Hi!
As I have
stated in the earlier post, I have been experimenting a lot with cheesecakes.
When is the best time to experiment? During celebrations of course! My girl
Amal just joined the 26 y/o club a couple of weeks back. As an adult, I really have trouble
thinking of things to get my friends. Mind you most of them make more money than I do
and can afford more things than me (I am still a poor student remember? :p) I
always have and still believe that the best gifts are either 1)experiential or
2) homemade. So I chose the latter of course because with our busy schedules
there are no way we could have gone anywhere adventurous.
Three years
back, I made Amal an Oreo Cheesecake and this year I though long and hard
about what flavours she may like. Chocolates! Making chocolate cakes/chocolate
cheesecakes are too mainstream! So I decided to make S’mores Cheesecake instead
because why not? There were only 5 of us I made a smaller version of
the cake. I simply use 1/3 of the recipe and bake the cake in a 6" pan.
S'mores Cheesecake
3
sticks of cream cheese (750g), room temperature
3
eggs
2
tablespoon of all-purpose flour
1
cup sugar
¼
cup milk
a dash of vanilla essence
1
¼ cup of finely crushed graham crackers
¼ to
½ cup of melted butter
½
of 165g Cadbury Chocolate Bar cut into chunks
Topping
½
of 165g Cadbury Chocolate Bar (melted)
Marshmallows
Digestive
biscuit chunks
- Preheat oven to 325 degree Fahrenheit (300 degrees if using a dark non-stick spring form) the insides of a 9-inch spring form with parchment paper. Set aside
- In a bowl, mix the crushed graham crackers and melted butter together. Press firmly on the bottom and the sides of spring form.
- Bake for 10 minutes and set aside.
- In the meantime, mix the cream and sugar together using an electric mixer until well blended.
- Add in the flour and continue beating.
- Add in milk and vanilla essence and eggs and beat until combined.
- Using a spoon, mix in the chunks of chocolate bar into the batter.
- Pour the cream cheese batter onto the baked crust.
- Bake for 35 -45 minutes. The middle should still jiggle while the sides are slightly firm to touch.
- Let cool in the oven.
- Once cooled, let it set in the fridge for 3 hours minimum.
To decorate;
- Melt the remaining chocolate bar using the microwave of the double boiler method.
- Cover the top of the cheesecake with the melted chocolate.
- Burn the marshmallow using a blow torch or broil them under the broiler for a couple of seconds until it reaches your preferred burnt level.
- Arrange the burnt marshmallows and biscuit chunks on the cheesecake.
Birthday girl loves her cheesecake
and I love her! Happy Birthday Amal!<3
Bon appetite!
Love,
Soffy
