blueberry cheesecake (and chocolate chip cookies)

blueberry cheesecake! actually you can probably find the recipe for this online anywhere (which is what i did, oops) but here's proof that it actually works! justin and i made this for jas's birthday and it was unanimously deemed a success. and then we used the remaining ingredients to make chocolate chip cookies which was also a success, but i'm not sure i can put the recipe up here because we added in random amounts of flour to our liking, but heck maybe i will anyway, so you get two (boring and easy to find) recipes in one! they're really easy recipes anyway


blueberry cheesecake

ingredients

• 100g digestive biscuits
• 30g butter (or more if you feel like it)
• 100g caster sugar
• 4teaspoon (20ml) cornflour
• 300g soft cheese (the original recipe said 'light' but i used full fat)
• 1 egg
• 150ml sour cream
• 250g blueberries (or maybe less since i had quite a lot)
• 40g caster sugar (yes again, for the topping)

recipe

1. preheat oven to 180degC/350degF/gas mark 4
2. grease cake tin with butter
3. crush biscuits
4. melt butter
5. stir butter into biscuit crumbs
6. press crumbs into base of cake tin, make sure you press hard and dam nicely
7. chill the cake tin with the crumb base in the fridge
8. mix cornflour and sugar
9. add cheese and mix
10. add egg and mix
11. add cream and mix
12. pour mixture into the cake tin above the base and spread evenly
13. pop in oven for 30ish minutes, after that take out and chill in fridge
    
14. mix the additional 40g of sugar with 50ml of water in a pot and bring to boil til the sugar dissolves
15. add blueberries in
16. cover and simmer until you like the way it looks: i stopped mine once all the blueberries were soft and dark and the water looked like blueberry juice
17. chill the topping in the fridge
18. pour/spread on top of the cake just before serving

YAY. kevin loved the crumb base so much that he made another base just to eat, with no cake on top. -.-

okay next


chocolate chip cookies

ingredients

1. 125g butter
2. 100g granulated sugar
3. 75g soft brown sugar
4. 1 egg
5. 2 teaspoon vanilla extract (i may have zhnged more than 2 teaspoons..)
6. 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
7. pinch of salt
   
8. >200-250g plain flour (i have NO idea)
9. 100g chocolate chips

recipe

1. preheat oven to 190degC/375degF/gas mark 5
2. grease base of cookie tray with butter
3. mix sugars together
4. melt butter
5. mix butter + sugars
6. + egg + vanilla extract + baking powder + salt
7. slowly add in sifted flour til the dough is shapable. the original recipe said 150g but it was clearly not enough so we just kept adding until it was more or less shapable into little balls, not too hard though
8. mix in chocolate chips, as much as you want la
   
9. plop them as little balls on the cookie tray, not too close together
10. pop the tray in the oven for 10mins-ish, or until the fork won't go through the surface that easily
11. take out and cool and eat (=

YAY. yichung(law) ate these with cognac in the other hand