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Raw vegan pumpkin cheesecake requires you to begin the process by staring with everyone's favorite part - the crust. Make vegan pumpkin cheesecake for a nine-inch pie plate with help from a raw vegan chef in this free video clip.
Diabetic strawberry cheesecake is a whole lot easier to make than you might at first thing that it's going to be. Get a diabetic strawberry cheesecake recipe with help from the Founding Director of NutriFit in this free video clip.
Diabetic New York cheesecake always needs to be prepared in a very specific way for maximum authenticity. Get a diabetic New York cheesecake recipe with help from a registered dietician in this free video clip.
The best part of cheesecake bars is the delicious cookie crumb crust. Make cheesecake bars with that great cookie crumb crust with help from an experienced culinary professional in this free video clip.
Just because cheesecake desserts are simple doesn't mean they aren't going to be fancy. Make simple, yet fancy cheesecake desserts with help from the owner of a bed and breakfast in this free video clip.
Organic strawberry cheesecake requires ground almonds to give it that rich nutty flavor. Make organic strawberry cheesecake with help from the owner of a bed and breakfast in this free video clip.
You don't have to go to a fancy restaurant to enjoy delicious gourmet style key lime cheesecake. Get a recipe that will allow you to make gourmet style key lime cheesecake at home with help from a self-taught pastry chef in this free video clip.
Lemon cheesecake balls are not true cheesecake; they are sweet cheese balls suitable for an appetizer or dessert. The dessert provides a texture and flavor reminiscent of real cheesecake. The balls don't require the involved preparation or cooking required of traditional cheesecakes, allowing you to prepare them quickly using only a few ingredients. Make the lemon balls the day before you need them. Early preparation saves you time later and gives the cheesecake balls a chance to chill and firm up inside the refrigerator over night.
Key limes add a juicy, tangy flavor to mixed drinks and desserts. If you have ever sliced open one of these tiny, green citrus fruits, you have probably seen the pale brown seeds inside. Gardeners in warm climates can plant these seeds to grow their own key lime trees. Key lime trees grown outdoors in a garden can reach 20 feet tall. The tree's glossy, handsome leaves also make attractive houseplants for indoor gardeners. Key lime seeds only germinate with a high soil temperature.
Cheesecakes originated in the agricultural heartlands of central and eastern Europe, where they began as high-protein meals for meatless days. Observant Jews would not eat meat and dairy products on the same day, and Christians had numerous fast days when meat would not be eaten. Cheesecakes and cheese-filled pastries provided a hearty alternative. Sweetened dessert cheesecakes eventually became more common, especially in the United States. Today, the best-known version is the rich New York-style cheesecake.
There are myriad types of cheesecake. Made with cream cheese, and often in a graham cracker crust, this is a rich and decadent dessert option. In addition to the standard cheesecake, there are fruit-topped, caramel and chocolate varieties. When making a cheesecake with chocolate, there are techniques that will help you with it. Learn how to apply chocolate topping and cheesecake and enjoy this sweet treat.
Cheesecake is one of the most popular and ubiquitous dessert items in America. It is also one of the trickiest desserts to perfect in home baking. Cheesecake requires precise and committed temperature control to achieve an attractive, uncracked surface. Even opening the oven door to check the cheesecake while it cooks compromises that goal. The best way to cool a cheesecake is gradually, allowing it to stay in the oven as it cools.
Strawberries have a very distinct flavor, full of sweetness and texture, making them the perfect treat for cooking activities. Strawberries offer fun cooking activities for chefs of all ages, from kids who love to eat strawberry JELL-O to adults looking to get romantic while they create and design their own chocolate covered strawberries together over a glass of wine.
Instead of sticking to the traditional appetizers, create mushroom crescents for your guests. Mushroom crescents are similar to puff pastries in appearance. The crescents are full of a sauteed mushroom mixture that bakes inside the crescent dough. The appetizers do not require a lot of hard work because you can make them from refrigerated crescent dough to save time. After you make the crescents, serve them with your preferred dipping sauce, such as marinara.
