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Home baked Cheesecake Challenge : Flavour no. 37 Oreo Cheesecake

I have a friend whom I see only once a year, she has 4 children and I thought of welcoming them with my cheesecake challenge. I already did chocolate cheesecake so what flavour would the adult and children love to taste?

Well, my sons when they were young they love Oreo cookies and I also like it.. I guess it’s one of the world’s favourite cookies, don’t you think? no rolling of eyes please! I know, chocolate, orange, peanut butter lick it all hahaha…

here we go…OREO cheesecake 🙂 for Flavour no. 37 yay!

Ingredients:

Crust:

12 Oreo cookies, crushed

3 tbsp butter

Filling:

3 pkg (300g) Philadelphia cream cheese

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 cup whipping cream

1/2 cup plain yoghurt

1 egg plus 4 egg yolk

1 tsp citroen essence (optional)

1/2 cup crushed Oreo cookies

Directions:

Pre heat oven Gas mark #3

Mix butter and Oreo cookies, press onto the spring-form pan. Set aside

Mix cream cheese and sugar,beat at medium speed ( I always make sure that the cheese is at room temperature for easy mixing) Add citroen essence,yoghurt and whipping cream. Add one egg then one egg yolk at a time. Mix thoroughly. Divide the mixture into two. Pour the first mixture onto the prepared pan, add the crushed Oreo cookies on top, Pour the remaining half of the mixture. Wrap the bottom of the pan with aluminium foil, place unto a bigger pan with hot water, bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Turn off the heat, leave the oven door slightly open for another 30 minutes before removing it.Let it cool for another 30 minutes. Chill for 4 hours or overnight before topping.

Fresh from the oven..no crack! 🙂

no crack!

layers of Oreo cookies

My chef kevin said, be brave in transferring the cheesecake from the pan to the plate, so every time I do it, I remember him and it’s like a chant..be brave.be brave 🙂

a bit of the crust left but otherwise the cake is in one piece!

I didn’t have the chance to cut it and take a photo, after topping it,I put it in the box to my friends’ hand.

Here’s the close up photo

yum!

I also did a mini version like a mini mouse…trying to be creative somehow 🙂

An Oreo cheesecake resembling a lava cake 🙂

Ladies, I must say this is really a sweet overload!

Cheers,

jamilamimi

August 22, 2014
Home baked Cheesecake Challenge – Flavour # 35 Pomegranate Cheesecake

What happened when the big 5’Os meet 6’Os? Well, either you run because you wanted to belong to the so young group (below fifty) or join the club and be one of the beauty beyond fifties rocking :-)hahaha I bet you’re smiling huh! just kidding!

One of my beautybeyondfiftiy ladies invited us for her husband 6…and counting bday get together. Of course, I readily looked at my fridge and think what flavour I should bake? I found Pomegranate, heaven! I like this fruit including the seeds 🙂

Pomegranate – one of my favourite fruits

I cut three pieces, hence I don’t have a juicer, I just boiled it with 3 tablespoon water and 1/4 cup sugar. And de-seeds it with a strainer then add 1 tsp of cornstarch. The puree is enough for one mini cheesecake only.

pomegranate puree

enough only for a mini cheesecake

I used Mascarpone (Italian cheese) so its fluffy and soft.

Flavour # 35 Pomegranate Mini Cheesecake

Some serving suggestion before the real b-day party 🙂

i made different sizes, I usually set aside..cup cake size for tasting

i use fresh pomegranate for topping

heaven combination with a cup of espresso

Yummy sweet fluffy and soft cheesecake

Photo credit: Govs Villanueva

Thank you ladies and gentlemen for the wonderful evening. God bless!

Cheers,

jamilamimi

August 8, 2014
Home baked Cheesecake Challenge-Double 3 for a triple treat :Flavour # 33 Pineapple-Mango-Coconut Cheesecake

Here’s another batch of my official taster 🙂 I really do have good friends who can spend a day just having tea and Cheesecake. We spent 8 hours of good conversation, drowning ourselves with home-made tea concoction over an experimental home-baked cheesecake flavour #33, Yay!

Flavour # 33 Mango-pineapple Coconut Cheesecake

Flavour#33 Pineapple Mango Coconut Cheesecake

I did two variations, one with toasted coconut

and one with a sweetened coconut and fresh mango bits on top

and I also did, a no bake Cheesecake and matcha green tea roll cheesecake, so it’s really a treat for everyone, or should I say..

” Sweet overload” 🙂

Ingredients:

Crust:

1/2 cup crushed digestive biscuits

1/2 cup roasted coconut flakes (desiccated)

3 tbsp sugar

1/3 cup butter

Filling:

3 pkgs (300 g each ) Philadelphia cream cheese

1 cup sugar

2 tsp vanilla powder

4 eggs

1/2 cup whipping cream

1/2 cup sour cream

1/8 tsp lemon

a pinch of salt

Toppings:

roasted coconuts

sweetened coconuts

fresh mango puree and cut bits

pineapple chunks

Directions:

Pre-heat oven Gas mark #3

Mix biscuits,coconuts,sugar and butter. Press onto the springform pan (i used different sizes). Set aside

Cream the cheese at room temperature, add sugar slowly while beating at medium speed. Add one egg at a time.Combine mixture of whipping cream,sour cream and vanilla powder,add it to the cream cheese mixture, add a pinch of salt and continue mixing until smooth and well combined. Pour onto the prepared pan. Bake at 1 hr, let it cool for another 30 minutes, leaving the oven door slightly ajar. (sudden change of temperature will result to cracking in the middle). Remove and let it cool for another one hour and chill for another 4 hrs or overnight before topping and serving.

hmm yummy but so sweet

Ladies, even though there’s a lot of sweet indulgence ( tummy rumbling) we manage to give a sweet smile!

