I recently joined the Baking Partner's group, a group of enthusiastic home bakers whose common aim is to bake their way through interesting and delicious baking challenges in order to learn, master, critic and perfect various baking techniques and recipes.
The theme for this month's challenge was "Cheesecake," and as part of the challenge we had to bake a cheesecake following one of these recipes.....
- Cotton Soft Japanese Cheesecake from Diana's Dessert as by Reeni of Cinnamon and spice and everything nice.
- Eggless Mango Cheesecake Recipe (DivineTaste.com) as suggested by Sweatha of Experiments, Emotions , Experiences with Food.
- Perfect Cheesecake Recipe by Simply recipes.
- Eggless cheesecake from Baking Without Eggs by Rosemarie Emro (St. Martin's Press, 1999).
I chose to bake the Cotton Soft Japanese Cheesecake, also known as Chiizukeiki as a fellow blogger Samantha pointed out. and this turned out to be a real challenge for me... I actually tried the recipe thrice....
in my first attempt, my heart sank along with my bake :(
though the cake was soft and tasted great... it could not stand tall...
so i decided to bake it again... second time it was too firm and too dry... i think i overbaked and also used an extra helping of flour and that messed my cake...
(for this i used almost the same recipe as below except that i used1/3 cup of APF instead of 1/4 cup and baked the cake for 1 hour 20 minutes )
so i gave it another try ... and the third time i got a little experimental. i tried marbling my bake... and though the marbling looked fine... there were issues with the cake...
care to know what i did... then read on....
