Cheesecake

What a way to spend the first weekend of a brand new year. :D

The picture on my left showed my "masterpiece", cheesecake. Ok, the truth is, the picture is not too appealing (well, i was never good in art :P ) but the taste is still up to standard. At least, when I reached home just now, searching for the last 2 pieces of cheesecake, it was gone. :~( Credits to my mother and nephew for finishing the last 2 pieces and spared me from putting on weight due to the excessive fats and cheese.

This cheesecake was made by freezing and not baking. It wasn't too hard. All in all, it took me about 2 hours? The hardest bit was making the crust and that was where the failure was. I was trying to be lazy, my intention was to get a premade crust, unfortunately NTUC and Phoon Huat did not have that and I could not combat my craze for cheesecake that weekend. So in the end, I turned to the Internet for making a simple crust by pounding crackers. That was the weak link, the failure. I failed to pound the crackers fine enough, in the end, the crust was too flaky. Failure number 2 was it was too sweet. That was not too difficult to combat, next time add less sugar :) .

All in all, I was quite happy with my performance of my first attempt at "baking" (or freezing rather) a cake. The best part of it is, I get to eat cheesecake everyday (that spells troubles). Haha, I am known to my friends for being a cheesecake frantic. Anyway, I am sure I will perfect my cheesecake in time to come. This week, I will start baking chocolate chips cookies and see how it goes.

Till then. :) A good way to start a cheery brand new year.