Well, not only have I been a slack blogger over the Christmas break, I have also been a slack baker! It has been a busy but relaxing Christmas period and I have been doing lots of reading and resting, quite focussed on the arrival of our wee one, and not so much baking.
I did do the last two TWD recipes. I made the low and luscious chocolate cheesecake for Christmas day. It made the perfect accompaniment to the other puddings I made which were individual pavlovas, red and green jellies, strawberry trifle and lots of fresh strawberries. The cheesecake was very rich and made a rather large cheesecake, but with 11 of us for Christmas, we ate the whole thing over a couple of days. I actually made the base with arnotts rice biscuits to make it gluten free so my Mum could eat it too.
I have to confess I only made the cocoa buttemilk birthday cake yesterday afternoon and my husband and I had a small piece each as a last holiday treat. The cake was baked for the second anniversary of TWD – we could choose between the cake and tarte tatin. Tarte tatin is not one of my favourite puddings, so I opted for the cake. I actually halved the recipe and made the cake in little oval tins. Half the recipe still made a rather substantial cake.
I didn’t fill the cake with the buttercream Dorie suggested, but simply filled it with whipped cream flavoured with icing sugar and vanilla. Dorie is right, this is a great cake! It’s denser than a sponge, but still light enough to taste fabulous with whipped cream. I will definitely be making this cake again.
You can see what the other TWDers thought of this recipe here.
6 comments:
Hi Tammy, Welcome back! Both your cake and cheesecka elook delish, though I especially fancy the cake.
Hi Tammy, I am new to your site and think its gorgeous. I heard about it from the article in the Sunday magazine. Just wondering if you have the chocolate chip cookie recipe on the blog which you mentioned in that article - my husband is often critical of my choc chip cookies so I would love a new recipe! Thanks Rebecca
Ciao Tammy ! It seems to me you baked a lot !!
Dear Tammy, I have to mail my card to you but the later it got the more guiltier I felt so now I'm feeling really really bad !! Sorry !!!
Hi Rebecca
The recipe for my Nana's chocolate chip biscuits is: 120g butter, 2 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp condensed milk, 1 c flour, 1 tsp baking powder and about 1/2 c chocolate chips. You simply cream the butter, sugar and cond milk and then add teh dry ingredients, roll into balls, flatten slightly with a fork and then bake at 160c for about 15 minutes. I hope you enjoy them!
Tammy
Good for you to catch up. These both look delish.
Thanks for baking the cheesecake with me that week.
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