Friday, July 31, 2009

Triple layered cheesecake

After baking for 1 year plus of birthday cakes, i'm not the least tired of doing it over and over again. However, sometimes it make me wonder whether the audiences are tired? Definitely my cakes are not comparable to the bakeries, and they are not of consistent standard, sometimes they are good and sometimes just edible. One thing for sure, the ingredients are fresh and no unnecessary addictives.





Naked cake without decoration (yet)

Whenever there is a birthday approaching, I like to think "what design would the birthday boy/girl like?", "what type or flavour is suitable and to their liking?", etc. I would go through these questions many times in my head, until i decided on the best suitable one for the birthday boy/gal.





Whilst preparing the birthday cake for T, he asked me the same question as he asked same time last year "Do u bake the birthday cake to satisfy your own (baking) desire or to bake the cake specially for my birthday?" The answer is both. I won't be baking if either of the reason are not present, right?





Anyway back to the birthday cake i made for T, the recipe was taken from Y3K Delicious Cakes with some modifications done. So coincident that the cake i did last year was triple chocolate, and this year is also a triple, but a cheesecake. The original recipe is for a 9' cake tin, but i only have a 7' cake tin. I only realised after preparing all the filling ingredients. So now i'm left with 1/4 portion of the cheese filling in the fridge, waiting to be bake into something else.


Ingredients/ Method:

Base
8 pieces of digestive biscuits (about 110g)
60g butter, softened

Filling
750g cream cheese, at room temperature
90g caster sugar
30g cornflour, sieved
300ml whipping cream
4 eggs, lightly beaten

A: 100g chocolate, melted
2 tbsp cocoa powder, sieved

B: zest of 1 lemon
juice of 1 lemon
1 tsp vanilla essence

C: 1 3/4 tbsp instant coffee powder, dissolve in 3/4 tbsp hot water


Decorations
1/2 cup whipping cream, whipped
1 tbsp cocoa powder
assorted fresh fruits

1. For base, crush the biscuits and mixed well with the butter. Press onto 7' loose base tin. Put into fridge until ready to use. Wrap outer tin with aluminium foil.
2. Preheat oven at 140 deg C.
3. Beat cream cheese, sugar and cornflour until smooth and creamy. Add in whipping cream. Lastly, add in eggs. Divide mixtue into 3 portions.
4. Stir ingredient (A) into one portion of cream cheese. Pour onto base and steam bake for 30 mins.
5. Stir ingredient (B) into one portion of cream cheese. Pour onto chocolate layer which has baked through. Steam bake for another 30 mins.
6. Stir ingredient (C) into one portion of cream cheese. Pour onto lemon layer which has baked through. Steam bake for another 30 mins.
7. Turn off oven and leave cake in oven with door closed for 30 mins.
8. Remove cake from oven and leave to cool completely. Cover cake and chill for at least 6 hours or overnight.
9. Remove cake from tin. Decorate as desired.




6 comments:

Kitchen Corner said...

Your birthday cheesecake absolutely wonderful! It looks better than the one I bought! Hey.. I must keep this recipe and make it for my friends birthday next month. Thanks for sharing!

In a CakeBox said...

This cheesecake recipe is a keeper! I dun mind to make it again ;-) Just make sure the cheesecake is chilled enough before serving it. I'm sure your friend will like it.
Cheers,

Passionate About Baking said...

Hi quizzine,
Wow, gee! Your cheesecake does look really nice! It's exactly the same as in the recipe book! I just love that book from Amy Heng, don't you? I've baked this before too! But I kept it rather simple without frosting. Your simple designs are really very nice too!
Btw, was Zach gonna punch a hole in the cake? Hahaha...

In a CakeBox said...

Hi Jane,
Yes, i love Amy Heng's book which come with alot of illustrations. So far this is the 2nd recipe i used, and they are both good! Tks for your compliments (pai seh ;p).
Little zakris can be 'violent' but luckily he has YET to punch down any cake so far, but there's alot of licking and sneaking everytime. Cross my fingers ;-)
Cheers,

Talita said...

Looks gorgeous!! Really yummy!

In a CakeBox said...

Talita, tks & they're yummy!