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Tham Jiak: Yet Another Cheesecake
Tham Jiak means in some way "love to eat" in Hokkien. I am a Malaysian Hokkien and truly love to eat.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Yet Another Cheesecake

I can’t seem to get over the chocolate and cheese love affair. Maybe I could have put cheese in a better limelight featuring it entirely in a cake. Therefore I took the opportunity of an occasion to surprise J.

J loves cheese. He adores cake. Cheesecake is then his greatest vice. I made this cheesecake especially for him, and had given him the liberty to do whatever he wants with it. He had chosen to devour it all by himself. Little did I know, I had given him his most powerful temptation. The poor boy managed to finish the whole cake himself in two days. Imagine that!


Lemon Sour cream Cheesecake

Not too bad a recipe but I had found that the amount of lemon is not distinct enough. Therefore I had increased the amount of lemon in the following recipe. My cake sank a lot after removing from the oven but luckily the top did not crack at all. This time the base is much better than the previous chocolate cheesecake but overall, we both found that we enjoyed the chocolate cheese affair more. Maybe we had indeed converted.

Base:
80g Marie Biscuits (crushed/grinded)50g Butter

Cheese Filling:
250g Cream cheese (1 block Philadelphia Cream Cheese)
25g Butter
½ lemon zest
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 egg yolks
20g sugar

30g corn flour
100g sour cream

1 egg white
30g sugar
1 tsp lemon juice


For the base, melt the butter and then mix into the crushed biscuits. Pressed it into an 8 inch round cake tin. Refrigerate till needed.

Beat the cream cheese and butter together. Then add in lemon zest and the lemon juice. Slowly beat in one egg yolk at a time. Then add in the sugar. Beat till creamy.

Stir in corn flour till well combined.
Stir in sour cream till well blended.

In a clean bowl, whip egg white, sugar and lemon juice till stiff peak. Stir into the cheese mixture and stir till well incorporated.

Pour onto the prepared base and bake in a water bath for 1 hour.
Let rest in the oven a few minutes after and then remove to let cool. Refrigerate for at least 5 hours before serving.

Serves 4-6 (In this case it served 1. LOL)

13 comments:

FooDcrazEE said...

havent baked a cheese cake before and i think its about time i learn... use to hate baking but learning now..

rokh said...

don't hate it. it's really fun. as for me, i still have problem making yeasted bread. seem daunting

boo_licious said...

Wow. It looks like a cheesecake we had over the weekend. I'm thinking of making a baked one too! Looks like J is a lucky boy.

rokh said...

yea boo, cheesecake is lovely, chilled or baked. i'm experimenting on J, hehe.

Joe said...

The cheesecake looks great! Maybe more zest to up the lemon flavor?

rokh said...

great idea joe. i might if i ever do it again. i doubt. i'm feeling adventorous for more various cheesecake recipes

Nic said...

I love lemon in cheesecake, but if you want to try different flavors, I can imagine that an orange chocolate cheesecake would be very good.

Pink Elle said...

Wow! A whole cheesecake in 2days! He must really love it! ;)

rokh said...

nic, thanks for the great idea. now i just need to find the recipe for it.

sue, yea, he's a cheesecake monster!

rokh said...

meena, yea nothing beats chocolate eh

FatMan Seoul said...

Just dropped by to say HI. Doing my rounds of new food blogs. Pretty neat set up you have here. Will bookmark and return later for more. Cheerio.

rokh said...

hello fatman seoul, thanks for dropping by.

Anonymous said...

is your cheesecake cracking? do you want it smooth? tips for perfect cheesecake:

http://threelayercake.com/content/view/235/48/

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