The first time my sister and I decided to bake something, we chose an apricot souffle.
If you've ever tried to bake a souffle, you may be gasping in horror right now! coz souffles can be fluffy airy delightful things IF you can convince them to rise ...and solid eggy crap if you can't
We couldn't convince ours to rise :(
This time however we picked something much safer
Recipe for Simple Mango Cheesecake
Base:
And it didn't help that our oven is a fan-forced, angryman oven that sounds like this: KERCLUNK-KERCLUNK , or that I whisked the batter for 2x longer than the recipe suggested (we thought this would make it fluffier.... err for future reference, no it doesn't)
Many years after forcing down those three spoonfuls of home-baked crap, I still can't look at dried apricots and un-soya-sauced omelettes in the face without feeling sick
Soo... maybe our first baking adventure wasn't a success...
Soo... maybe our first baking adventure wasn't a success...
This time however we picked something much safer
Tropical Mango Cheesecake~~ how good does that sound!!
As you can see, our biscuit base was kinda crumbly. This might have been because we added the butter to the crumbs, instead of the other way round -- either way, when we were mixing, it seemed like there was a woefully small amount of butter compared to the MOUNTAIN of biscuit crumbs
Recipe for Simple Mango Cheesecake
(adapted from 'Cupcakes and Cheesecakes' by Anthony Carroll)
Base:
~90g butter
~150g digestive biscuits, finely crushed (reduced from 250g, unless you do want a 50:50 base to filling ratio.... and how awesome is Nigella Lawson's way of making biscuit crumbs POUND POUND! haha)
1. Melt butter
2. Stir in the biscuit crumbs
3. Press into base of lined 20cm springform tin
4. Chill until firm
Filling:
~200g cream cheese
~50g sugar
~3 mangoes (keep 1 for decoration)
~1 1/2 tbsp gelatine
~2/3 cup thickened cream, whipped
1. Beat cream cheese with sugar
2. Peel, stone, puree 2 mangoes, add to the cheese & sugar and mix well
3. Dissolve gelatine in 1/4 cup warm water, add to the mango mixture. Add cream and mix well
4. Spoon into the cake tin and smooth the surface. Refrigerate until set
5. Decorate chilled cheesecake with slices of the last mango
And voila! Your delicious mango cheesecake is now ready to eat :)
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Ok hint who do you know likes FF? Prob everyone haha ok 2nd one. Whos Bday just passed as well ;)?
cheese cake my fav!
looking at those pics, remind me that
it's time for brekkie :)
good morning...
oh yeah I shouldve been able to guess who you were from your birthday celebrations ! aw but google was just too easy heheh
@annant
:0 you bake! what else do you make?
hahah I should have known you'd like cheesecake more than kueh and other asian snacks
@Superman
it's a good recipe eh! coz it's hard to get wrong :]
lol so many ppl haven't heard of mango cheesecake before -O- ! Im srsly surprised
@suituapui
aww well you don't need to bake if you know how to EAT >D heh actually I think ur luckier if you have someone to bake for you :D means u can just sit back and enjoy food minus the effort hehe
baking is fun but tricky D:
haha you're right - it would've been a good sort of dry if there wasn't so much biscuit though! we could have renamed our cheesecake a biscuitcake
it felt like a LOT of butter when we were adding it in... but somehow it all got swallowed up in the biscuit crumbs haha
it's a good recipe! lovely mix of soft cheesecake, crumbly base and juicy sweet mango mmm
Oohh cheesecake mmm I haven't baked in agggess... should get bak into it haha!
Ok hint who do you know likes FF? Prob everyone haha ok 2nd one. Whos Bday just passed as well ;)?
my god mom is good in baking...i used to help her in kitchen whenever im at her house...
cheese cake my fav!
looking at those pics, remind me that
it's time for brekkie :)
good morning...
Will save this recipe as it seems easy to do yet it looks yummy!
maggo cheesecake..thats something new
lol so many ppl haven't heard of mango cheesecake before -O- ! Im srsly surprised
Yum! Yum! But I'm not into baking. My missus does...and she makes the nicest cakes...once in a blue moon! Always too lazy to bother! Sigh!!!
aww well you don't need to bake if you know how to EAT >D heh actually I think ur luckier if you have someone to bake for you :D means u can just sit back and enjoy food minus the effort hehe
@FFichiban
oh yeah I shouldve been able to guess who you were from your birthday celebrations ! aw but google was just too easy heheh
@annant
:0 you bake! what else do you make?
hahah I should have known you'd like cheesecake more than kueh and other asian snacks
@Superman
it's a good recipe eh! coz it's hard to get wrong :]
Cheese and biscuit is a good combination but the biscuit looks a little too dry, am I right? I only know how to eat, never good at baking but I would like to learn.
baking is fun but tricky D:
haha you're right - it would've been a good sort of dry if there wasn't so much biscuit though! we could have renamed our cheesecake a biscuitcake
This mango cheesecake looks really delicious!! Yummy!! : )
I remember the first time I baked cheesecake, the crust was all crumbly and stuff too. Just add more butter and make sure they are melted first. Anyway your cheesecake looks amazingg :))
aha thanks for the tip we'll try that next time
it felt like a LOT of butter when we were adding it in... but somehow it all got swallowed up in the biscuit crumbs haha
This looks amazing! Having such a sweet tooth and so into cooking atm. Most likely gonna try this.
it's a good recipe! lovely mix of soft cheesecake, crumbly base and juicy sweet mango mmm
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