Daily writeup

星星帶我許過願望
那一年的夏　我的夢好長
你帶我飛翔

星星陪我看懂了迷惘和希望
那就帶我瘋　那就帶我狂
我追到了天堂

暮光燃燒了太陽
推著我浪跡天涯
愛是一道不滅溫暖的光

暮光燦爛了晚霞
直到夜都被照亮
我用微笑　迎接美麗的光
我找到了 你們肯定的目光

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Ventured into baking Oreo Cheesecake. Despite the praisings from my family that the cheesecake tastes good, I cant bring myself to like it. Prolly, cos I cant take the milk-ish and cheesy taste. Anyway, while baking, Im met with some mistakes like Im supposed to beat the whipping cream with electric beater till 70% stiff, BUT no matter how long I beat it or how fast I beat it, the liquid just cant form or bond into slight solid form! Oh well, something might have just gone wrong.

The recipe is as follows.

Oreo Cheesecake

Ingredients:

Biscuit Base:
110g (80g) digestive biscuit crumbs (I use Oreo crumbs)
40g (30g) unsalted butter, melted

Cheesecake Filling:
250ml whipping cream
250g cream cheese, room temperature
45ml milk
50g icing sugar
1 tbsp vanilla essence or rum (I use 1 tsp vanilla powder)
1 tbsp gelatine powder
10ml lemon juice
3 tbsp boiling water
8 oreo cookies (coarsely chopped)
4 oreo cookies (finely chopped)

Method:
1. Mix biscuit crumbs & melted butter together and press firmly onto the base of cake tin. Chill for 30 mins.
2. Beat whipping cream with electric beaters until 70% stiff or until mousse-like. Refrigerate for later use.
3. Double-boil gelatine, lemon juice & boiling water until totally dissolved. Keep warm.
4. Beat cream cheese, icing sugar, milk and vanilla essence until smooth & creamy.
5. Blend in gelatine solution until well combined.
6. Fold in whipped cream.
7. Pour 1/2 the cheese mixture onto the base. Chill for 15 mins.
8. Stir in finely chopped cookies into the other half of the mixture. Mix well.
9. Sprinkle coarsely chopped cookies on top of the first half of cheese mixture.
10. Pour in the other half of the cheese mixture.
11. Chill for 3 to 4 hours before serving. Decorate as desired.

Highlighted red is the one that I met up with some problems.

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Giving up some, just to acquire the other. In the process of sacrificing and receiving, you might realised you have lost far more than you get. On the other hand, the amount that you get might take some time to appear. Choices and opportunity cost.

A review on what Ive been doing lately;

Gakkai meetings, baking and nuaing at home. Just as simple as 1,2,3.

Need to pluck up my courage and REGISTER FOR DRIVING LESSONS ALREADY! (together with ashwini of course. haha)

And start going for yoga courses. Anyway, YAATRA MOVEMENT SUCKS. In terms of their service that is. Seriously, I dont understand what gone into me when I asked liyu to purchase the coupon for me (via groupon or tip-it). It isnt as popular, isnt as well-facilitated, isnt as cheap, and ISNT AS WELL-SERVICED as the rest. my goodness.

Fondant Cake Decoration

After my baking mission on Cookies and Icecream Cake, up next will be Cheesecake and muffin with Icing. Fondant cake is another cool baking activity that I want to do soon after these 4.

Easy Peasy Recipe for Icecream Cake

Banana Oreo Icecream Cake

Equipments:

1 Baking Roller

1 Big Bowl enough to contain 100g biscuit crumbs with a little bit of stirring and Icecream

1 Tablespoon

1 Small Pan to melt Butter/melt chocolate

Plastic film to form as a base of the cake tin

1 Cake Tin

Ingredients:

2 Bananas

1 Tub of Icecream

(For Disgestive Crumbs Base)

40g Unsalted Butter, melted

100g Oreo or Disgestive Biscuit

(For Chocolate Ganache)

Handful of Chocolate Chips, Semisweet

5tbsp milk

Making of Biscuit Base

1. Pour 100g Oreo Biscuit into a ziplocked bag or plastic bag. Use baking roller (dont know what it is supposed to be called), to hit it, roll against it, chop it. Until the oreo biscuits turns into chunky form, coarsely chopped.

2. Melt the unsalted Butter in a pan, low heat for a few seconds will do. Careful HOT!

(Anyway, I got my 3 fingers scorched by the stupid metal tablespoon -.-)

3. Pour the melted butter into the Big Bowl of Oreo Crumbs. Stir well.

4. Cover the Plastic Film on the base of the Cake Tin for easy pull after the Ice cream Cake is done.

5. Pour the mixture above the Plastic Film. Spread well. Use tablespoon to compress the Oreo Base. Leave it for 15-30 mins.

Icecream Cake

1. Melt the Tub of Icecream.

2. Chopped the 2 bananas into the above.

3. Lay some of the bananas above the fixated Oreo Base.

4. Pour the melted icecream above the bananas in the Cake Tin. Leave it in the freezer for around 1 hour.

5. Afterwhich, take out the icecream cake, lay the leftover bananas on top for decoration.

Chocolate Ganache

1. Pour 5tbsp of milk and handful of chocolate chips.

2. Put over the fire to heat it until it melts.

3. Pouring of the melted chocolate over the Tin of Icecream Cake topped with Bananas.

and tadah!!

Im back!

Was away from Blogspot for a year or so, switching to Wordpress, and only to realised that its better here in terms of the functions that suit me more. Nonetheless, its not that Wordpress hasnt been good. Its kind to me, like its posts security. I liked that. That is one unique function that Blogspot does not provide, at least for a year ago. Will need to explore again. Anyway, Hello Blogspot! Im back!