Sangria is wine-based drink with several kinds of fruit mixed in. The result is a sweet alcoholic drink that masks the bitterness that sometimes accompanies wine. It is not like some other alcoholic beverages that are consumed only to get intoxicated. Sangria can be an integral part of the overall flavor of a meal. Sangria comes from the Spain/Portugal region of Europe, but it is considered a favorite among people from all over the world.
Two major problems when baking cheesecakes are cracking and falling during the cooking or cooling process. Both can be avoided by following the recipe directions and a few tips from professionals. The primary reason the cheesecake splits is from the effects sudden temperature changes have on the eggs in the recipe. Falling is caused when the cake is not cooked at an even and regulated temperature. A cheesecake can also appear to have fallen if the outsides of the pan cook at a higher temperature than the center causing the cake to rise higher on the outer edges.
Butter makes a creamy condiment and a tasty cooking ingredient. Historically, butter had other uses as well. According to a butter fact sheet by the University of California Davis, ancient civilizations used this dairy product as a beauty compound and a medicine. If you bake or cook, you will find recipes that call for softened butter. When you need soft butter quickly, you will want to hasten the butter's malleability without ruining its texture. Prepare butter for baking using this butter softening method.
Strawberries start green, and then gradually turn white before protein causes it to turn the familiar red color, indicating that the strawberry is ready to be eaten. Red is a primary color, as is the color blue, so making a red strawberry turn blue is impossible unless you coat the strawberry in something blue. However, if you use a variety of strawberry that is naturally white, you can make it change color easily.
Cheesecake is a rich, luscious dessert, made with cream cheese, sugar and eggs and baked in a graham cracker crust. An easier way to get the flavor is to whip up an instant cheesecake using JELL-O Cheesecake Instant Pudding and Pie Filling and a ready-made crust. Just like other flavors of JELL-O instant pudding and pie mix, no baking is required. A pumpkin cheesecake filling is a tasty variation made with JELL-O mix, canned pumpkin and standard pumpkin pie spices added.
Cheesecakes are not technically a cake at all, which may contribute to why they crack so often. They are closer to a custard, which is another dessert that has problems with cracks because of the nature of the eggs that are used in them. Though cracks don't affect the taste, a cracked cheesecake is unsightly. There are a few ways to try and prevent the cracks from happening.
There are hundreds of types of strawberry cakes that are available if you're getting tired of the same old recipes, or just have an urge to try something new. Anytime you make a new cake with a fruit, you can be sure you're going to get the same great taste you're used to, but in a different style for variance.
Softened butter requires less effort to blend with flour, sugar and other necessary baking ingredients than cold, hard butter. Normally, you would remove the butter from the refrigerator two hours or more before you need it for baking. However, last-minute baking sessions can leave you with hard butter that's nearly impossible to blend. Directly heated butter doesn't soften, it melts into a buttery puddle that is useless for baking. It is possible to soften butter more quickly, but it does still require some time in advance of your baking session.
You can keep butter in a freezer for approximately six months, and this is a useful method to ensure that you never run out of butter when you need it the most. Unfortunately, if you used up your last stick of butter from the refrigerator, you will be stuck with frozen butter. Frozen butter isn't soft enough to mix in your recipe, and it won't smear well enough to give your baking sheets a nonstick surface. You will need to soften the frozen stick of butter before you can use it.
Whether you are melting chocolate, white chocolate, butterscotch or peanut butter baking chips to drizzle over the top of your cheesecake, you have to use a similar technique to melt the chips smoothly and without thickening or scorching. The specific flavors of the baking chips are less important than the fact they contain cocoa butter as a main ingredient, which gives baking chips a creamy, chocolate-like consistency. Cocoa butter requires gentle, consistent heating in order to melt evenly.
A combination of sweet, slightly sour and creamy ingredients together create a distinctive cheesecake flavor that makes this cake stand out above chocolate cake or other traditional desserts. New York cheesecake has a super sweet, rich texture that melts in your mouth, especially when it's drizzled with raspberry or caramel sauce. However, you can also tempt your taste buds with all sorts of new cheesecake flavors by adding crushed Oreo cookies, nuts and other additions to the recipe.
