Baked Potatoes & Cheese

After baked my cheese cake last Saturday, I baked a dish also contain cheese in it. Some cheesy weekend I had, Don’t you think so? I bake this dish while waiting for my cheese cake to be chilled. So simple, but since it contain cheese, I guarantee this is one tasty dish … trust me!

Actually, I baked this dish coz I have to use 2 packs of Kraft Quick Melt that will be expired in February. I know you might think what a lousy person I am. But hey, is on the discount when I bought it back then, imagine 2 packs for only 1 pack price. You must be kidding me, if you can stand not to buy those …

Okay back to the dish … at fist I have no idea what to do with it. But you know Kraft pack always comes with a recipe in it. So, I decided to bake it with some potatoes, with a bit of modification of course.


Ingredient:

6 small size potatoes wash it cleanly, cut in four, peel if you want, Idon't
100 gram of minced beef
½ onion, chopped
Salt & pepper
Water to boil the potatoes
3 table spoon of vegetable oil
1 tea spoon finely chopped salary
1 pack of Kraft Quick Melt, about 180 gram, grated/mashed
Margarine/margarine to greased

Method:
Preheat oven for 190 Celsius.

Heat oil in a pan; add in the onion, stir fried until it goes translucent, add the minced beef, sat & pepper, stir fried until the beef is perfectly cooked, set aside. Boiled the potatoes with some salt for about half an hour until it becomes soft. Greased a casserole dish with a bit of butter or margarine, arrange potatoes sprinkle with salary, cooked minced beef, and last the cheese. Baked for 15-20 minutes. Serve warm. Please don’t leave your chili sauce behind while enjoy this dish … ;p


If you've seen some burnt part on the dish, I did that on purpose, coz it create a wonderful aroma when it burnt a little bit. Imagine kaastengel cookies ....

Remarks: on the pack of the Kraft quick melt it said that it melts of 175 Celsius, but it didn’t happen on my oven, it melt on 190 Celsius.

Now, I have to think what to do with the other pack. Got any idea??

Baked Cheese Cake

It's hard for me to decide the title of this post ... is it "Baked Cheese cake" or "New York Cheese Cake" ?. So I browse around the web to find what is the signature of the "New York Cheese Cake". And I could not found what actually the different between the New York Cheese Cake & any regular baked cheese cake, everyone always seem to have their own version of New York Cheese cake. But most of them use cream cheese & sour cream as their base cream material & their always refer to a very creamy cheese cake.

So, I decided to use the title "Baked Cheese Cake", first reason, as I said before, I could not found the signature of New York Cheese Cake, & second I use Neufchatel Cream cheese, most of the NY cheese cake recipe on the web use regular cream cheese. So it's not fare to use the name New York Cheese cake.

This recipe taken from the cheese cake book from Yasaboga. They named it New York Cheese Cake, but I'm not using the name coz the two reasons above.

Cruz:
120 gram of crushed digestive cracker
75 gram of melted butter

Cheese cake:
375 gram of cream cheese (I use neufchatel cream cheese)
100 gram of sour cream
125 gram of castor sugar (I use powdered sugar)
2 whole eggs
1 egg yolk
15 gram of cake flour
2 tea spoon of lemon zest

this was my addition
Sugar icing: 1 egg white, 125 gram sugar,30 cc of water, a pinch of cream tartar.

100 gram of Strawberry jam, 2 table spoon of water & a pinch of gelatine powder, heat until it emulsify finely.

Method:
Preheat oven 175 celcius.

In a mixing bowl combine the cracker crumbs and melted butter. Press firmly into the bottom of a greased 18 cm round spring form pan. Refrigerated about 1 hour.

In large bowl cream the sugar & cream cheese untill smooth, use the low-medium speed. If you use big stand mixer like kitchen aid, use the creaming beater. Add in flour then eggs & egg yolk, continue mixing, last add lemon zest & sour cream.

Pour the cream cheese batter to the pan, bake au bain marie for 45 minutes. Turned of the oven, open the oven door about 1-2 cm, let it cooled completely. about 1-2 hour. Refrigerated for 4-8 hour untill completely firm.

For the Sugar icing:
Make the sugar syrup from the sugar & water, add cream of tartar to the syrup. Beat egg white until peak, pour the sugar syrup while it's hot. The batter will be smooth again, beat until soft peak.

Decored the side of the cooled cheese cake with the sugar icing & blow torched it. Add topping. Refrigerate for one hour before serving.


So that my friend, my first baked cheese cake ....

Pandan Cheese Roll Cake

Roll cake is big deal to me .... coz it's cost me a lot of experiment just to make the perfect roll .... roll n roll n roll it again & again .....

To newbie like me this recipe is perfect .... first of all, it use just 4 egg & second, it use the chiffon method so the cake is easier to roll ......

I got this recipe from the roll cake book of sedap ... the original recipe is coffee roll cake ... but I make it as pandan cheese roll cake, coz pandan is one of my favorite aroma ....


Ingredient:
100 gram of low protein flour
30 gram of confection sugar
60 gram of salad oil
75 cc of milk
4 egg whites
4 egg yolk
75 gram sugar
pinch og salt
1/2 tea spoon of pandan paste
Filling: 100 gram grated cheddar cheese & 75 gram of butter cream

Method:

1. Preheat oven 180 C
   
2. In large bowl mix the flour & confection sugar, sifted if necessary
   
3. In Another bowl mix the milk, oil, egg yolk & pandan paste
4. Add the milk mixture to the flour mixture, mix until all is well incorporated
   
5. Beat the egg white & sugar untill softpeak
6. Agg the beaten egg white to the flour mixture, fold in 3 stages
7. Pour the batter in 28x28cm pan, bake for 20 minutes
   
8. Wait until it cool down, roll with the filling