Wednesday, August 05, 2009
I SUCK at time management. I chose the worst timing ever to bake a cake.
Hmm, here is what happened. It was a Thursday (i think) and a few days ago i had chanced upon a beautiful raspberry cheesecake recipe with gorgeous pictures that promised of a delicious cake. and so bright morning Thursday I trooped off to the supermarket and rounded up all my neccessities. Oh, and i had just picked up 2 baskets of VERY ripe strawberries from the boy's, that was one of the main reasons to make this cake.
OH and the fact that i've been keeping busy with my shop making such wonderful miniature cakes, and NONE were for eating. :(
and so i got to work, very psyched by the tantalising baking photos. SO, i had to make strawberry puree first. It was my first time ever, but it didn't turn out that bad. TEDIOUS though!
First I cut up and cored the strawberries, trashing some uberripe ones meanwhile.
and then you gotta slowly boil (with some water) and mash them at the same time, to coax all that juicy syrup out of the berries.
Because the berries' skins were so full of seeds, I had to strain the puree so that nobody eating the cake would bite onto a very disturbing hard seed.
voila, strawberry puree! oh and pardon the photos, when you're peppered in flour and have only one hand to take photos and horrid kitchen lighting, this is the best i can manage. haha.
whipping cream cheese (EXPENSIVE SHITSSS) and freshly-ground sugar together.
mixing in self-crushed graham crackers crumbs for the cake base.
YUMMM, all that's left is to pour the creamy cheesecake batter into the heavenly-smelling crust!
but bloody hell.
what is THIS SHITTTTTTTTT.
okay lar i did manage to salvage it in the end, by spooning some mixtures into muffin cups and baking them again. and i also whipped up a new graham crust and used some of the cheesecake batter for the new (albeit VERY much smaller) cake.
it is SO HARD to bake with microwave ovens! the many convection/microwave etc etc modes just bloody confuses me!! i just looked away for a while and the next minute my beautiful-looking cheesecake had melted into a greasy mess.
and my mommy made strawberry juice with the leftover puree.
now the cheesecake isn't half made, though the texture is very much more like a cheesecake mousse instead haha. But there's even a homemade rich chocolate ganache spread on top of it, say YUMMM. hahah.
there's so much of it left in my fridge, c'mon i wanna share! :)
Hmm, here is what happened. It was a Thursday (i think) and a few days ago i had chanced upon a beautiful raspberry cheesecake recipe with gorgeous pictures that promised of a delicious cake. and so bright morning Thursday I trooped off to the supermarket and rounded up all my neccessities. Oh, and i had just picked up 2 baskets of VERY ripe strawberries from the boy's, that was one of the main reasons to make this cake.
OH and the fact that i've been keeping busy with my shop making such wonderful miniature cakes, and NONE were for eating. :(
and so i got to work, very psyched by the tantalising baking photos. SO, i had to make strawberry puree first. It was my first time ever, but it didn't turn out that bad. TEDIOUS though!
First I cut up and cored the strawberries, trashing some uberripe ones meanwhile.
and then you gotta slowly boil (with some water) and mash them at the same time, to coax all that juicy syrup out of the berries.
Because the berries' skins were so full of seeds, I had to strain the puree so that nobody eating the cake would bite onto a very disturbing hard seed.
voila, strawberry puree! oh and pardon the photos, when you're peppered in flour and have only one hand to take photos and horrid kitchen lighting, this is the best i can manage. haha.
whipping cream cheese (EXPENSIVE SHITSSS) and freshly-ground sugar together.
mixing in self-crushed graham crackers crumbs for the cake base.
YUMMM, all that's left is to pour the creamy cheesecake batter into the heavenly-smelling crust!
but bloody hell.
what is THIS SHITTTTTTTTT.
okay lar i did manage to salvage it in the end, by spooning some mixtures into muffin cups and baking them again. and i also whipped up a new graham crust and used some of the cheesecake batter for the new (albeit VERY much smaller) cake.
it is SO HARD to bake with microwave ovens! the many convection/microwave etc etc modes just bloody confuses me!! i just looked away for a while and the next minute my beautiful-looking cheesecake had melted into a greasy mess.
and my mommy made strawberry juice with the leftover puree.
now the cheesecake isn't half made, though the texture is very much more like a cheesecake mousse instead haha. But there's even a homemade rich chocolate ganache spread on top of it, say YUMMM. hahah.
there's so much of it left in my fridge, c'mon i wanna share! :)
can you hear the soft swoosh of the butterflies' wings. 12:07 AM.
