May 09, 2008
A breakfast of cheesecake
It's Thursday which is Giffy's unofficial blog about food day. Now with pictures!
So, today we are not having anyone over to dinner. Hock and shorror, I know. Instead we are going to see a couple of one act plays, one of which will be starring my friend, Neid. Anyhoo, I still wanted to make something for tonight (Beau is actually making dinner, Japanese curry- rice :) and since I've been wanting baked cheesecake and haven't really seen much in the way of baked cheesecake in Cork (you don't see in that much in Wellington either). I though I would continue to work on conquering my fear of new foods (I'll try bread soon! Maybe this weekend) and try and bake one myself.
I looked at quite a few different recipes and settled on two that I would use as my base, a chocolate one from the Kraft website that uses philedelphia's and a berry one that uses marscapone. I mixed and matched using what I could find at the shops and what I had on hand and last night I made this:
I'm not completely happy with it. It is delicious, don't worry about that! It's just, I can make it better, so I'm going to try to again, maybe next week.
Things I want to change
I want to actually try using tinned cherries, which is what I meant to do this time, but I forgot to buy them somehow, so used strawberries we already had in the house. I will use more chocolate next time, maybe double! I will try it with marscapone as the taste is a bit more mild. It is more expensive though, so maybe I'll try half and half. I will add a dish of water to the bottom of the oven. The Kraft website (they have a whole section on cheesecake baking tips) says this may prevent the cracking on the top (it won't be caused by stirring too fast and over aerating, I did it all by hand baby). I'll add some milk when I make the base, it was too crumbly and didn't hold together well. I'll also maybe leave it another 5 min in the oven.
If you click on the picture, I've posted the recipe that I did use on my new flickr photostream that I made just for food photos. There are also photos there of one of my lunches this week and pinwheel date scones I made using Anna's recipe, except I added dates. Mm-mm!
In other news. Beau has theoretically been paid his *first* pay, but the check will not clear until next Tues. WTF????!!! We are both somewhat annoyed, but make ourselves feel better by planning to visit with J-j and G in London on the long weekend. I am *so* going shopping ;)
Point of Fashion: I thought it was going to be warmer
Current obession: how my food photos will be received