Blueberry Swirl Cheesecake

I made this as a farewell gift to the administrator in my younger son's school. We get along quite well and I will surely miss her.

Oreo Cheesecake

A friend ordered this oreo cheesecake for his ex-boss. He tried it before and really loved it. I have to admit, I don't know how to take the cheesecake out of the tin nicely. The sides are not smooth at all, really rough and jagged-looking. How do people make them so smooth? But, as my friend said, it's a 'damn good oreo cheesecake' :)

This ex-boss that he ordered the cake for must have been a very very good employer. Separately, a colleague of my friend's ordered some chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting for her too as it was her birthday. If I'm not mistaken, I think this lady has retired for a while. And to have your ex-staff still remember your birthday and send you gifts, she must've been one special employer!

Mango Cheesecake

I have been wanting to make this mango cheesecake since I had it in Singapore when my sister made it. The base is made with Gingernut biscuits instead of the usual digestive ones. I love the taste of the ginger with the mango, the taste just complements each other so magnificently! Anyway, when my sister made this according to the original recipe, the whole cake was rather soft, like "lam pat pat" like that. This time, due to lack of ingredient, I kinda "tweaked" it a bit and the cake turned out to be more solid. Heh.....but as my sister said, it is more fattening!! =P

Happy Birthday, Sister Number 3!

True to my word this time - I made these never-tried-before cupcakes in time to honour sister number 3's birthday. I chose this recipe because I think she would really enjoy these! Oh yeah, each time I will endeavour to choose a recipe that I think birthday-sister would enjoy!

Black-bottom cupcakes

i.e. dense chocolate cupcake with a dollop of cheesecake
topped with cream-cheese frosting - yummy yum yum!

Picture shown also includes unfrosted cupcakes - to show how they look underneath. To be honest, I really wasn't sure how it would turn out as I was baking them. The chocolate cake batter looked more like cookie dough prior to baking, and my cheesecake batter wouldn't become smooth and fluffy, like how the recipe said.

But turns out, husband loved, loved them!

Happy Birthday, Sister number 3! Hope you're having such a wonderful time, which explains why I haven't been able to get ahold of you all day!!!!

Baked Mango Cheesecake

Sister No. 4 is visiting with her family, so I made this mango cheesecake. Not because she likes mango cheesecake but because I've been meaning to try out this recipe which I got from the Food & Travel magazine.

The base is the usual digestive biscuits with melted butter. But this recipe required it to be baked for 10 minutes. I have to say this baked recipe is much better than the chilled one that I made a few months back. I will definitely make this one again.

Chilled Mango Cheesecake

This chilled mango cheesecake has a base of gingernuts. And we think this goes very well with the mango. Sister no. 3 was down here visiting and she loved it!

Say Cheese(cakes)!

Yes, I seem to be going through a cheesecake phase. I made this baked blueberry cheesecake last week. Berries again, you say. Well, there was a discount on blueberries in the supermarket, so what better time to make something with blueberries? But I tell you, I think next time I'll just buy the puree straight. It's a lot of work straining those berries through a sieve!



And yesterday, I made an oreo cheescake. This one is just a chilled one, no baking whatsoever. There's whipped cream added to it, so it's very light, not dense like a normal cheesecake. I know my photography is very bad, but do not let looks deceive you!! Both cheesecakes were very well-received!

Very Berry Lemon Cheesecake

Ah, one of the few non-cupcake posts! So far. I made this lemon cheesecake a few days ago for my dad. I've been baking a lot of chocolate cakes lately and he's not a fan. So I thought I'd make him something that he likes. It's essentially a lemon cheesecake, no berries whatsoever inside the cake. I just added the berries on top. The recipe actually calls for gelatine but I put thickened cream instead. So it's kinda soft but still yummy, without the gelatine-y taste. At first, I put strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. But because the cheesecake was quite soft and the strawberries quite heavy, the whole thing just went 'plop'! hehehhe. So I had to take the strawberries out. My dad enjoys it very much without the berries though :)