Are you still looking for a halloween treat? I have got one for you. I mean, it is not especially a halloween dessert, but i think it suits the occasion with the right decoration… I hope you guys like cheesecake. If you do, you will love this. If not, you will possibly like it as well :D.
The cheese batter is a good classic recipe I found in Dr. Oetker`s book “Cheesecakes”. To make it suitable for halloween, i topped it with oreo crumbles and blueberries. This way it looked black, a good ground for those cute chocolates.
Top with any holiday sweets you like.
Halloween Cheesecake
300 g fresh or frozen blueberries
2 tbsp butter
1 pckt + 5 oreos
75 g (1/3 cup) soft butter
500 g (18 oz) lowfat quark
75 g (1/3 cup) sugar
1 pck vanilla sugar or 1 tsp vanilla extract
5 eggs (divided into egg whites and egg yolks)
75 g (2/3 cup) wheatlet
grated pale of 1 lemon
juice of 1/2 lemon
25 g (2 tbsp) sugar
1 pinch salt
Transfer the frozen blueberries into a bowl. If you use fresh fruit, wash the berries and put them in a bowl as well. Preheat the oven to 160°C (325°F).
Cruble all the oreos from the bag. Melt the 2 tbsp of butter in a small saucepan and mix it with the oreo crumbles. Press the mixture down evenly at the bottom of a round 26 cm (10´´) pan. Set aside
Cream the butter in a medium-sized bowl until it becomes fluffy. Add the lowfat quark, 75 g (1/3 cup) sugar, vanilla sugar/ extract, egg yolks, wheatlet lemon pale and lemon juice. Cream untill everything is incorporated well.
Beat the eggwhites with 25 g (2 tbsp) sugar and salt in another bowl until they are stiff. Carefully add the mass to the other ingredients with a whisk.
Transfer the cream into the pan and put the blueberries on top. Crumble the 5 oreos and spread the crumbles onto the cake. Bake for about 60 minutes and let the ceke cool well before serving it.
I like to have something with milk for breakfast at the weekend. Mostly I eat oatmeal or some granola with fruit or wheat cornflakes… not that sweet stuff. But one day I had a craving for this caramel chocolate crunch… LION CEREALS!
So what to do now? Search for a good rice krispie treats recipe. I found one on Bakers Royale, a very good one. As there is a chocolate topping and some chocolate inthe marshmallow mass, I added some super chewy caramel toffees. :)
I hope you like this version :). Enjoy with a glass of milk!
Chocolate and Caramel Rice Krispie Treats
(for a 30 cm x 20 cm (13´´ x 9´´) pan)
2 tbsp butter
60 g (2 oz) chocolate chips
150 g (10 1/2 oz) marshmallows
6 cups Lion Cereals
12 caramel toffees
Topping:
180g (6 oz) semi-sweet chocolate
3 tbsp butter
6 caramel toffees
Butter your pan. Cut the caramel toffees into small cubes and set aside. Melt the chocolate chips, butter and marshmallows in a large saucepan over low (!) heat. Stir constantly until the mass is smooth. Add the Lion Cereal and caramel toffee and combine quickly. Transform the mixture into the prapared pan and press it down using a spoon. Let cool for at least 30 minutes.
To prepare the topping, cut again the toffee into small cubes. Melt the chocolate together with the butter in 3 or 4 steps à 30 seconds in the microwave or over a water bath. When the mixture is smooth, pour it on top of the rice krispie treats and spread it evenly. Don’t forget to spread the cut toffee on top :).
Are you already in a Halloween-y mood? I am. Especially every Tuesday, when I have to get up at 6.15 am to be in time for my earliest lesson, which starts at 6.55, before the regular first lessons at school. It is creepy enough to be the only one who wakes up when it is still dark outside, but wandering through my room, afraid that any piece of Latin grammar might jump out of my school bag and confront me with its difficulties makes it even worse.
So… this feeling inspired the design of these cupcakes and tiny cake. I used my oreo muffin recipe for this, because my brother loves it. I put some of the dough into my mini cake pan (11,5 cm = 4,5´´), about the amoungt I use for 3 cupckes. I used half of the ingredients and got out 1 mini cake and 9 muffins in the end.
When the cakes were cooled, I beat about 250 ml (1 cup) heavy cream and added green food coloring. I think this minty green looks ugly enough :P. Then I placed a good amount of the stuff on top of the cupcakes/cake. Covered them messy. Then put some chocolate eyes on top and added crushed oreos or red colour icing. Sweet, isn’t it? And super easy to make. More scary ideas shall follow. :)
