Mini Pumpkin CheeseCake / Cheesecake labu kuning

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Selam everybody.......Merhaba from Türkey.

This is our weekend dessert. The humble yet delicious classic pumpkin cheesecake.
İ know you might find hundreds of cheesecake recipes out there, but İ assure you this pumpkin cheesecake recipe is keeper and repeatable one.

The pumpkin and spice adding it's so into this season.
Today İ made mini version of this pumpkin cheesecake. İ used two 11 x 6 cm mini mold but you can use one 16 x 10 cm for bigger version but please adjust the baking time to get nice result.

But İ just love mini version ... 💗💖

For pumpkin puree İ use homemade one but you use caned pumpkin puree as your prefer. You can see my homemade pumpkin puree here.

For baking process İ use steam bake at low temperature. İ take wide baking tray and put a rack (± 3 cm high) then place my cheesecake pan onto it. Fill hot water almost as high as the rack. 

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#Strawberry Labneh Cheese Souffle Cake with Strawberry compote

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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İf you are my regular reader you should probably familiar with my labneh cheese recipe. You may already know (or tried-maybe) my latest Labneh souffle cheesecake with spicy warm honey fig.
What about my fave dessert ever; Three tone Labneh "Cheese" Chocolate mousse . Or simply delicious Yogurt "Cheese" Souffle Cake. 
Well yes..İ am using labneh a lot daily not even for dessert but also for soup and other cooks.

What is labneh cheese? it's yogurt that has been strained to remove its whey, resulting in a thicker consistency than unstrained yogurt. Due to the straining process to remove excess whey, even non-fat varieties of strained yogurt are much thicker, richer, and creamier than yogurts that have not been strained.

Fresh labneh, made from yogurt with live or active cultures are a very healthy food that contain probiotics, that enhance the immune system, lower cholesterol, aid in digestion, protect against constipation, protect against diarrhea, improve lactose digestibility.
Labneh is like yogurt is an excellent source of protein, casein, whey, beneficial fats, carbohydrates, as well as vitimins and minerals (B12, Calcium, Phosphorus and Riboflavin.) Labneh has less lactose and sugar than regular yogurt.

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Matcha Marble Japanese Cheesecake Recipe

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Selam everybody.... Merhaba from Turkey.

Cheesecake is the most repeatable cake I bake in these 6 years. Since I baked first time for my husband at early year our marriage, he fell in love with it. I'm big fan of cheesecake, especially cotton soft one like this Japanese style cheesecake.

Different from New York style, this cheesecake has very light cottony texture. The topping and can be vary start from lemon curd until your favorite jam. Please do check my other cheesecake posts to see the variation here.

And my post today is Japanese cotton light cheesecake with matcha (green tea) marble. The recipe I adapted from Diana Dessert's with minor adjustment using matcha marble. Original recipe using 8" round baking pan, but here I use 9" (about 24 cm in diameter) fixed base pan. Next time I will use 8" for taller cheesecake. Just need to lightly grease and line the side of pan with baking paper/ parchment paper few cm higher than the pan.

This time I grease the bottom and side of my 9'' fixed base pan and line with parchment paper. I bake this cheesecake with water bath method as original recipe calls, but I put low and small rack over water bath pan so the bottom of my baking pan barely touch the water. Well.... I pour hot water maybe not more than half cm high from my baking pan's bottom side. See the illustration below.

If you use removable pan, it's important to line the outside of pan with double heavy duty aluminum foil, or few sheet thinner aluminum foil to make sure no water seep into your cheesecake during water bath baking.

Another note, to prevent sudden change of temperature that may cause the cake to shrink drastically, you should let the cake cold down inside the oven with ajar. But actually It’s normal for Japanese cheesecake that will shrink about ½ inch after cooling, don't be alert.

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Labneh (strained yogurt) souffle cheesecake with spicy warm honey fig

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Selam everybody....Merhaba from Turkey.Resep dalam bahasa Indonesia ada dibagian bawah

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

First, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. Please come back, again and again, to check up on anything beyond Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweet you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛 

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What is labneh cheese? it's yogurt that has been strained to remove its whey, resulting in a thicker consistency than unstrained yogurt. Due to the straining process to remove excess whey, even non-fat varieties of strained yogurt are much thicker, richer, and creamier than yogurts that have not been strained.

