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This cheese cake has caught my eyes for some time since I do this food blog walking. It’s basically everywhere in all Indonesian’s food blog. So I thought what’s the fuss all about, let’s give it a try then. I read the recipes and instructions plus tips really really carefully at this blog. One big problem that my oven is small! So I decided to make only half of the recipe. Then come another problem, don’t have the right pan for the au-bain marie. Got to make do with what I have. It says on the tip that the pan you use for the au-bain marie has to be shorter than the pan for the batter. Heh but I only got two loaf pans and they are just about the same height. Sigh….panic-mode-on. Then Peter got an idea, to put something inside the au-bain marie pan, so the pan for batter is higher. So we make do with two silicone muffin inside then pan. One problem solved, another problem came. The oven got too hot, after 45 mins the cake got brown already on top. Uh oh put the temperature down. Later on I found out from Peter’s mother that when using electric’s oven put the temperature 20C lower because electric oven tends to get too hot after some time, esp. if it was small. Allright then after 75 minutes as the recipes said the cake was still not done. Hmm thinking what could be wrong?? Oh the water was almost not touching the batter pan, so added some more hot water. After 120 minutes finally the cake was done. It was beautiful. 🙂 I decorated it with mandarine oranges and to stick them on the cake I used a kind of jelly. But of course you can do it with apricot glaze like the original recipe. We brought it to Peter’s parents and we had tea there. They really liked the cake. I personally like it too, it was soft, cottony, not too sweet, not too rich cheese taste. Definitely will make it again.
Recipes:
(Source: 35 Cheesecake Recipes Variation by Yasaboga)
Mix and sift:
50 gr flour (all purpose)
50 gr cornstarch
Ingredients:
– 60 gr unsalted butter
– 250 gr cream cheese, at room temperature
– 120 ml whipping cream
– 5 egg yolks
– 2 tsp grated lemon rind
– 5 egg whites
– 1/8 tsp salt
– 125 gr castor sugar
– 1 tsp lemon juice
Topping:
2 Tbs apricot glaze or jam
2 Tbs water
– Line the bottom of a round 22cm spring form with baking grease with butter or margarine and sprinkle flour on the surface.
– Heat the oven at 150 degree celcius.
– Put together in a sauce pan: butter, cream cheese and whipping cream. Cook au-bain marie on low heat, stir with a wisk until butter and cream cheese melted and nicely combined.
– Wait until the mixture is not so hot. Mix in flour mixture, blend well. Stir in yolks, blend well. Stir in grated lemon rind, blend well, set aside.
– Beat the egg whites until frothy, beat in sugar and lemon juice gradually while continue beating until it forms soft peaks.
– Spoon 1/3 of egg whites batter into cream cheese mixture, blend well. Fold in this batter to the remaining egg whites batter, blend well. Pour batter into round spring form pan, bake au bain marie (water bath) for approximately 75 minutes until the surface is golden yellow in color, and a tooth pick insert in the cake comes out clean, . Remove from oven, let cool.
– After the cake is completely cooled, transfer cake onto plate. Mix apricot glaze/jam and water, heat until all mix well. Brush the cake surface with this glaze, let cool.
 Happy Birthday Ruud!!! lang zal hij leven, lang zal hij leven, lang zal hij leven in de gloria!!!! Bagi yang di Indo, nyanyiin lagunya musiknya sama dengan lagu panjang umurnya…. It’s funny huh that those two songs have the same music. Now who’s stealing from who?? 😉
 For Ruud’s B’day party I made this cupcake. Since he is a football fan and computer freak so this is my interpretation of things related to him. And pleeeaseee people do not laugh seeing my cupcake!! Gw kan cuma pembuat cupcake jadi2an kekeke :p Cupcakes on top were suppose to look like football 😛 then the other two were suppose to resemble grass and football. But since I couldn’t find chocolate balls that looks exactly like football so I made do with those silver balls. Then the cupcakes in the bottom are supposed to look like laptop, @ sign and Mac Apple sign. All the drawings in the cupcakes are made by my personal artist 🙂 Some girls from the party. From left to right; Sarah, Ruud’s mother, Olivia, Me, Lusi, Dina
 My plate at the party. Rendang was made by me 🙂 using secret recipe….hahaha devil-laugh-mode-on. Then there were mie goreng, perkedel and sate ayam. Surprisingly all made by Olivia and Ruud. Hey Liv I thought you said you couldn’t cook!!! You could after all. Only the cap cay was from the local Chinese Restaurant.
Our friend Putu is going home this Friday to Bali. So her host family organized a surprise farewell party. We got there at 2.30pm but Putu was not there yet because she and an appointed friend was still out of the house. By 3pm finally they arrived and she was in for a big surprised. A nice surprised indeed. And as expected there were some tears but lots more of laughter. Goodbye Putu, heel veel success and I’m sure we will meet again either here or in Bali….or other places, you never know where the winds bring you. 🙂
 From left; Putu from Tilburg, Yeni, Putu who is going home, Me, Eni
And of course it wouldn’t be complete without my cupcake, the wannabe cupcake maker 😛 Ok people now don’t laugh….I couldn’t draw at all!!! So I appointed my very own artist aka Peter to do the drawing. The far right in the corner was meant to be suitcase if you guys are trying really hard to think what picture is that :p and in the bottom is a plane…yes it is a plane. While the two flags are supposed to represent Dutch and Indonesian flag :p
For Dina’s b’day party I made 20 mini cupcakes. I got the recipes from the same book that I used before from Sue McMahon but this time I made different taste with orange zest and chocolate sprinkles.
