Showing posts with label cheesecake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheesecake. Show all posts

Sunday, April 27, 2008

April's Cheesecake Popsicles! by Les Daring Bakers

As promised yesterday...
The Daring Bakers' Cheesecake Popsicles.
This delicious treat is proudly brought to you by Elle of Feeding My Enthusiasms (whose blog has a lovely fable about the whole experience), Deborah of Taste and Tell and the letter Q.
Check out one of their blogs for the recipe.
Désolée les filles, je n'ai pas le temps de traduire en Français cette fois-ci. Raison (en Anglais) à la fin de ce billet.

I'll let you guess the makeup of these little treats. Hint: if you say cheesecake and chocolate you're smokin' hot. It's Vanilla-flavored cheesecake (I didn't have time to be original this time, reason unveiled at the end of this post). This is a fantastic recipe, much better than most cheesecakes I've had. I may try it with a tad less sugar and half light cream cheese next time just as a cheesecake.
I think this is a perfect kind of party treat for kids' parties. The next time I have one to plan for, I will definitely make some of these.

The only thing I didn't do was add vegetable shortening to the chocolate so it set pretty fast which meant I had to move pretty quickly. Oh and I couldn't find lollipop sticks so at first I used cut straws, which were clearly not sturdy enough once capped by a cheesecake ball, so there are cut bamboo skewers inside the straws to stabilize the whole thing. Thanks to A. for saving me on that one by showing up with bamboo skewers just as I pulled them out of the freezer to coat them in chocolate.
And yes, what you see beading on them is water unfortunately, that was quicker than I expected. Sorry the pictures don't look so great because of it.

Decorations were whatever I had handy in the kitchen so mini crunchy chocolate balls, mini white chocolate chips, chocolate flakes, multi chocolate sprinkles, party bead sprinkles, and at the end I ran out of chocolate coating so I swirled it as decoratively as I could on the remaining cheesecake balls (if there be tasters who did not want chocolate coating, 'twould be perfect for them).
And now my dear friends, I must run off. Um, I'm getting married at the end of next month, that's the reason why I'm not around these days and have to be so short. In fact, I may just be able to post one more time before it happens and I probably won't be doing the DB Challenge next month. You understand don't you... Thanks for stopping by as always and check out the other Daring Bakers' Popsicle posts!

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Monday, September 17, 2007

A Yuzu Interlude - Un Interlude au Yuzu

The management wishes to inform you that we have been experiencing technical difficulties with the internet due to power outages this past week which have been, thankfully, completely resolved today, and that regularly scheduled posts will resume shortly. In the meantime, I have a confession to make... I cheated on Pierre Hermé twice this past week. (I can hear the collective gasp from here).
Yes dear friends, I was tempted, and I succumbed. But I think you will find that these were worthy opponents.
My first time was with one Sadaharu Aoki, at his beautiful shop located at 35, Rue de Vaugirard in the 7th arrondissement. I'd been meaning to go there for some time, but really just couldn't work up the courage to cheat on PH. I'd actually been wanting to get a matcha tea éclair from there, but when I walked in and took a good look at the options, I immediately decided I wanted to try the yuzu tartlet (because, as you can tell, I'm having a little obsession with yuzu at the moment). And ohhh it was succulent. A yuzu cream that tasted like a refined version of the lemon cream according to PH but slightly bitter because yuzu is a citrus fruit that is quite bitter which was utterly perfect for me, over a very thin layer of chocolate and hazelnuts at the bottom of the shell. I savored it very slowly, not wanting it to end.

The second indiscretion was with an old favorite, Sascha Finkelsztajn on the Rue des Rosiers in the Marais (4th arrondissement), and their cheesecake, which I swear is the best cheesecake in the world. I got the original kind rather than lemon-flavored or with cherries or other things. I have nothing to add, except that if you go to L'As du Falafel, it's the yellow shop across the street, and you really shouldn't miss it. They also have great Challah bread, tarama, eggplant puree and other wonderful things. They've been there since 1947. Here ends the advertisement.

Le French...


La direction vous informe qu'elle a été en proie à des difficultés techniques du à une panne de courant la semaine dernière qui, heureusement, a été définitivement résolu aujourd'hui et que la publication régulière de billet va reprendre incessamment sous peu. Dans l'intérim, j'ai quelque chose à vous avouer... J'ai trompé Pierre Hermé deux fois la semaine dernière. (J'entends le cri de désarroi collectif d'ici).
Oui mes amis, j'ai été tentée, et je n'ai pas résisté. Mais je pense que vous trouverez ces adversaires de taille.
La première fois était avec le nommé Sadaharu Aoki, dans son magnifique magasin du 35, Rue de Vaugirard dans le 7ème arrondissement. Je voulais y aller depuis un certain temps, mais je n'arrivais pas à délaisser mon PH adoré. En principe, je voulais prendre un éclair au thé matcha, mais étant entrée et voyant les choix à ma disposition, j'ai immédiatement choisi de prendre une tartelette au yuzu (parce que, comme vous pouvez le constater, j'ai une petite obssession avec le yuzu en ce moment). Et elle était tellement succulente. Une crème au yuzu avec un goût encore plus raffiné que celui de la crème au citron selon PH mais légèrement amère car le yuzu est un agrume très amer, ce qui est absolument parfait pour moi, sur une couche très fine de chocolat et de noisettes sur le fond de pâte. Je l'ai savouré très lentement, voulant faire durer l'instant.

La deuxième indiscrétion était avec un favori, Sascha Finkelsztajn dans la Rue des Rosiers dans le Marais, et leur cheesecake, qui je le jure est le meilleur cheesecake du monde. J'ai pris un morceau de cheesecake traditionel, au lieu de prendre celui au citron ou avec des cerises ou autre chose. Je n'ai rien à ajouter, si ce n'est que si vous allez à L'As du Falafel, c'est la boutique de l'autre côté de la rue, et vous ne devriez pas rater ça. Ils ont aussi du très bon pain Challah, du tarama, de la purée d'aubergines, et d'autres choses délicieuses. Ils sont là depuis 1947. Ici fin de la publicité.

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