Although the primary ingredients of pumpkin pie cheesecake, pumpkin puree and cream cheese, are wet, the flavoring and sweetener in the cake are dry and can be mixed together beforehand to make assembling the cheesecake a snap. If you love pumpkin cheesecake, you can assemble several jars full of dry mix and store them in the pantry so that you're ready to bake a cake at a moment's notice.
Traditional cheesecake comes with a crust that's made with crushed graham crackers, sugar and melted butter. While this basic recipe has stood the test of time, creative cooks like to change things up with their favorite recipes. As long as you're making a creative cheesecake flavor, switch your crust ingredients to come up with an entirely new cheesecake flavor for your next dessert occasion.
Tiramisu is a classic Italian desert made from layers of mascarpone custard and sponge fingers, or "lady fingers." While there are many variations on the recipe, some adding fruit, others drenching the sponge in liqueur or piling high with cream, the mascarpone custard remains a constant throughout. The only trouble is that the delicate, silken custard has a tendency to break, or curdle. Happily, it is possible to fix a broken tiramisu.
Few people can turn down an offer for a slice of creamy, decadent cheesecake. Whether you love plain original cheesecake or a complicated chocolate and peanut butter creation, nearly all are served with some type of topping. Fruit toppings are common, particularly on plain cheesecake, but whipped topping and other more creative toppings are often available as well. If you make your own cheesecake at home, choose a topping that you know you or your guests will enjoy.
New York City consists of five boroughs including Manhattan, Staten Island, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. Just across the East River from Manhattan, Queens extends all the way to the Rockaway neighborhood on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. About 2.3 million people live in Queens, known for its cultural diversity with communities from all around the world.
Pumpkins are useful beyond carving into Halloween decorations. Pureed pumpkin in cans or made from fresh pumpkins adds fiber and a sweet flavor to many baked milk-based dishes. It pairs with a milk base and is baked in custards and pies. Fully incorporating the pumpkin and milk base completely before baking will ensure the best results for the recipe.
Softening your butter expedites baking and also makes buttering your bread easier. Properly softened butter yields under firm pressure without becoming a runny liquid. While softening butter isn't difficult, it does require specific steps. Attempting short cuts or trying to speed-up the softening process using heat creates burnt, unpleasant tasting butter. Exposure to immediately high heat levels separates the milk lipids in the butter, which causes burning and makes your baking recipe less than sumptuous.
Cheesecakes that develop cracks on top in the oven or during the cooling process are a problem for professional and home bakers alike. The long baking time and cooling time required by most cheesecake recipes can lead to severe moisture loss and cracking. With a little extra attention and a couple of common kitchen accessories, however, you can produce smooth, uncracked cheesecakes.
So you're ready to bake a cake, a pie or cookies, and you've got all the ingredients laid out...except the butter, an essential ingredient. All the butter in the fridge is gone, and you only have butter that is frozen solid in the refrigerator. Don't worry, you don't have to let it sit on the counter and wait for it to soften and you don't have to put it in the microwave, which will just end up melting the butter, not softening it. The fastest way to soften frozen butter without melting it is with indirect heating using hot water.
It's really annoying when you're preparing your toast and you lose chunks of bread because of hard, solid butter. You end up with mangled toast and lots of crumbs in the butter. But while it's always easiest to use whipped or spreadable butter, there are ways to get hard butter soft enough to spread with ease.
Many recipes call for softened butter, which makes it easier to blend with other ingredients. You may be tempted to use a microwave oven, but that makes butter lose its velvety texture. You'll get better results from a couple simple methods.
Cooking is an art that is essential to everyday living. For the art to be completed and presented, you must take careful action to provide the necessary ingredients. When a recipe calls for thawed or soft butter, but you don't have time to let the butter sit out for hours, you need to find other ways to quickly thaw butter.
A bite of luscious, creamy cheesecake paired with crunchy graham cracker crust is delicious on its own but cheesecake can also be adorned with a variety of toppings, which lend their assorted textures and tastes to this dessert.
To decorate a pumpkin cheesecake, pick a topping that will complement its flavor and consider the occasion when you will serve it. If the dessert is for a Halloween party, add a seasonal decoration, like a spider web. When baking the cake for a dinner gathering, make it look elegant with a cream topping. Or if the cheesecake is just for your family to enjoy, decorate the top with nuts for extra flavor.
