American Baked Cheesecake

Sometimes really running out of idea on what to buy for my mum, I have been searching and looking around, yet to decide. Just yesterday, make up my mind and decided, since she loves cheesecake so much, I should bake a cheesecake for her.

Went to buy all ingredients and get all baking stuff ready to start!



Ingredients
Base:
160g Digestive biscuit (finely crushed)
80g Unsalted butter (melted)

Filling:
(1)
625g Cream cheese
170g Sugar
(2)
40g Plain flour
(3)
4 Egg yolk
2 1/2 Egg white
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1 lemon zest
(4)
200g whipping cream
(5)
1 1/2 Egg white
20g Sugar

Method
Base:

1. Mix all the ingredients until well-blended.
2. Press it into a 10-inch springform pan and refrigerate for 15 minutes or until firm.

Filling:

1. Wrap the outside of the springform base with aluminium foil to prevent water doesn't seep in.
   
2. Cream (1) until light. Add in (2) mix until well-blended.
3. Add in (3), cream until smooth and light.
4. Add in (4), mix until well-combined.
5. Whisk (5) to a soft peak. Add it into cheese mixture and mix until well incorporated.
6. Pour cheese mixture over the prepared biscuit base.
7. Base in water bath at 160c for 75 mins or until golden brown
8. Allow to cool, keep refrigerated overnight.

Note
Cutting cheesecake:
Use hot water/over a fire to heat up your knife. Wipe it clean before cutting the cheesecake. Wipe the knife clean after every cut and repeat until the whole cake is cut.

Butter Cake From Aunty Yochana

Today I managed to buy flour and whipping cream from the shop to bake my milky bread. All my ingredients are ready on the table but realize that I have bought cake flour instead of bread flour. Oh gosh! I have to change my plan, can’t bake bread today.

So with other ingredients ready, plus cake flour and evaporated milk, here I am ready to bake butter cake again. Hopefully hubby doesn’t complain butter cake again!

This is my 3rd attempt baking butter cake using different recipe, the ingredient slightly different. Here are the ingredient listed below and adopted from Aunty Yochana.

Ingredients:

125 gm. Butter
125 gm. Cake Margarine
100 gm. Sugar
a pinch of salt
1 tsp. Vanilla Essence

90 gm. Egg Yolk
1 Tbsp. Evaporated milk

200 gm. Cake flour
5 gm. Baking powder

160 gm. Egg White
100 gm. Sugar

Note: For a more buttery taste, use 250 gm. Butter instead of 1/2 butter 1/2 margarine

Method:

(1) Beat butter, margarine, sugar, salt and vanilla essence until light and creamy.
(2) Add in the egg yolk one at a time and beat until creamy. Add in evaporated milk.
(3) Fold in sieved cake flour and baking powder.
(4) Whisk egg white and sugar to a soft peak and fold gently into the creamed butter mixture.
(5) Pour into a 20 cm. round tin and bake at 175C for about 45 mins. or until cooked.

Butter Cake From Baking Mum

Come across with another butter cake recipe from one of my favourite site - Baking Mum, and would like to have a try. Her lovely butter cake really gives me motivation to try out as her recipe looks very promising and easy to follow, not that complicated. Most important is in 'grams', not measurement cup! I don't hate using the measurement cup, only I have to invest one.

Here is my freshly bake butter cake, my hubby loves it so much, so does Wayne. A big accomplishment for the day!



Here to share with you her butter cake recipe.

Ingredients:
250 gm butter
200 gm caster sugar
6 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
300 gm self-raising flour (sifted)
½ to 3/4 cup of evaporated milk

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 160°C.
2. Beat the butter with the caster sugar until white and fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time and mix well. Then add is vanilla essence and evaporated milk and mix well.
3. Lastly fold in sifted flour into the butter mixture and mix well. Pour into a greased and lined cake tray and bake for about an hour.

Yummy Banana Cake

Here I come across with this link - Baking Mum, where she shares her baking experience and recipe. One of the recipes that I picked for the day is to bake a banana cake.

In case you only want the banana cake recipe and not others, so I listed out the recipe from her blog for your convenience. Yeah!

Ingredients:
180 gm. Butter
180 gm. Fine sugar (I cut down to 150 gm)
2 nos. Extra large Eggs - beaten lightly
250 gm. Cake flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. Bicarbonate of Soda
220 gm. Bananas - mashed
50 gm. Dairy whip cream (I use evaporated milk)
1/2 tsp. Banana essence (I replace with 1 tsp vanilla essence)
2 bananas - slice

Method:
(1) Cream butter and sugar till light and creamy.
(2) Pour in eggs gradually and beat till creamy.
(3) Add in whip cream, mashed bananas and banana essence and mix well.
(4) Add in cake flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and beat for a while only.
(5) Pour into an 8" round tray, and arrange sliced bananas on top.
(6) Bake at 175C for about 50 to 60 mins. or until cooked.

I followed the ingredients exactly, except I did turn some into muffin. Here is the banana cake that I have baked this afternoon.



I like the texture of the cake, is just so soft, fluffy and moist! This is the recipe that I was looking for and it just suits my taste. I just loves it so much and will definitely bake again!

Here are the muffins I mention just now. It takes about 20minutes to bake at 175C. It turns out well either!



What's for next? I target to bake bread. I have not decide what type of bread but would like to have a try!

My Very First Butter Cake

Here is one of my do-list that is to bake a cake. Search through the internet and found a most easy way and step to bake a butter cake. Yeah! Shop for all the ingredient, follow the instruction, then here you go - My very first butter cake that I have baked!



I am still a beginner and lots more to learn about baking. I am quite satisfied and here the final product, it looks more like a loaf of bread to me! Quite success, not too bad, only the outer layer little hard as when I take it out from the oven.

After cool on racks for 15 minutes, cut and taste it, texture still alright, smooth and milky but a little dry, most important is editable.



I am now addicted in baking, my next target will be Banana cake!