Cheesecake galore!

This was a cheesecake weekend galore! I baked an oreo cheesecake and a Japanese cheesecake.

Oreo cheesecake: Basically the same recipe as per the marble cheesecake, but I took out the dark chocolate and replaced this with 150g of crushed oreo cookies. I basically just broke the cookies up, didnt hammer or smash it, just crumbled it. It turned out really nice, and I liked the thin brown layer that formed at the top. This time however, I actually had a tin of water which I placed on the bottom layer of the oven... this was one of the tips given by Kraft cheese. Not sure what the difference was....

Oh yes and I finally found a blender that could really process the digestive biscuits (australian recipes usually ask for 'Marie' or 'Nice' biscuits, but I used McVites Digestive biscuits instead, which is preferred by the British recipes... it is a bit nicer) - so it was this very fine powder and mixed with the melted butter actually gave a very buttery almost sticky mixture. I panicked! And then decided to follow a tip I read somewhere of baking it... so I did... the base wasn't super crunchy, but it seemed to turn out okay. And actually processing it finely does give the base a more professional appearance.


Next was the Japanese cheesecake: Not sure if many people have tasted it, but you can easily buy it in Singapore. It uses cream cheese as well, but less of it, and more eggs, which you have to separate and whisk the eggs and combine the yolks separately. It is very light, almost like a sponge cake, but with more taste. Anyhow, i wanted to make it green tea flavoured, but i think the cheese flavour was too overpowering. Also, I used a spatula to fold the mixture, as a result, taste was still good, but the mixture could have been smoother. Will use a cake mixer the next time!