In Turkey, strained yogurt is known as süzme yoğurt ("strained yogurt") or kese yoğurdu ("bag yogurt"). Water is sometimes added to it in the preparation of cacık, when this is not eaten as a meze but consumed as a beverage. Strained yogurt is used in Turkish mezzes and dips such as haydari.

In Turkish markets, labne is also a popular as dairy product but it is different from strained yogurt; it is yogurt-based creamy cheese without salt, and is used like mascarpone.

Strained yogurt

Frankly speaking, I use this labneh cheese from strained yogurt a lot in my daily cook. Since cold soup made from this süzme yoğurt ("strained yogurt") until dessert. And I am pretty satisfied with using it. Beside richer in texture, I can reduce the sourness in it, so creamy yet healthy.

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No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

Selam everybody...... Merhaba from Turkey....

Previously I made pumpkin pie spice because I already have a plan to get into "pumpkin season" for my family... Yes.. fall still around and pumpkin is everywhere ^,^
And since in Turkey I can not find caned pumpkin puree so this is also my reason I made my own pumpkin puree.... You also can check my homemade pumpkin puree.

And this is my first recipe using my homemade pumpkin puree, no bake pumpkin cheesecake bars.. The combination of my "gingery" gingersnap cookie with fragrant pumpkin spice together with pumpkin and cheese cream make this dessert bars become new favorite in our house--especially my husband ^,^

I add some chocolate flavor in it so it's just even yummyly better. Put them in air tight container and keep back in freezer if you have some left over, thawed them few minute in fridge before serving. Next time I will flush with caramel sauce for different twist flavor..you can try it too for your family! (^,^)

Make 12 bars

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Cheesecake between Red Velvet Cake for our wedding anniversary

This is not too late post--I think. Yes, me and my husband just celebrate our wedding anniversary. At this 28th August we celebrate our 5th year, love and respect each other, live and rowing our small boat facing-sometimes ripple waves- and sometimes big waves and scary wind. I know it's still too much too young to reach our dreaming island...but at least this 5th year we can remember that we are still rowing same boat to go to the same way.

Nothing is easy in our marriage. We came from different place! Totally different culture, different language, different nationality, different taste... My husband is Turkish and me my self is Indonesian.  If you understand what I mean, person who came from different background is never easy to walk together with at same rhythm... 

The things we have in common is only care, love and good willing to reach blessing of Allah.

 I  knew my husband around 2004 ... We knew each other from Internet. It took us so much time to finally decided to be together in holy marriage. Many things had to think about and calculated.... But hey... love is not a math that we can calculate😍 
I'm not exactly remember why we decided (finally) to marry .... after my first visit to Turkey in 2008, one year after that I married my husband 😃

Well, enough about old story of us.. I'll tell you many thing again later... We just want to grateful to Allah that we are still now having each other with great love from HIM.
So for just remembering our 5th year of marriage, I made this cake. I know my husband likes cheesecake a lot s much s he likes chocolate cake... so I decided to make this Red velvet cake with cheesecake in between. For garnish, I use classic vanilla butter cream flowered with small red fondant flower (I have small amount of -don't know what to do-fondant in my refrig).

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Labneh (strained Yogurt) Cheesecake

Selam everybody ...... Merhaba from Turkey....

I was happy with my previous experiment using "cheese" from drained yogurt. I made a delish "cheese" souffle that now become 'most request' in my family ^,^

To make this Cheesecake, you need to drain plain thick yogurt to separate the water in cheesecloth-lined strainer for at least 24 hours before. From 1 kg yogurt I get about 860 ~ 900 gr drained yogurt 'Cheese' (it depends the thickness of yogurt you use)

If you using electric oven which has two side heat source (up and down heat source) be careful not to burn the surface-like I did here-to perform more beautiful good looking cheesecake. Recognize your oven to produce correct heat (even your oven has temperature setting). You might need to cover lightly your cheesecake with aluminium foil when you notice it's going to burn much.

But even my cheesecake surface is slightly burnt, it doesn't affect the silky and delish taste of this everybody's favorite dessert. With various jam topping, you and family can enjoy each personal taste. 

Maybe you would think that cheesecake made of yogurt has too much sourness taste in result...well...One thing I can say that each yogurt product has different quality and sourness. In Turkey we have few kind of yogurt for example; kaymaklı or kaymaksız. Kaymaklı is more creamy and less sourness than kaymaksız. And mostly turkish yogurt are very thick compare yogurt products I found in Indonesia which mostly thinner.

But again... it's back to your personal palate and taste.

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Japanesse style CheeseCake with Lemon Candied Topping

Selam Everybody...Merhaba from Turkey.

