Chocolate Cheesecake Non bake

When i am free on a weekend, i will definately dropped by Phoon Huat and see what i might need to stock up and sometime ended buying ingredients i have no plans for.

And this time, with the inexpensive cream cheese sold there, i bought several tubes home to try. Found out that though they might not taste as good as Philadephia, however no complains as the price was much different from it.

*do remember to put your cheese out to thaw from the fridge or you will have problem blending the cheese into your mixtures.*

And so i present to everyone. Chocolate Cheesecake. Non-baked.!

Ingredients you will need for the base.


Always when making a cake that require whipped cream.
Whip them up to a soft consistency, as shown soft but enough to hold its shape when left alone.
Chill them immediately after whipping.



And now we will start making the base for the cheesecake, starting with the melting down of chocolate. Just make sure that they are melted throughly.


Meanwhile, if you can handle, beat the digestive biscuits into powder form while the chocolate sit on a bain-marie.


When the chocolate have melted and the biscuits have been crushed to its powdery form,
add the chocolate into the dry mix. (its okay that the chocolate is hot)


Here's the finished product.


Spoon them carefully into your desired mould, careful not to dirty the sides.
You don't want a messy looking cake. =)
The extra crumbs was pressed into a big tupperware. I am always making extras. no idea why.

Made the cheesecake batter in a jiffy due to the method used.

I really have to be quick. I was required to pour hot boiling sugar into a pure egg yolk batter which was already beaten at high speed to a paler shade.
Yes, the beater was still doing its job while i pour the sugar into the batter carefully.
Hence explain the lack of pictures.
You never forget to add lemon zest and a dash of lemon juice into a cheesecake mixture. Not all cheesecake batter of course. =)

This is where you achieve the refreshing taste for your cheesecake.

Not so 'je-lat' you know what i mean? ;)



Pour the batter equally into my desired mould and off they go for cooling down in the fridge!
So they will set faster for me to pour the chocolate mousse on top!

As the first set of whipped cream is already used up for the cheesecake mix, a second set is whipped up for the chocolate mousse.

For the mousse, i decided to use milk chocolate.

Bought chocolate nibs from Valrhona.

*chocolate nibs are roasted pieces of cocoa beans hence they are bitter but yet full of cocoa flavour.*




I added the chocolate into the whipped cream, making sure its not too hot or i will end up with melted cream instead of the initial whipped form.
Look at the gloss from the cream. =) was so happy with the results, cocoa nibs was added as the last step.


Filling the moulds with the mousse. =)



Lastly, i boiled some cream and pour them over more chocolate buttons, hence making a ganache.
This will go on top once the mousse is chilled lightly again in the fridge.


And here! You get your choco base, choco mousse, choco top and the cheesecake!
=)

meanwhile, email me @ lovee-cupakes@hotmail.com for this recipe! =)

Honestly, this post..
I have been keeping over a year!
I got married in 2009, made my own cupcakes for 2 days 2 night straight.
Up till the eve of the big day i was still touching up my cupcakes with my sister till 3am in the morning.
Even got a burnt mark on my arm from the hot tray!
Was so upset until i saw the finished products.
Any pain i had went away almost immediately~!

Here are the pictures~!
*NOT FOR SALE*









I wish i have lesser photos to update about this but i can't!
It was just normal wedding cupcakes, no fancy things but it got me all excited because nothing beats decorating my own ROM ceremony door gifts.
The cupcakes design showed a bride, a groom, their just married statement and a purple cupcake with double hearts.

=) I can only say i was the happiest woman that day.

Chocolate Peppermint Cookies.

If you recalled, i have a box peppermint chocolate sitting on the table while i was baking the chocolate caramel.
Well, i can't finish it and decided to bake some cookies with it. =)


the creaming method. a must. but never over fold ur flour mixture or u have ur cookie spreading during the baking.




putting the dough into littel blobs and adding a piece of broken chocolate to each cookie dough. =)



Baking and expanding in process. The reason i put them so apart was because i really have no idea if the recipe was to fail me. haha.

Cookies turns out fine. Thou i would have preferred it to be slightly sweeter. =)

Nope my picture didn't do justice to this delicious cookies. haha.