OreOOoo...

Have been wanting to try out the non-bake cheesecake for quite sometime and so here it is..I used the recipe from Krafts website and also heeded some suggestion from http://bakingmum.blogspot.com/to add in some lemon zest to the mixture. By adding some lemon zest, it can really increase the amount of flavour in the cake. And also you will be able to eat more as you wun have the bloating feeling that cheesecakes usually gives.

Ingredients as follows:
Base:
1 cup crushed OREO Original Cookies(white cream removed and set aside)
50g butter, melted
Filling:
500g block PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese,softened
3/4 cup caster sugar
3 teaspoons gelatine, dissolved in 1/4 cup boiling water
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup cream, lightly whipped
50g OREO* Chocolate Crème Cookies, extra,roughly chopped
Garnish for the top surface(Optional):
100g OREO* Chocolate Crème Cookies, crushed

As this recipe was meant for an 8" springform which i do not have, I re-adjusted the amount for the butter and oreo to fit my 9" springform. Also I double up the ingredients in order to make 2 cake at 1 go. 1 for my collegues and family to taste and the other for my husband's friend, who invited us over for a surprise party for their cute daugther SY - Happy Birthday SY!. Thanks ZT and H for the wonderful lunch and the sweet and thoughtful door gifts and thank you gifts.. (PS: H, I love the frame a lot! ) I really hope they would like the cake, if I know it was their daugther's bdae, I would have bought something else... haha.. Do give me your feedbacks!

I am now looking forward to my first blood donation next Thurday! and also the things I am going to make next! Till my next entry!

Zesty Sugar Cookies..

This is the third time I am baking cookies. I remembered the first time JP and me baked those ready mixed chocolate cookies which turn out to be ultra sweet and sinful. They actually taste like those cookies you can buy from Subway but only what we baked was harder. My second attempt was during Chinese New Year last year. I copied a recipe from http://big-girlicious.blogspot.com/ . Which was also chocolate flavoured cookie. (PS: Thanks Coraine! Really nice recipe!)

This cookies I am making this time round of which the recipe was copied from a library book I've borrowed. Ingredients as follows:

200g caster sugar
200g unsalted butter
1 egg (lightly beatened)
400g plain flour ( a little bit more for dusting)

To create the zesty taste, I added in orange zest from a large orange. I like this cookie very much as it is not sweet and easy to make. These type of cookie are actually good for doing sugar art due to it's flat surface. By making royal icing and adding different edible colourings, we can get really nice effects! Will try it the next time I make these cookies again. As I have limited time for baking this time round, I omitted that part.. hehe... My only concern is that with the addition of the royal icing probably the cookie will taste too sweet?