A girl’s best friend: chocolate
Or better yet: A WHOLE PIE!!
I made the Velvet Chocolate Cheesecake for FreezeM at his birthday April 10th. Everybody enjoyed it so much I thought I’d share. The recipe comes from “Best loved recipes of all time”.
Baking cakes is something I started with after our trip to New York. I’ll never ever forget that first piece of cheesecake in the fancy coffee bar on Times Square. Hmmm…
No I LOVVVEEE baking pies!
(you'll find the recipe in the read more)
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Ingredients Velvet Chocolate Cheesecake
10 servings
• 20 Chips Ahoy! Chocolate Chip Cookies, divided
• ¼ cup margarine or butter melted
• 1 1/3 cup sugar, divided
• 2 (8-ounce) packages (Philadelphia Cream Cheese, softened)
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 2 eggs
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract divided
• 1 cup Breakstone’s or Knudsen sour cream
• Cool Whip Whipped Topping (In Dutch: gewoon slagroom!)
• Maraschino cherries for garnish or as I used, many many strawberries
For Dutchies wanting to try this, here’s a handy conversion chart for ounces to grams.
1. Finely crush 20 cookies. Mix cookie crumbs and margarine or butter; press onto bottom of 8-inch springform pan. Stand remaining cookies around side of the pan; set aside
2. Reserve 2 tablespoons sugar. Beat cream cheese in medium bowl with electric mixer at medium speed until creamy; beat in remaining sugar, cocoa, eggs and 1 teaspoon vanilla until fluffy. Pour into prepared crust. Cover tops of cookies with band of aluminium foil before baking to avoid overbrowning.
3. Bake 375F (= 190 graden celcius!) for 50 minutes or until cheesecake is puffed and toothpick inserted ½ inch from edge comes out clean; remove from oven.
4. Blend reserved sugar, sour cream and remaining vanilla; spread evenly over cheesecake. Return to oven; bake 10 minutes more. Cool completely at room temperature. Refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight. Remove side of pan. Garnish with whipped topping and maraschino cherries if desired.
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High Tea
I'm yearning for a cup of tea with milk & sugar. Call me crazy if you will...
I eat mayonaise with my fries too... :)
..... there is a god .... mmmm
My first lemonade!!!!
It's so hot!!! Let's make some fresh lemonade :) In The Netherlands lemonade is not a known drink. We know coca cola, fanta, sprite, ice tea etc. but fresh lemonade is never made.
But this sweet Dutchie LOVES fresh lemonade and here's my simple recipe:
Ingredients (for 4 glasses)
4 lemons (save 1 lemon for decoration)
6 tablespoons sugar
4 cups water
lots of ice
Cut 3 lemons in half & squeeze them. Remove the seeds (they're not nice to eat). Pour into serving pitcher (As I'm Dutch, I only have a Heineken pitcher :). Add the sugar, and let it stand awhile (so the sugar to dissolves). Stir a couple of times.
When the sugar is dissolved, add the water and stir again. Serve it over o lot of ice & a slice of lemon for decoration :)
Enjoy!!!!