Who doesn't like cheese cake? I'm one of you... Fan of it. And if you follow my blog you will notice that mostly my family dessert are cheesecake! 

After tried many kind of cheesecake, today I make different kind from my previous post, it's Japanesse style cheese cake.. try it also in your kitchen and you will find out the different between new york style cheese cake @(^,^)@

Ingredients:
- 200 g cream cheese at room temperature.
- 80 ml ​​whipped cream
- 50 g unsalted butter, plus for greasing pan.
- ⅓ cup all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup cornstarch
- Lemon Zest of 1 large lemon
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- ¼ tsp fine salt
- ½ cup caster sugar
- 4 large eggs. Separate yellow from white

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TIRAMISU CHEESECAKE

This is really great combination for Cheese cake lover and Tiramisu lover ... Cheesecake with tiramisu flavor. It's even surprising me how wonderful this dessert being in our family dessert table.. Everybody love it!

@(^,^)@

For an 8 "springform pan

Ingredients:

• 150 gr lady finger (about 16 large biscuit)
• 25 gr butter. Melted. Plus for greasing pan.
• 1 tablespoon strong instant coffee. Dissolve with 3 tablespoons hot water, set aside.
• 500 g cream cheese. Room temperature.
• 1 cup caster sugar.
• 1 whole large egg, at room temperature.
• 1 tbsp plain flour
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch.

For the topping:

• Chocolate cream frosting ready mix
• Shaved semi sweet cooking chocolate.

Method:

1) Rub  8 "(± 20 cm in diameter) springform pan evenly. Cover bottom of the pan with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 175 ⁰C, place one pan fill with water on bottom rack of oven. Prepare another rack in center of oven to put cheese cake later.

2) Crush lady finger with food processor, pour melted butter and 2 tablespoons coffee solution alternately, pulse until they just combine well. Press the crumbs at the bottom of springform pan, set aside in refrigerator.

3) In a large bowl, combine cream cheese and caster sugar, beating well until smooth, mix in remaining 1 tablespoon coffee solution and eggs, beat until blended. Turn off mixer.

4) Mix in flour and cornstarch, Use manual whisker stir until blended and no lumps. Pour into prepared pan. Place on middle rack of the oven and bake for 45 ~ 50 minutes until center is set. Slightly open the oven door and turn off the heat. Let the cheese cake cool in oven about 30 minutes before removed from the oven. Chill before decorated with toppings. Here I use ready-mix chocolate cream smeared on the surface of my cheese cake then sprinkle with shaved semi sweet chocolate. Chill in refrigerator before serving minimum 2 hours.


Enjoy.

It's Chosen daily Top 9 at Foodbuzz , June 17 2011. http://www.foodbuzz.com/top9?date=2011-06-17

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Strawberry Cheesecake

Who doesn't like cheese cake? I think everybody like it and even more.. addict of it :)) .. like my hubby.. I think he addict cheesecake or anything made from cheese :))

it's my another recipe of cheese cake beside Brownies tangerine cheese cake, Brownie Cheese cake, Cheddar cheese cake with fruits topping, and other cheese cake you can check on "Cheese" section.

@(^_^)@

 Ingredients:

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Cheddar Cheesecake with Fruits Topping

Selam everybody..Merhaba from Turkey.

my another Cheddar Cheesecake post. My previous post was Cheddar cheese Cupcake . After succeed with Cup cake trial, I was trying to make a bigger dessert, cheddar cheese cake. I use mix fruit as topping. Beside pomegranate jam  I also use fresh kiwi and fresh navel oranges. But of course topping your cheese cake is about your own style and taste. Just be more creative and have fun with it d(^_^)b

The ingredients and method is almost the same with the cupcake, only you will need 7" fixed based baking pan (If you are using springform pan, make sure it's wrap tidily with heavy duty-aluminium foil to make it waterproof). You also need bigger pan for water bath baking. Fill it with hot water. Set a side.


Ingredients A:

- 1 fully press cup grated unsalted cheddar cheese.

- 130 ml whole milk

- 40 gr unsalted butter

Ingredients B:

- Sifted ¼ cup all purpose flour. 

- Sifted ¼ cup cornstarch.

