Baked Cheesecake Attempt!

Ever had cooking/baking blues?  I'm havin' one right now or some benevolent power is telling me that I should stick to 'Chilled Cheesecake'...  or I should just master the use of the newly installed oven :P

Anyway, it still taste good after removing the burnt sides.  You may have better luck than me with the oven.

Baked Cheesecake

Ingredients:

• 1kg Cream Cheese
• 1 1/2 cups Sugar
• 1 tbsp Corn Starch
• 3 tbsp Flour
• 3 pc Lemons
• 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
• 5 Whole Eggs
• 2 Egg Yolks
• 1/4 cup Heavy Cream
• 450g Digestive Biscuits
• 125g Butter

Steps:

1. Butter the spring form tray.
2. Crush the Digestive Biscuits and mix in Butter.

3. Press the mix unto the tray and put aside. Refrigerate 1 hour.

4. Preheat the oven at 350°C.
5. Mix the Sugar, Flour and Corn Starch.
6. Grate the Lemon skin (Zest), and squeeze the lemon.
7. Beat in Cream Cheese, Lemon Zest and 3 tbsp Lemon Juice, and Vanilla Essence until smooth.
8. Mix in the Heavy Cream.
9. Pour mixture into the trays.
10. Lower the heat to 180°C and bake for 1 Hour.

11. Put aside to cool, then refrigerate for at least an hour.

Enjoy :)

Chocolate Oreo Truffles

Have some cravings for chocolate? and you are also an Oreo fan. You can try out this simple and easy recipe.

Chocolate Oreo Truffles

Ingredients:

• 4 tubes of plain Oreo biscuit packs (approx 400g total).
• 250g Cream Cheese
• 250 - 300g Semi-Sweet Cooking Chocolate

Steps:

1. Take the Oreos out of its packaging.  If you bought the ones with cream, just scrap them off.
2. Crush the biscuits finely.  Keep a little aside.

3. Mix the Cream Cheese into the crushed biscuits.

4. Place your Chocolate into a steel bowl.
5. Heat up a pot of boiling water and place your bowl on the boiling water.  Wait till the chocolate completely melts.

6. Pinch a little from the Cream Cheese Oreo and shape them into balls.  You may use a teaspoon as a guide.
7. Dip the balls into the melted chocolate a little at a time and use forks to pick them up and place it on a tray.
8. Sprinkle a little of the crushed biscuits on top of it.
9. Refrigerate the balls for 4 hours.  Best served cold.

Ideas:

• Try chopped almonds to mix in or use it to sprinkle on the top.  Roast it a little first.
• Try using white chocolate / chocolate rice to decorate the balls instead of using Oreos.
• The ball size depends on your choice.

Enjoy ;)