Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Cheesecake Cups / Cheese Cupcakes



I'm not sure what is the correct word for cheesecake baked in cupcakes liners.

I tried this nice recipe by Chef Asma recently. The pics above really do not do justice for these wonderfully creamy, not too sweet cheesecake cups. Here's the half recipe

CHEESE CUP CAKE

INGREDIENTS FOR THE CRUST :
240 gm Marie biscuits crumbs } Combined crumbs and melted butter.
250 gm melted butter } Press onto bottom of cup cake cases / liners

INGREDIENTS FOR CHEESE CAKE :
( A ) 250 gm cream cheese
38 gm castor sugar
75 ml UHT whipping cream
2 nos egg yolk
1/4 nos lemon rind
45 gm cake flour

( B ) 2 nos egg white
38 gm castor sugar
1/2 tbsp lemon juice
10 gm corn flour 

METHOD :
1. Beat cream cheese untill smooth, add in sugar and beat until creamy.
2. Add in UHT whipping cream and beat until smooth.
3. Add in egg yolk and mix well.
4. Add in all ingredients, mix well and leave aside.
5. Whisk egg white,sugar and lemon juice untill stiff. Add in corn flour into the
egg white.
6. Combined A& B , mix together, . Add in flavour or decoration.
7. Pour mixture onto biscuit crust and bake ( steambaked ) for 20 minutes - 30 minutes 


Yield 12 pieces of size M Solo cups. 
Top the cheesecakes with chocolate ganache or ready made fruit filling.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Last Day of Syawal 1430H


Today is the last day of Syawal, which reminds me to put up this pic of some of the cupcakes ordered by Sue's teacher for her raya open house gathering recently.
The funny thing about the pic above is that I've been getting remarks "deepavali cupcake" when anyone look at the pic. I think I've figured out what's wrong, the "pelita" are without "sumbu"; i.e. the wick holder! That's what happened when you were rushing to decorate at 2am in the morning........

Next time, I'll make it something like this


The second raya season, Eidul Adha will be on 27th November, insyallah..

Sunday, October 18, 2009

New workplace, new friends


At the young age of 21 and after completing her certification course, Emi already owns her own shop, thanks to her very supporting parents. The shop has now pay for itself when the government is renting it as a training center, including utilisation of all the equipment. So, with all the free time on her hands Emi is going off to an island to gain more experience.
These cupcakes with the images of the resort is her gift to her new friends there. Thanks and good luck Emi ! Sue, Yna & me wish we could be there too...