Ingredients C:

- 4 medium egg yolks

- 1 tsp lemon zest

Ingredients D:

- 4 medium egg whites

- ¾ cup caster sugar

- 1 ½ tsp lemon juice

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Cheddar Cheese Cup cake

It's like Japanese Cheesecake style except I use unsalted cheddar cheese instead of normal cheese cream and I made it as cupcake. Pretty cute though. The texture's so light and as soft as cotton. You can eat them with or without your favorite jam. But mostly cheesecake (cheese cup cake) is better goes along with fruits jam.

 Here I use my pomegranate jam as topping and adding the flavor.

Things You will need and how to make that cute yummy cupcake:

Preheat your oven at 160 deg C. We will need a pan for a water bath, fill it with hot water. Careful not too much water to pour. simply estimate your muffin pan will not sink or float much.

Ingredients A:

- 1 fully press cup grated unsalted cheddar cheese.

- 130 ml whole milk

- 40 gr unsalted butter

* Double boil all ingredients A until melted. Quick stirring while doing this melting work. remove from heat and let it slightly warm.

Ingredients B:

- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour

- 1/4 cup cornstarch 

* Mix ingredients B into cheese mixture. Stir well until smooth and  no more lump

Ingredients C:

- 4 medium egg yolks

- 1 tsp lemon zest

* Mix in all ingredients C. Set aside after everything well blended.

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Brownie Tangerine Cheesecake

I'm enjoy going and walking around in Farmer market. I can see many various color from fruits, vegetables, local (traditional) ready food and local hospitality. Mostly people see me in curious way with smile in their face, yes, it's because my Asia look among Them  :D  

Start early winter I can find many kind of orange or other fruits that mostly we find it in winter. Like this mandarin orange (tangerine orange), I bought 5 kg for 5 Turkish Lira (around US$ 3.5). Pretty much to make many kind of food or dessert. Well.. maybe I can try to make Cheesecake with tangerine... and voallaa... Before the cake really ready, my mouth already watering :) 

I served it with my Pomegranate jam as sauce...hmm...Yummy!

This cheese cake I made brownie as base instead of biscuit crumb.

Ingredient and how to make brownie base:

1) Prepare your 7" springform pan. Grease with margarine. Preheat oven on 180 deg C.

2) Melted 80 gr dark cooking chocolate together with 50 gr unsalted butter over double boiler. Remove from heat. whisk in 1/2 cup caster sugar, 2 eggs one at the time. Whisk until sugar dissolve. 

3) Whisk in 1 tablespoon whole milk. Mix in 1/2 cup flour. Whisk just until everything well combine. Pour in springform pan and bake 10 ~ 15 minutes. Let your brownie base cool.

 For the cheesecake:
- 450 gr Cream cheese. softened on room temperature.
- 1 cup caster sugar.
- 3 large eggs
- 40 ml juice from tangerine orange.

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Kue Keju Kukus ( Indonesian Steamed Cheese Cake)

Yes, it's Steamed Cheese cake. Of course it's different from other cheese cake that you ever seen-e.g New york cheese cake or German cheese cake. 

But this "Kue Keju" - that we usually call it- already become my favorite (and everybody Else's fave) since I was a kid. Mostly we use cheddar cheese for this cake and for some other cakes/ desserts. I think it's the easiest cheese to find in Indonesia. We eat and make anything with this kind of cheese. Of course there are also other kind of cheese, but this one- I think- is most common one since I was a kid until now.

When my huby saw me made this cake, he asked: Is it for dessert or main course? @(^_^)@  Because he usually eat this cheddar cheese with bread as main meal. Well.. after he eat and taste it... he said it's differently delicious.. hahahaha...

Ingredients:
- 2 whole eggs 
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup caster sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2/3 cup flour
- 1/4 cup powdered milk
- 1 tbsp corn starch
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder.
- 1/2 cup grated unsalted cheddar cheese
- 100 gr unsalted butter. Melted.

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No Bake pumpkin cheesecake

Who would not like cheese cake? All dessert if made from cream cheese .. certainly produce a delicate taste and must be nyum-nyum ... But not once or twice I also fail failed to make some cheese cake-cracking looks at surface mostly become my problem .. but still it taste yummy (^_^)

This time I want to try making non-bake version, other than easy, it's also more delicate. While now days is pumpkin season, I have an idea to make it cheese cake non bake version. I admit, its surface is less pretty, I want to make some kind of swirl motif on it to make a more attractive, but lack of expert, it look like this, but ... just enjoy it .. Next time would be more beautiful (^_^)

Just Want To share my simple recipe
Ingredient I:
- 20 ~ 25 ginger snap cookies, finely crush. For Ginger snap recipe you can see here
- 50 g unsalted butter. Melted.
Ingredients II:
- 225 g cream cheese
- 1 / 2 cup caster sugar
- 1 / 4 cup whole milk
- 1 / 2 tsp vanilla extract.
- 1 tsp Lemon Zest
Ingredients III:
- 450 g cream cheese
- 1 / 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 / 2 cup brown sugar
- 1 / 4 cup whole milk
- 1 1 / 2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 / 4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 / 2 teaspoon nutmeg powder (from grated nutmeg)
Materials IV:
- 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin powder, dissolve it with 1 / 4 cup water in small sauce pan.

