Milk Choc Rice Krispies Mini Cheesecake

My oh my .. what a long title .. Milk Choc Rice Krispies Mini Cheesecake .. hehehe

I have always wanted to make cheesecake. So when a fellow Resipinet member shared this easy peasy cheesecake recipe, which made use of Milk Choc Rice Krispies, I had to try them.

Ingredients

Base Crust

75 gm digestive biscuites, crushed
45 gm butter, melted

Cheesecake Mixture

250 gm cream cheese, softened to room temperature
40 gm sugar (original recipe called for 30 gms sugar)
1 egg (Grade A)
1 tsp vanilla essence
35 gm milk choc rice krispies + more for topping

Method

Preheat oven to 175C.

Line 9 of a 12 holes muffin tins with paper cases.
Mix butter and crushed digestives and divide among the prepared wells. Press evenly into the bottom of the wells. Bake for about 5 mins (recipe called for the crust to be refrigerated till ready to use). Put aside to cool.

Lower oven temperature to 150C.

In a bowl, whisk cream cheese and sugar until smooth.
Then add egg and vanilla essence and mix well.
Using a spoon, fold in the milk choc rice krispies.

Spoon filling into the crusts, dividing evenly and then bake for about 15 mins.
Transfer to wire rack to cool and refrigerate.

Just before serving, break more choc and top the baked cheesecake.

Hmm .. you know what .. mine didnt need any topping at all and yah I microwaved mine a little. I just love mine served warm .. the goeyness of the melted choc and the crispiness of the rice krispies .. it was just heaven!!

Tihani is 5 Today!

Today is Tihani's birthday. We were supposed to bring her to East Coast to cycle but it rained almost the whole day. So in the evening when the rained stopped, DH brought the kids down to cycle.

While they were downstairs, they shouted for me, and then I ran to the windows and saw Tihani on her bicycle with her sis, Auni riding pillion. I took hold of my camera and snapped pix of them.

The girls on the bicyle showing me the Peace sign ..

And this is especially for you ..

Tihani, wishing you a Happy 5th Birthday .. promise Mama you'll be a good girl k.

Post Tihani's Mini Bday Celebration

So I went to Tihani's kindy today. Tihani was definitely surprised to see me when we (DH, Auni and myself)walked in. Teacher Azizah played her part .. she kept mum about the whole thing from Tihani .. hehe

Let me share with you some pix taken at the kindy ..

Tihani's classmate singing her a bday song

Tihani blowing the candles

One for the camera babes and dudes

After school, we brought Tihani to have lunch at Marina .. that's the bday girl posing for the camera

We then went to Carrefour to get her a bike .. thanks Pa, for getting the bike for Tihani ..

Oh ya .. Tihani also received lots of other prezzies too ..

Thank you Teacher Azizah, Teacher Zai, Teacher An and Teacher Liza for the presents

Thanks Auntie Marie, Uncle Ding and Hashri boy for that nice top and that must have reversible bag and

Thanks Mama Ina, Baba Zul and Hannah B for that Barbie Doll set!

Tihani's Birthday Cupcakes

It is Tihani's birthday this Saturday. No plan for a big birthday bash for her this year so I decided that we do a mini one at her kindy.

It was gonna be a SURPRISE for her .. she hasnt the slightest idea about the mini celebration.

I called her teacher for permission and asked how many children are there in Tihani's class and how many teachers there would be.

Sis helped me with the goody bags and I made CUPCAKES for Tihani earlier.

Phew .. after many hours in the kitchen, baking the chocolate and strawberry cakes in souffle cups,



making the icing, icing the cakes and topping it off with sugar decor stuff, here were the outcome ..

cupcakes ..

and more ...

There you go .. the cupcakes which I made for Tihani to bring to her school later on.

I really hope Tihani will be surprise to see me there and to see the cuppies I made her! Wish me luck!

It was definitely an improvement I made from the cupcakes that I baked her last year .. ;-)

Creative Cuppies

I do not normally go out on my own on Sundays. Sundays has always been a day for me to spend time with my family but today was exceptional.

This afternoon, I attended a creative cupcakes class. It was a whole lot of fun. Learnt to make some cuppies and cream.

The best part of the class was when I got to try hands on icing and decorating the cuppies.

I really enjoyed myself thoroughly .. got my hands and my top all messed up with the cream and all.

Check out the cuppies that I decorated .. still an amateur at this .. but I guess I have got to start somewhere rite??

