How to make Tiramisu chocolate mousse cheesecake, part 1
Saturday 3rd December 2011, Recipe 20111203
How to make Tiramisu chocolate mousse cheesecake, part 1 – an introduction
It was one of those days when I was watching someone make a Tiramisu when I had an epiphany for a chocolate cake. I thought to myself that the raw eggs would be risky to serve to children and, you know, the cheese they use … I forget the name … ‘Mascara Pony’ cheese I think. As I was conjuring up these ideas, then it hit me. I could convert the chocolate mousse into a chocolate cake. Skip the skip the raw eggs, … skip everything and what do you have … chocolate mousse, cheese cake and biscuits – the Tiramisu biscuits, a tiramisu style chocolate cheesecake. … Continue reading “How to make tiramisu chocolate mousse cheesecake, part 1 »
In a previous article I had left out the cheesecake pastry when I mentioned that the absorb-ability of the flour is an important criteria when choosing which flour to use for you cheesecake pastry. I ran a few experiments after I found butter leaking out of the dough when baking and I managed to stop the dough leaking butter during bake. Today, I managed to make my pastry soft and buttery and absorb all the butter flavour without leaking out of the dough during baking. The secret was to use a 50%:50% blend of highly absorbent bread flour and self-raising flour. Interesting isn’t it that we can use bread flour to make pastry. Actually the pastry comes out tender, buttery and slightly crispy. … Continue reading “How to make cheesecake pastry »
How to make homemade cream cheese from yogurt part 3
Tuesday 9th August 2011, Recipe 20110809
How to make homemade cream cheese from yogurt– an introduction
The last experiment for cream cheese on cheesecake was very sour and this time around I focused on the cheese making process. I believe I had solved most of the problems caused by the sour flavour. And you are lucky that I delay publishing this recipe by three days. On the day I made the cream cheese from yogurt, the taste was OK and at least it was not extremely sour. I did make it into a cheese cake and ate a sliced or two every day. Wonder of wonders, I found that the taste improved by the third day and it tasted like cream cheese. This is the first time I had seen, with my own eyes, homemade cheese ripen or mature and it did taste pretty good. In fact those who tasted it thought I had used store bought cream cheese until explained that it was made from yogurt. Even then, they thought that I had added yogurt into store bought cream cheese. … Continue reading “How to make homemade cream cheese from yogurt part 3 »
How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese part 2
Wednesday 22th July 2011, Recipe 20110722
How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese – an introduction
The last experiment on cheesecake (see previous cheesecake recipe) went very wrong but it was a good experiment it that I accidentally made a nice salad sauce from the yogurt cheese. This time around I tried extra water in the dough and baked at a lower temperature and after a second bake (What you did a second bake? … Yes… because I was trying to recover from another disaster) the pastry was quite edible. The cheese for the yogurt was better in that it did not flow out when the cheesecake was sliced. At least that problem solved! … Continue reading “How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese part 2 »
How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese
Wednesday 20th July 2011, Recipe 20110720
How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese – an introduction
I was looking at the pizza dough (see how to make homemade pizza bread with yeast ) and wondered if it could be converted to a pastry crust recipe then I thought that if I could convert it into a pastry and what should I do with the excess pastry dough? Furthermore, I had to make an interesting filling for the pastry. I had tried my hand at Indian Paneer (see how to make cheese indian paneer ) which is a very basic cheese and now wondered if I could improve on that too. So you are in luck today as I have several products in one article and you will learn how to make the worst cheesecake in the world – we learn from our mistakes. … Continue reading “How to make cheesecake with homemade yogurt cheese »
Here is my first attempt at making cheese cake. Actually, I thought about it and decided that the basic cheese cake is a sweet cheese on a pastry crust and that is what I tried on 7thMarch 2011. Unfortunately I was distracted by the food processor mixing the cheese and …. You can see the results:-
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