Method:
1) Making basic crust: Mix ginger snap crust with melted butter until blended. Then press to the bottom of 7 or 8 " springform pan . Cover with plastic film and store in refrigerator.
2) Makin filling: In a food processor (or you could use blender), mixed materials II. Blend until smooth. Place it into medium bowl. set aside.
3) By using a food processor or blender, mix ingredients III. Blend until smooth. Place into a large bowl. set aside.
4) Heat over low heat, gelatin mixture until gelatin dissolves and clear. Take 1  and 1 / 2 tbsp gelatin solution and mix into medium bowl cream cheese, stir well. mix remaining gelatin into a large bowl cream-pumpkin mixture and stir well.
5) Take springform containing the crust, pour pumpkin-cream cheese mixture from big bowl. Then slowly add cream cheese, make a motif by swirl it with table knife or metal skewer.
6) Cover with a thin plastic film and chill in the refrigerator for at least 5 hours before serving.
Enjoy your pumpkin cheese cake (^_^)

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Brownie CheeseCake.

Another variation of Cheese Cake. Biscuit crumbs mostly used as a base of Cheese cake. This time I want to try using chocolate Brownie as a heavy foundation of cheese cake a la  New York cheese cake . And the Brownie I copy from "Aneka resep Brownies" (Brownies recipe book) published by 'Gramedia' Indonesia.

And the result ... hmmmm ... combination of sweet chocolate brownies and soft new york cheese cake .. guaranteed will not simply  take just one piece.

Materials.
For Chocolate Brownie:

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CHEESECAKE WITH BLACKBERRY JAM

Selam. Merhaba from Turkey.

I love this cake because it's so soft and delicate.. can not avoid to eat more than one piece.. first time you read the recipe, maybe you think the step so complicated, but actually it's simple as long as you follow step by step.

Ingredients A:

1) ½ cup whole milk
2) 40 g unsalted butter
3) 125 g cream cheese

Ingredients B:
1) ½ cup flour
2) 1 full tablespoon cornstarch
3) 2 egg yolks
4) 1 teaspoon lemon juice / lemon
5) 1 tsp lemon Zest

Ingredients C:
1) 3 Whites egg
2) ½ cup granulated sugar

Ingredients D:
Blackberry jam 1 tablespoon (or other fruit jam)
1 tablespoon warm water
Strawberry / peach / orange / kiwi, as your like for topping


How to make:
1. Prepare a 18cm baking dish, spread with butter, cover with baking paper, grease with butter again. If using a pan that can be dismantled confirm watertight pan (wrap with aluminum foil). Prepare marinade pan for water, fill with water until 1/4 only. Enter the water-filled pan to oven, pre-heat the oven to 160 ° C.


2. Mix ingredients A: butter, milk, and cream cheese in small saucepan, heat over low heat, stir until all ingredients melt and blend. Use medium heat so cream will not burn.

3.When the cream still warm, add flour and cornstarch (Ingredients B) into the pot of cream cheese. Stir until blended. put the egg yolks, lemon zest and lemon juice .Make sure all the ingredients perfectly blended. set aside.


4. Beat the egg whites, granulated sugar until the 'soft peak' . Add this egg whites into previous batter in 3 batches. Fold to combine well. Pour batter into greased pan and lined with baking paper. And water bath bake/au bain marie.


5. Bake for 45 minutes. Test with a toothpick. If still sticky, baking time can be added 10-15 minutes.
Note: recognize you own oven character, the surface of the cake should be golden yellow (not brown) 


6.After cake set, while it's warm, take out carefully the cake. Because the cheese cake is very delicate, be careful when flipped it.


7. For topping: warm blackberry jam with boiled water on the stove (just make it warm and can be mixed). Brush the surface of the cheese cake with jam. Garnish with blackberry. Or you can vary with other fruits as desired.


Enjoy.

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