Dont laugh aite .. just gimme the encouragement .. please please please ..

So here they are ladies and gentlemen .. presenting m3rni3's amateurish iced and decorated cuppies ..

hearts cuppy

webbey flower cuppy

ladybug cuppy

drift cuppy

rosey cuppy

Here is one more .. I got another participant to ice the leaves for me coz I was really not confident with icing leaves.

Never mind the names I gave them cuppies, I was just being creative .. ermm .. more like being wacky .. hehehe

I iced and decorated a whole lot more cuppies but only managed to snap pix of the above!

Hmm .. my hands are itching to make cuppies .. I really wonder when .. soon I hope!

Devil's Food Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Swirl

Over the weekend, when I opened my kitchen cabinet trying to clear stuff, I realised my Devil's Food Cake premix was going to expire soon.

So today, after work, I decided to use the premix before it expires. I made Devil's Food Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Swirl. The cream cheese swirl came about after I read alot of Marbled Cheese Chocolate Cake that friends of mine made.

Ingredients

1 box devil's food cake mix
1 1/3 cups water (i used fresh milk instead)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs

Whisk all ingredients till well incorporated.

Cream Cheese Mix

125 gm cream cheese, softened
30 gm caster sugar
1/2 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Whisk all ingredients till well incorporated.

Method

Heat oven to 180C
Place paper cases in muffin tins and pour mixture 2/3 full.
Take a heap teaspoon of cream cheese mixture and put over the cake mixture and use a toothpick to make swirled effect.
Bake for about 25 mins or until a pick inserted comes out clean.

Turn out onto a rack to cool.

After baking earlier, I went to Mila's house to pass some things to her and I brought some of those freshly baked cakes for her to try. She said that it tasted nice .. Phew!! just when I thought that choc and cheese doesnt go together, it had definitely changed my mind after Mila's comments .. ;-)

Thanks Mila! .. you should try making them sometime yah!

An Order

Sometimes I wish, I would get cakes or muffins orders from people I know or do not know. I always dream of doing a small business selling muffins or cakes .. simple reason being, I love to bake!

The last I got an order was in Feb when a friend ordered some cookie gift packs to bring to her daughter's kindy for her daughter's bday.

Last week, I got an order for 30 pieces of Choc Chunk Banana Muffins and you couldnt imagine how delighted I was.

Here are some pix of the order ..

Fresh from the oven

Erm .. one for picture sake .. hehe

Muffins all packed in a box and ready to be delivered!

So this was my second order for this year and I hope there's gonna be more orders coming my way!

Food Glorious Food!

After work earlier, DH and I went to Bedok Corner to eat. We were joined by Mila, her hubby, her hubby's brother and her hubby brother's friend .. hehehe .. So that make 6 of us.

I really stuffed myself today. Hmm .. I always complain that I am fat and yet I stuffed myself with all the nice food Bedok Corner stalls serve .. hahaha

We had

Fresh Cockles Kuey Teow .. it was really nice .. kuey teow fried with soy sauce and a lil chilli .. and some sliced fishcakes, prawn and fresh cockles thrown in .. oohh how I love thee!

Sotong Kangkong .. this shop has been serving this for the longest time and it has of course its followers .. sotong, sliced tau pok, chopped pineapples served on a bed of blanched kangkong and topped with the sauce and peanuts .. walla. The last I ate that was before Bedok Corner underwent renovation.

Mutton Satay .. really sweet .. these skewered meat were really tasty .. really well marinated .. served with chopped cucumber, onions and peanut sauce.

Cockles .. just yummy .. I just ate it like that without any dipping sauce whatsoever.

Sambal Stingray .. seriously I love this one more than the ones at Newton .. but the rest of the guys prefer the ones at Newton though .. maybe becoz I do not really like spicy stuff and this one is not spicy at all .. suited me well ;-)

Oyster Sauce Baby Kailan .. yikes .. dont really like this one .. the ones at Newton is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy much better .. nothing beats the ones at Newton. And yah, nevermind the blurry picture .. it is not nice anyway .. hehe

Oh yah .. that is not all .. a meal is never complete without dessert .. ehehe .. Mila and I ate Peanut Rice Balls with Warm Soy Milk .. the rice balls were really smooth and the peanuts just simply melted in your mouth.

That's Mila and me .. NICE FOOD = HAPPY GIRLS .. hehehe .. ;-)

After having all those glorious food, we said our goodbyes and parted .. BURP .. oops sowee .. ;-P

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