I got an insider info that Dina likes purple color so I made her pink and purple cupcake. I really like the result as it is really girly color 🙂 Thanks again Maki and Cupcake Momma for the inspiration.
Today to raise the occasion that we have a new cat, I made a special cupcake. Naah that is just nonsense, I have made a plan to make this cupcake last week because I just bought this on ebay.12-piece cupcake decorating set from wilton 😀 😀
it contains 8 disposable decorating bags, tip 1 M, 22, 12, 8 and 230.
Then for the recipe I used chocolate cupcake from this book. Cupcakes by Sue McMahon.
As for the baking cups I used a nice cup that I bought in ebay. They
look similar like that nice cup at cupcake momma. I tried and tried to find the very same stuff but unfortunately nobody sells that online :s
And here is the result. I am very happy with the 1 M tip, the recipe it’s very moist in the inside and the baking cup is also nice 🙂 For the topping I used normal buttercream and summer fruit; strawberry taken from my own little strawbrery bush, fresh cherry and mandarine orange.   
Today I made pancake for lunch with Berend. This Dutch kind of pancake is different from American one. While American pancake is thick Dutch kind is thin more like a French Crepe. We made some varieties; with chocolate sprinkles, cheese and banana. But I only managed to take picture of this one with banana.
Ingredients:
– 5 tbs all purpose flour
– 1 egg
– 2 tbs sugar
– 1/2 tsp salt
– 1/2 tsp vanilla sugar
– Banana, chocolate sprinkles, cheese or anything you fancy
How to make:
– Mixed all ingredients until it’s smooth either using a whisk or a hand mixer.
– Melt a little bit of butter in a pan and pour the batter.
– Put the topping on top just before the pancake batter got dry.
– Flip over and cook until its done.
Yesterday was a birthday party of two members of my host family, Vanessa the mother and Berend the son. She asked whether I could make sate ayam for the party. The people who were expected to come are approx 40 so we decided on making 150 pieces of sate. The last time I made sate was 40 pieces so I thought piece a cake.
We bought 8 double chicken fillet and 4 huge chicken thigh. Somehow I don’t really fancy sate made only from chicken fillet as they are tend to be too dry. Thigh on the other hand have some skins and fats on it which will make the sate juicy…hmm yummy.
After 2 hours finally I finished cutting them and put  them in neat sticks. pfiuh. After that I put them in marinade, the longer the better they say…so I put them overnight, hahaha.
The recipes for the marinade and sate sauce I got from resepnugraha. I really love their recipe. Have used it twice and always turned out really well.
At the party we served the sate with white rice, krupuk, fried onion, serundeng, kacang goreng, acar timun which I also made myself, and last French bread. Ok don’t ask me why, but that’s how Dutch people eat their sate, with French bread.
150 sate sticks gone in no time. People made lots of positive comments; who made them, they tasted really nice etc. I was so happy that it turned out really well. Three Hours of grilling in the balcony with 2 small electric grill together with my boyfriend was paid off.
Besides sate I also made cupcakes as a gift for Vanessa and Berend. 12 cupcakes in the green and blue color match as Berend’s bedroom. I made or actually my boyfriend made an attempt to make pirate’s face on the cupcake as it is also Berend’s favorite. I also put some writing on the cupcakes. Tried to make Vanessa but the surface was too small or rather my writing was too big hahaha. So I only managed to write Vaness. The cupcakes result was very good seeing my ability to decorate hahaha. Thank you for Mbak Yulia and Cupcake Momma for the inspiration.
My father is a real soto ayam lover, whether it’s soto madura, soto bandung or soto ayam. Every once a week or so he has to have his fix of soto ayam, made by himself of course. Because he never seems to be satisfied  if he buys soto in the warung. So there I was stuck with his favourite soto sometimes I just couldn’t face soto anymore because I
had enough. But since I am here, far from my father’s soto, I began to miss his soto and I had to make it myself if I want a decent taste.
Not that I’m saying that soto ayam in Holland are not decent, I just feel that the taste has been customized to western’s taste jadi istilah indonya ngga nendang gitu loh! :p
 Semalem bikin brownies. Ntah lagi kesambit apa kok bisa pengen bikin brownies. Tapi emang udah dari kapan itu pengen bikin, secara udah lama bener ga pernah bikin, ada 6 bulanan, w ew :-s Sampe lupa resep browniesku sendiri, pikir-pikir 10 menit untung inget. Hehehe. Ini d potonya aja, kalo mau yang asli ya dateng kesini d 😉
Buat jeng Dita yang pengen resep ini brownies, ini nih:
3 butir telur ayam
200 gr gula pasir
100 gr mentega tawar (bisa diganti dengan margarin atau minyak goreng tapi rasanya ntar ngga segurih kalau pake mentega)
150 gr dark cooking chocolate
125 gr self raising flour (atau diganti denga n tepung terigu biasa ditambah 1/2 sdt baking powder
25 gram coklat bubuk
sedikit vanilla bubuk
cara membuat:
1. cairkan mentega dan dark cooking coklat di dalam double boiler.
2. kocok telur dan gula pasir hingga rata dan kental.
3. masukkan self raising flour/( tepung terigu dan baking powder), coklat bubuk, vanilla bubuk, campuran mentega dan darkk cooking chocolate. aduk hingga rata.
4. tuang di loyang kotak 22×22 cm yang sudah di oles ment ega dan ditabur tepung.
5. panggang di oven dengan suhu 180C selama 40 menit.
ps : jika suka bisa ditambahkan kacang-kacangan seperti; almond, mente, walnut dsb, atau bisa juga ditambahkan kismis, keju. Lebih nendang d 😀
selamat mencoba!!!
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