HAPPY NATIONAL CHEESECAKE EVERYONE!!!!

Cheers,

Jamilamimi

July 31, 2014
Home-baked Cheesecake Challenge – Flavour no. 29 Baklawa (Baklava) Cheesecake

It’s Ramadan once again, a time of fasting with a festive atmosphere. I choose one of the popular sweets usually found on the table after Iftar, theBaklawa sweets.

Baklawa or Baklava

I google and found that it is possible to make Baklawa cheesecake. Actually, it is Baklava , a mediterranean sweets made of stacks of phyllo, honey and nuts.

I am guessing that Baklawa (fillo) is an arabic version as opposed to Baklava (phyllo) maybe!

Anyway, here’s my trial recipe, which actually turns out good ( at least to my taste) but you can always alter it according to your taste 🙂

Flavour # 29 Baklawa Cheesecake

Ingredients:

Crust

12 layers of baklawa (Fillo) i used butter spray instead of brushing it with clarified butter

Filling:

2 (300 g) Philadelphia cream cheese

1/2 cup honey

2 eggs plus 1 egg yolk

1/3 cup fresh lemon juice

1 tsp vanilla

250 oz thick cream

assorted nuts (crushed) anything that you like to add, I added 2 tbsp cinnamon and 3 tbsp brown sugar

Syrup:

1 cup honey

1/2 cup lemon juice

1/2 cup water

1 tsp vanilla

Topping:

12 phyllo sheets, stacked in 3 layers

assorted nuts with cinnamon and brown sugar according to your taste, I added about 2 tbsp.

Defrost the Phyllo for 4 hours without removing it from the package. Prepare cheese mixture before opening and spreading the phyllo in wax paper and cover it with wet towel to prevent dryness and tearing it.

Pre heat oven to Gas mark # 3

Mix cream cheese with honey, alternately adding one egg at a time. add vanilla, continue beating at medium speed and add thick cream.Mix thoroughly.Divide into two part.

Mix crushed nuts with cinnamon and brown sugar

Place one Phyllo sheet on the springform pan, spray with butter add another one and spray again until 12 sheets. Pour the cheese mixture, spread assorted nuts and pour the remaining cream cheese part, top again with mixture of assorted nuts.

Bake for one hour. cool for another 2 hours and refrigerate for another 4 hours.

Meanwhile, cut 24 Phyllo sheets according to your pan shape. Stack 12 layers (each layer spray with butter) add mixture of assorted nuts and another 12 layers, cut into any shape you like and bake for 30 minutes.

Bring to boil honey,lemon and water, reduced the heat and continue mixing for about 5 minutes.

without the fillo toppings

The thing that I missed here…I should have drizzle the Phyllo sheets with mixed honey while it was still hot and leave it for another 20 minutes to stick together before putting it on top of the cheesecake.

drizzle honey while hot

hmmm i love nuts!

without honey

with lemon honey

another way of fillo decor

Oh well, there’s another chance ladies,till next baking time 😉

Cheers,

Jamilamimi

July 5, 2014
Home-baked Cheesecake Challenge – Flavour # 28 Mango Cheesecake

Another fruit in season…Mango! Surprisingly the mango cheesecake I did was a hit and I love it too! So Yummy, One thing good, I only did a mini version, If it was the original size, I am sure, my tummy was jumping with joy 🙂

Mango Mini Cheesecake

Flavour No. 28 – Mango Mini Cheesecake

Ingredients:

Crust:

12 pieces Digestive Cookies crushed

1/2 cup almond meal

6 pieces dates

2 tbsp butter melted

Cheesecake Filling:

1 300 g Philadelphia cream cheese

1 cup Mango Puree

1 cup Thick cream

1 tsp vanilla powder

2 eggs

3/4 cup sugar

Mango Puree:

1 big mango

1/2 cup mango juice

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 tsp cornstarch

Topping:

fresh mango sliced and cut according to your liking

fresh mint leaves

strawberry

Pre heat oven, Gas mark # 3

Mix crushed biscuits with almond meal,sugar,dates and butter. Pressed it into the baking pan. I used a glass to get a uniform thickness on the sides. Set it aside.

Mix the cream cheese with sugar,vanilla and add egg one at a time. Beat at medium speed,add thick cream and mango puree. Pour into the prepared baking pan. Tap it slowly to remove air bubbles.

Bake for 1 hour, slightly open the door for another 30 minutes before turning off the oven. Let it cool for another 30 minutes inside the oven and another 30 minutes outside. Refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight before topping it with mango puree and real fruits (optional).

Mango Puree – mix all ingredients and let it boil, reduce the heat and simmer for another 10 minutes or until it thickens to your liking.

Serving Suggestions:

top with fresh mango puree

Slice into small pieces and top with real mango fruit.

with dates at the bottom and top with mango puree and fresh strawberry.

box it as a gift to your sweet friends 🙂

Cheers,

Jamilamimi

June 28, 2014
Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning

my first attempt to bake cheese cake

2014 – beginning of testing my baking skills again. 🙂 It’s been awhile, my sons grew up,got busy at work and travelling.

I am challenging myself to improve in baking and photography.

second attempt – Oreo cheese cake

Keep on trying until (almost) perfect!

jamilamimi

January 5, 2014