Whether you're baking a plain cheesecake or making it flavored with chocolate, strawberry, pumpkin or a hundred other popular flavors, you can make the cake more interesting by cutting out the center and filling it with your topping. Cutting the center of a cheesecake doesn't need to be difficult; you just need to have the right tools for the job. With a couple of quick modifications to your recipe, you can have an elegant-looking cutout in the center of your cheesecake.
Cheesecake is a dessert made primarily from cream cheese, eggs and sugar. While there are scores of recipes encompassing different types of cheesecake such as chocolate, amaretto, pumpkin and cappuccino, these cheesecakes all have one unfortunate thing in common. If not properly prepared, the cheesecake will split on top either during or after the cooking process. While the cheesecake won't taste any different, a cracked cheesecake is not as appealing to the eye. However, by implementing a few tips while you are preparing the cheesecake, you can reduce the probability of it splitting.
Homemade strawberry shortcake is a delicious dessert that is commonly served in the summertime when strawberries are in season. Visually appealing as well as tasty, strawberry shortcake is made with a layer of shortcake, followed by strawberries and topped with whipped cream. When time is of the essence but you want to make a dessert that looks special, substituting Hostess Shortcakes for homemade shortcake allows you to skip the baking process and go directly to the process of putting the dessert together.
Many recipes call for softened butter, whether it is to be creamed with sugar for cookies or rubbed on chicken or turkey before baking. While butter can be softened by leaving it at room temperature, it can take up to an hour to be ready to use it in your recipe. You can speed up the process by softening the butter using your hands instead of a microwave, oven or stovetop. Your butter will be softened quickly and ready for use in preparing your recipe.
You can find French and New York cheesecakes in restaurants all over the world. The difference between the two is in the ingredients and texture. People admire the New York cheesecake for its thickness and they like French cheesecake because it is light. The one thing these desserts have in common is cheese, the most essential part of any cheesecake.
An extract is a concentrated solution of flavoring and can be made from just about any food. You can use strawberries to make an extract that can be added to desserts, toppings or sauces. The benefit of making your own strawberry extract is that it will be all natural and not include alcohol, which is used as the base in most commercially manufactured extracts.
Limes, the lesser used cousin of the lemon, are great components in zesty recipes. The lime's bright, burst of flavor is harvested from its skin and it's light green meat. Popular Persian limes grow year round. Smaller, sour key limes are available from June to August. For the best flavor in your drink and food recipes, use fresh limes. Cooking with fresh limes will give you and your family vitamin C and healthy antioxidants.
Few things complement strawberry ice cream, angel food cake and pancakes as well as fresh strawberry sauce. During the summer months, when you have an abundance of plump strawberries from your garden or a farmer's market, use the fruit to make your own sauce. The sweet berries blend with a few other simple ingredients to create a tasty, sweet-tart topping for your favorite desserts. Be sure to use only ripe strawberries when making the sauce for the best taste.
When selecting wines to pair with various foods, consider keeping the flavors simple and complementary. There should be unity and equality between the wine and the paired foods. Match sweets with sweet wines. With strawberry cheesecake, you have two options on finding a suitable matching wine. The first option is to pair the wine with the sweetness of the cheesecake. The other choice is to choose a wine that will match the sweet taste of the strawberries.
An ice cold soda pop is a great way to refresh yourself on a hot summer day. But if you want an even bigger sugar rush, why not decorate the outside of that glass of soda with your favorite candy? Candy garnishes are a great way to add color and visual interest to a regular glass of soda, making it a fun treat for your kids or as a nonalcoholic drink at a casual party.
Cheesecake is usually made with a cream cheese-based filling on top of cake or cookie crumbs and baked in a springform pan. When baked right, cheesecake is light and fluffy, unlike mass-produced cheesecakes, which can be very dense. Since cheesecakes don't rise like many types of baked goods, it can be somewhat more difficult to tell when one is done. Luckily, there are a few proven ways to tell when a cheesecake is baked to perfection.
