I seem to bake a lot of cheesecakes... but they never seem to be able to taste as nice as those yummy ones I get to eat in cafes. Maybe it is time to go for classes or do more research.
Anyway, this time round I made a variation of the normal cheesecake for my sister's birthday.
Yesh... Blueberry Cheesecake... She has been bugging me for months or years. This recipe was taken from the 'Essentials of Baking' by Williams-Sonoma. What I love about this is the hazelnut base. But what I dislike about it is the taste of the almond essence. I wish I had followed my heart and not put it in instead. Being someone who dislikes the taste of almond, the taste of the almond essence was too overwhelming. I couldn't even taste the cheese. Eeks.... But I love the crust... :) My tasters felt the cake was quite okay. If I am going to attempt it again, I will definitely leave the almond essence out!The outlook of the cake wasn't perfect with the snow powder not evenly distributed due to the lack of proper equipments :P But I love it! Simple and nice. I wanted to deco it with writings on a white choco board but somehow the white choco did not melt nicely.. not sure what went wrong... wasted my $5 worth of white choco. But I really have been having problems melting my choco recently... seriously need to find out what is wrong.
2 comments:
Wow! Nice! It's been a while since i look at your blog and you have updated sooo much! I'm lacking motivation & interest to bake this year.. haha.. partly due to 'mood swings' which i'm still trying to adjust :) keep it up girl! you can fulfil ur dream one day
I think baking keeps me sane at times. :P Maybe baking can improve your 'mood swings'?!? Haa... we can arrange for one baking session one of these days la. Jiayou! :)
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