the weekend!

Could be worse ;)

Xx Siobhan 

Tea Break

after all the cutting and sewing I think its time for food :) 

I made these little cheese cakes a few weeks ago for a school dinner and I was asked for the recipe, as usual its taken me a few weeks to get round to it....

This recipe is another one of my adapted over time ones, with changes and scrawls written all over the photocopy.

Baked Cheese Cake

this recipe is for a 20cm springform tin or you can make them in mini springform tins like I did

Base

125g sweet chocolate biscuit (tiny teddies) - crushed

125g Hazelnut meal

125g melted butter

combine biscuits, meal, butter and press mixture into a springform tin. Refrigerate.

Filling

300g sour cream

250g ricotta cheese

250g cream cheese - softened

3 eggs

1 cup raw caster sugar

1 tbs lemon rind

3 tbs lemon juice

1 tbs corn starch blended with

1 tbs water

handful of fresh or frozen raspberries

place cream cheese, ricotta,eggs , sugar, sour cream, lemon rind & juice & cornflour in a food processor and process until smooth. Pour mixture over base and sprinkle with raspberries.

Bake in a preheated oven at 150c oven for 40 minutes or until cheese cake is just set. Leave the cheese cake to cool completely then refrigerate till cheese cake is cold and firm.

enjoy!

more lone star instructions tomorrow :)

Xx Siobhan