Second Cheese Cake adventure

Ok, with some time to spare on Friday night, I embarked on a revolutionary way of making cheesecakes...

Well... not really.. but its quite a big jump for me!

 

I used a more advanced recipe .. and it took me until close to midnight to get everything into the refrigerator to cool... and I used this morning to finish it up...

but... Mmm mm mmm.. I had one for breakfast and it was Heavenly!!... Well, self-praise is worth no praise.. but its really much yummy than my previous ones... by at least 3 times...  there's this interesting tangy orangy flavor in it ( I blended orange skin!! The orange skin is like the human skin - nurses use them to practice giving shots - but more relevant-ly for cooking, the skin has a lot of flavor... their oily glands produce a good amount of orangey zest... kinda like an adoloscent's face... well. gross.. anwyay...)

And this time my cake didn't crack and its not crumbly.. so its really smooth... I think an additional reagent really does help it alot.. (Ya.. I added radioactive Uranium in my cake.. mutated my bacteria in sour cream..)

 

Anyway here's my little journey -

I spent about one hour making the crust, and the batter...and baking.. and tada:

 

 

That's the mini cheese cake batch... I added chocolate to the top and it caused the cake to crack a little at the top.. oh well... it won't matter as you'll find out later...

 

 

Yup a close up and you can see that piece of nearly melted chocolate making a dent in the cake...

Well.. its like a meteorite that landed and smashed into cheesecake plannet...

Bla....

 

 

Here's my main cake in the oven.. I used a tiny one..about 4++" as I found out.. a 9" cheese cake is ALOT.... its hard to finish.. and really bad for health... I believe if cheesecakes were to be eated after a meal.. they should be tiny.. like mini cheesecakes..

I just attended a birthday bash at cheesecake factory and oh man... I couldn't finish my slice!! but it was good..

Anyway....

 

 

For the first time, I played around with making chocolate glaze... ohh.. this was fun... it wasn't too difficult to make so I tried playing around with the recipe a little.. I added a little bit of coffee (Although I hate coffee like anything).. for that caffeinated sting...

I like that in good chocolate..

in Any case, I started pouring glaze all over.. not easy... its consistency makes it kinda hard to estimate how much glaze to add before it overflows...

Anyway, I got my other cake out and glazed it and left them in the refrigerator over night....

 

so this is what I got in the morning:

 

 

And I decided to add some creamer (lol I didnt have icing) for contrast:

 

I then started working on my second glaze on the cheesecakes - you know, use a cone and draw sguigly lines?:



Well.. it turns out to be harder that I thought.. the consistency of the glaze makes it a little hard to control... and somethings just don't look right...

For example:


Meet mr Mutated Eyes smiley man.. -).. hey! he has a dimple!



Tried to do something nice.. but hmm.. it just looks.. boring...



Star of David... =)
Kinda outa shape



Not very well drawn treble clef..

Well, most of them looked rather kiddy... I guess the least bad design was the simply stripes thingie:




And I did that for my bigger cake:



Yup.... It took a while to get all these done...
But ... hmm.. I had a trial taste yesterday and it was Good.. I let Emily try it too and yup.. it was definitely a jump from my previous ones... I'm excited - so now I don't need to go to a restaurant for cheesecakes! =)
And I don't have to buy those dry frozen ones from the groceries.. I've got my own moist and  tangy cheese cake complimented by smooth dark chocolate.. and a glaze accented with brandy and coffee... mmmm...

Here's the final product:



Mmm.... ok.. I think I'm going to have one for breakfast!..