Classic New York Cheesecake

It is only 18 days to X’Mas. Ready? Ready? Ready? Some families start to decorate their houses. You can see those hanging lights, X’Mas tree, wreath and different kind of hanging stars and hearts. Soon, you can see almost every house’s decoration. Sometime, it is like a competition. See whose house has the brightest lights, or see whose house gets the beautiful decoration. Guess what kind of the decorations our house will have?

 

Oven Temperature Setting: 170C/350F/Gas Mark 4

Baking Time: Around 40~50 minutes
Recipe: A 7” Classic New York Cheesecake

 

Steps of Classic New York Cheesecake

(1) Prepare Shortbread Crust: Place butter and sugar in a bowl. Whisk them until the butter turns a light and fluffy. And flour into the bowl. Mix flour into the butter. Line the dough to the baking tray. Bake at pre-heat oven at 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6 around 10 minutes until the top turns golden.

(2) Separate egg white and egg yolk. Whisk egg white until it has stiff peaks form. Add lemon juice in when there are some bubble s at whisking. Then, set aside.

(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: The bowl used for egg white must be very clean.)

(3) Add soft cream, double cream, vanilla extract into bowl with yolk. Mix all ingredients well.

(4) Add sugar, flour, and cornstarch into the batter. Well-mixed all ingredients.

(5) Fold the stiff egg white into the soft cream batter gradually and lightly.

(6) Pour the batter over the top of baked shortbread crust and send to the oven at 170C/350F/Gas Mark 4 around 40~50 minutes

 

Believe me, classic New York cheesecake is such a easy job. And you can bake at home totally. The cheese flavor is very strong like what we eat at restaurant!! Come and try it. Enjoy :D

Cheese Brownies

I have baked this cake for lots of times. At beginning, I thought that cheese cake is my favorite. But, it is really boring to bake cheese cake every time. All my friends know how much I love chocolate. So, I thought why not mix cheese cake and brownie together?? Yes, why not? I still remember how amazing this cake is when I ate it first time. Then, I talked to my friends that I found out lots of baker lover have same feelings. Hee… I think it is what we do. Baking lovers have same IDEA!!

Oven Temperature Setting:

180C/350F/Gas Mark 4 for first 10 minutes

Then, lower to 160C/325F/Gas Mark 3 after having cheese batter

Baking Time: Around 60 minutes
Recipe: A 7" Cheese Brownies

 

Steps of Cheese Brownies
(1) Melted dark chocolate and butter. When melting chocolate, don’t let the bottom of the bowl (with chocolate) touching the boiling water. It will change chocolate’s physical characteristics.
Also, it needs to cool down for a while before adding into the batter. Otherwise, the batter will be cooked before we send it into the oven.
(2) Place eggs, milk, and vanilla extract in a bowl. Whisk them.
(3) Add sugar, flour, and baking powder into the bowl. Incorporate the well.

(4) Add melted chocolate into the bowl. Incorporate all ingredients well.

(5) Pour brownies batter into the baking tin. Send it into the pre-heat oven at 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4 for the first 10 minutes.

(6) Prepare Cheese filling: add cream cheese, egg, vanilla extract in a big bowl. Mix all ingredients well. Then, add sugar into the cheese batter. Mix them

(7) Take brownies out of the oven. Reserve ONE Table Spoon cheese batter for swirling, and then pour the batter over the top of brownies.

(8) Selena’s Kitchen Talk: Drawing some pattern over the top is not a necessary step that skipping this one if you don’t want to do this.

Reserve one table spoon cheese batter. Add 2 Table Spoon of chocolate powder into the batter. Mix them well. Swirl it over the top of cheese batter. Then, draw the line in vertical direction.

(9) Switch the temperature down to 160C/325F/Gas Mark 3. Bake around 45~50 minutes until it sets.

Cheese Brownies is very delicious that it is more like brownies flavor with some soft cheese on the top. If you like cheese cake and chocolate brownies, don’t forget to try this one. You will LOVE it. Enjoy it.

Blackberry Cheese Cake with Shortbread Crust

 

After baking two different blackberry sponge cake. I need find out a new texture for my blackberry cake season. My favorite cake is classic cheesecake. I like the enriched and silky cream cheese filling in the mouth. The dense of cheese cake is the reason people like it. It is so simple to bake even though I am a new baker. So, cheesecake with blackberry, um… it sounds brilliant. And don’t use digestive biscuits today. It is so boring to use it all the time. Try a new crust for my blackberry cheese cake.

