Recipe: Chocolate Cheesecake

I tried to make Chocolate Cheeecake as well! It is now resting in the refrigerator. Haven't tasted it yet. Hope it tastes good! Here's the recipe for those who are interested.

Ingredients for the cheesecake
285g plain chocolate
1.2kg cream cheese
200g sugar
2 teaspoons of vanilla essence
4 eggs at room temp
175ml sour cream
1 tablespoon cocao powder


For the base
200g crushed chocolate biscuits
85g melted butter
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Instructions1. Preaheat oven at 180 degrees celcius and grease bottom and sides of a 9inch diameter by 3inches depth tin.

2. For the base, mix the crushed biscuits with the melted butter and cinnamon and press evenly onto the tin.

3. Melt the chocolate slowly over a double boiler.

4. Beat the cream cheese until smooth, then beat in sugar and vanilla essence. Then add eggs in 1 at a time.

5. Stir the sour cream and cocoa powder to form a paste in another bowl. Then add to cream cheese mixture. then stir in the melted chocolate.

6. Pour into the tin with the base. Bake for 1 hour. Let it cool, remove from tin, refrigerate before serving.


Here are some pics of mine! :)

Updates: The cheesecake was nothing below awesome. It was my first try and many of my friends and myself were utterly shocked at how good it tasted.

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Recipe: Chocolate Chip Cookies

I just tried out this cookie recipe. I used to bake cookies using pre-mixes. Totally no challenge, boring and extremely sweet. So I tried out baking chocolate chip cookies from scratch. Guess what?? AWESOMENESS! Haha! I'll share the recipe here, so hope it helps you guys who are interested. :)

Ingredients
115g of butter at room temp
50g caster sugar
110g brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
170g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
170g chocolate chips
55g chopped walnuts

Instructions1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius and grease 2 large baking sheets.

2. Use an electric mixer to cream the butter and both the sugars together until light and fluffy.

3. Mix the egg and vanilla essence in another bowl, then gradually beat into the butter mixture.

4. Sift the flour, bicarbonate soda and salt and stir it into the butter mixture.

5. Add the chocolate chips and walnuts and mix well.

6. Place spoonfuls onto your greased trays about 5cm apart and bake for 10-15 minutes, until lightly coloured. Cool it and it is READY!


Some picturess of my baking!

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Food Review: Azur @ Changi Airport's Crowne Plaza Hotel

Today, went to this restaurant at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Changi Airport. It is called Azur. Food was quite basic. Normal Singapore fare. Some were good, some were not as nice. But overall, I would say it is quite worth it. If you just want to try some place new, I would suggest this place. But if you are looking to impress, I think this will not be enough. There was a really huge variety of food. Let me list it here: nyonya chap chye, chicken rice, roasted pork, roasted chicken, steamed chicken, carrot cake, mee siam, soon kueah, lotus leaf rice, kung ba pao, pork belly, fried noodles, otak-otak, rojak, teochew congee, chicken with century egg congee, salad bar, 4 different flavours of ice cream, 6 types of nyonya kueh, pulut hitam, bread and butter pudding, muffins, scones, creme brulee, banana cheese cake, prune tart, pandan cake, vanilla panacota, mango pudding, durian pengat, fresh fruits, ice kachang, mussels, prawn, flower crab, pork rib water cress soup, mushroom soup, 5 types of sushi, pumpkin with kalamanta salad, thai prawn salad, black olive pilaf rice, sauteed vegetables, deep fried crispy chicken, breads and buns, creamy/tomato based pasta, mushroom ragout, sauteed potatoes, breaded fish fillet...

So as you can see, really lots of food. But not all was fantastic. Ambience was actually nice. Simple and beautiful. Very posh feel. Family was satisfied.

Some photos here. I'm very sorry for the real poor quality because I forgot to bring out my camera, so I had to make do with the camera on my cellphone. Really sorry about it people.

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Food Review: A&W at Jusco Permas Jaya @ Johor Bahru Malaysia

I went there some time ago with a friend. Simply to eat the curly fries and have some root beer float. But guess what?? They had a problem with their root beer machine! SO NO FLOAT! Haha!!! Anyway, at least I got to eat some freshly fried curly fries. It was much better than Singapore McDonald's festive season curly fries. Hope I get to go there again to try the long missed root beer float!

Some photos.

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Food Review: Long Quan Sugar Cane Juice Dessert Stall @ Marsiling

This is my favourite dessert stall! Where can you find super delicious cold "cheng teng" for $1.20?!?! Where can you find "ice-jelly atap seeds" with 6 freaking nice "atap seeds" at on top for $1.20?!?! This is the place! Awesome dessert stall. A very cute and friendly uncle serves there. He might seem unfriendly at times, but he is really a nice guy. This shop is located at the big hawker centre just beside the Woodlands-Malaysia Customs.

Here are some pics.

 

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Food Review: Nandos @ Bugis Junction

First time having a meal here at Nandos. The queue is always horribly long! Never had the patience. This day, it wasn't that long, so my family decided to try it out. Service was slow. Staff were not responsive. I didn't really feel welcomed. Felt like leaving after just waiting to get my orders taken. Food was NOT awesome. It tasted like any ordinary food. Nothing special. Serving wise nothing special or nice. I won't go there again. I rather have KFC or Astons. Anyway, here are the pics.

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