Cooking Essentials

Saturday, February 27, 2010

No-Bake Blueberry Cheese Cake


While most of the sweet tooth loves the cheese cake when baked, not everyone can tolerate the long procedure of baking. If you want to make things short without sacrificing the taste, then you may try this proven recipe of no-bake blueberry cheese cake.

Though there is not much of a difference in taste, no-bake cakes must not leave the refrigerator for long.

You Need:
250 grams Cream Cheese
150 grams Whip Cream
1 teaspoon White Sugar
2 tablespoon liquid Gelatin - transparent

½ cup crushed Graham Cracker
2 tablespoon liquid Butter
3 tablespoon Brown Sugar
2 Drops of Vanilla
Water (amount of your choice)

1 jar of Blueberry Jam / Unsweetened Fresh Blueberries

Procedure:

1.Mix the graham cracker, liquid butter, brown sugar, vanilla. Add water up to the point that the mixture pleases you. This will serve as the crust on the bottom part of your cake.
2.Prepare the aluminum pan and press the crust at the surface.
3.Mix the cream cheese, whip cream, liquid gelatin and white sugar together in a bowl. You may do this manually, however, the smoothness of the cake may suffer. You better use an electric mixer to make sure of the quality.
4.Pour the the white mixture on the pan, above the pressed graham.
5.Place the pan on the freezer for three hours.
6.Pour the blueberry jam on the top of the cheese cake.
7.Keep refrigerated until you serve.

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Tapsilog in Tomato



Having a twist from the ordinary can bring great impact on your appetite. So, if you want to make the dinner extra special, try coming up with something so natural yet enticing.

This eye catching breakfast is a collaboration of Filipino recipe and Italian recipe.

Ingredients

5 strips of fried beef tapa
1 medium-sized fried egg - sunny side-up

½ cup of cooked rice
1 piece of garlic
1/2 teaspoon of butter
1 pinch of salt

1 big tomato
Mozzarella cheese (amount of your choice)

Procedure


1.Heat the Pan.
2.Place the butter and add the garlic once the butter turns liquid.
3.When the garlic turns golden brown, add the rice and mix.
4.Add the salt little by little as you mix the rice.

Tomato:
5.Cut the upper part of the tomato similar with the picture above.
6.Remove all the seeds and excess part inside the tomato but retain the flesh on the wall.
7.Bake the tomato with small amount of cheese at the bottom part.
8.Place garlic rice, beef tapa and egg inside the tomato and serve.

Photo from:
http://www.taste.com.au/

A Cooking Caution




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