I think baking can reflect a person’s personality. I like to add something new in the classic style. I admit I am an old-school person, but I like to have some different things for my old-school life.

 





Oven Temperature Setting for shortbread crust: 200C/390F for 10 minutes
Oven Temperature Setting for cheese cake : 200C/390F for first 10 minutes; 170C/325F for another 30~35 minutes
Recipe: For a 8” round baking tray 

 

Steps of Blackberry

(1) Put blackberry in the pan. And add sugar in it.

(2) Boiling blackberry for around 5 minutes
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: We can use a folk mashing a couple of blackberries first. It is easier to cook it. )
(3) Pour through a sieve. Set aside.

 

Steps of Shortbread Crust

(1) Weight all ingredients

(2) Add butter and sugar into a bowl. Mix it well until it looks fluffy and lightly.

 

(3) Add flour into the butter batter. Mix it well

(4) Pout it into a 8” tin. Spread and press it evenly by our fingers or a spoon. Leave it in the fridge around 10 minutes. And then, send it to a pre-heated oven at 200C/390F for around 10 minute until the top become golden.

 

Steps of Cheese Cake

(1) Weight all ingredients

(2) Put all wet ingredients (cream cheese, egg, cream, vanilla extract, and lemon juice) into a bowl. Well-mixed all ingredients into a light yellow batter.

(3) Add sugar and cornstarch into the batter. Mix well again.

(4) Add blackberry filling gradually (3~4 times) into the batter. Use a baking spatula fold the batter gently.

 

Steps of Assembly

(1) Remove shortbread from the oven. Use a spoon to press it tightly again.

(2) Pour the blackberry batter over the shortbread crust. Send it back to the oven. Bake at 200C/390F for 10 minute. And then, turn the temperature to 170C/325F for another 30~35 minutes.
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: Insert the cake tester into the middle of the cake. If there is no batter left on it, it means it is ready.)

For cheesecake, I’ll leave it into the oven with an open door around 20 minutes. (Of course, the oven is switched off!) It can prevent the sink because the temperature difference.

 

The best taste of cheese cake is to leave in the fridge over 8 hours and EAT it. So, be patient. My friends and I ate this last night. Oh~~ It is so YUM. We were all full, but we still wanted more cheese cake. The sweet-sour flavor of blackberry balances the creamy cheese cake. It is so perfect with shortbread crust. Just one bite, you can have dense cheese cake, sweet-sour blackberry, and crispy shortbread. Look for something to bake for this weekend, try this one. Enjoy it.

Banana Cake with Cheese Cake Filling

 

I saw IKEA’s “#joyofthekitchen” advertisement. They show a banana loaf with cream cheese. It looks so tempting. So, yes. Why not?! I love banana cake. And my favorite cake is cheese cake. I did Brownie cheese cake. It is so YUM! I think that banana cake with cheese cake filling should be very delicious. So, let’s do it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oven Setting and Time: 180 degree C, around 50~60 minutes

This recipe is for one 8” tin

Steps of Banana Cake

(1) Weight all ingredients

(2) Well blended butter and sugar together until it is a fluffy light yellow mix

(3) Add eggs into the daughter and mix it again.

 

(4) Chopped 1 and half bananas into small pieces. Mix it with daughter around 30 seconds.

(5) Pour flour and baking powder into the batter. And mix it well.

(6) Use a spatula spoon to make sure every ingredient is well-mixed.

Steps of Cheese Cake Filling

(1) Weight all ingredients

(2) Well blended soft cheese and egg together

(3) Pour sugar and flour into batter. Well-mixed it. Set aside

 

Steps of Assembly

(1) Pour 2/3 cake batter into a 8” tin with either baking paper or greased surface.

(2) Pour all filling on the top of cake batter.

(3) Pour the rest of cake batter on the top of cheese cake filling

(4) Pre-heat the oven at 180 degree C around 10 minutes. Send the cake into oven. Wait around 50~60 minutes.

 

This is a good cake. But, cheesecake flavor is not so strong. I like brownie with cheesecake filling more than this one. Share it next time. If you are a cheese cake fan, you can try it. Maybe, you will love it. Enjoy it.