Jessica, I'm not really sure with Nigella, but whenever I bake a cake with melted ingredients I usually cool it before adding it to the mixture. Like when I melt chocolate or cheese. I'm not sure why, it's just the way my mom does it lol. She said that it will make the cake expand better :)
Ahh she makes it sound soo easy and simple.. It can't be either of them, could it? The way she puts it, even a baby would be able to do this.. Ahh I love Chocolate and cooking, so Bravooo!
it's called a springform pan the side come right off so the cake doesn't break when you are trying to get it out. no flipping required. the water bath prevents the cheesecake from cracking which is usually what happens if you bake it the regular way
@Sstirr I was going to learn to cook, but i failed on the first page, it started "take a clean pan" Seriously i think this woman is amazing, she is intelligent, self confident, talented and down right gorgeous! ...and if she can get men interested in cooking then she is succeeding.
She's fab! I love the one where she makes the meringues and she's beating away st the mixture and purring ~"You have to beat until it forms stiff, white, creamy peaks" and then pokes her fingers in the bowl and licks them and is like "mmm perfect". Veiled Vulgarity - it rocks! She should write a song for Scooch!
She is married with children, so there are limits to what I can say, but she is very lovely, and they say the way to a man's heart goes through the stomach, but a shapely cook to go with it - unbeatable. Nigella is very beautiful, imho.
I don't know, what that tastes like, but as I just finished my own cheesecake a few minutes ago, I can say that she could have done better. It's easier and more delicious to melt the butter, let the sugar caramelise and then mix it with the crushed cookies. Also you get a better consistency, when you soften the cheese with sugar first and add the eggs one by one, not melting too strong from that point on. Foil isn't necessary, it's enough to put the waterfilled pan on the oven's bottom. (:
the sheer -amount- of subliminal references to 'jugs,' the script, the camera angles, the appearance of the assorted foodstuffs, the flash adds that pop on screen. I have to share my amazement at how obviously sexual this show is. The poor lady has kids, I wonder how she feels about it...
3/4 cup of sugar. Then a tablespoon of custard powder. If you don't have that use a tablespoon of corn flour with a teaspoon of sugar. Hope this helps.
Use a springform pan. Unlock the side latch and voila! Lift the pan side up and you'll have a perfect cheese cake. Don't forget to let cake cool off before remove from springform pan.
"Graham cracker crumbs need to be thwacked into submission" - Oh for the days Lady Minty Marchmand would "interrogate until it inquired in the usual way," as in Posh Nosh.
i'd say a cup was about 200 gr. and go from there. i dont have any measuring cups at home, but i can estimate by comparing it to all the measured containers bought from the store ;) it's called cooking with love.
I love her!! She always cooks likes she has her period or somethingx-D..(positively) Just soo ejoying it and loving the food in it's special way. And her recipes and way of cooking are just what I like. Go girl!=)
Listen to this. I made a similar cheesecake (a london cheesecake) few days ago, but that water bath turned into disaster, I was so winded up to try to make my first cheesecake and I just had to say to my guests that it was a pudding :((( For the next time I don't do any of those water bath, instead I may place a water one rack lower under the cake. I still have nightmares from the soggy cheesecake waking up sweaty every second night! ;)
I dont think you can, unless you're talking about as decoration at the end. Chocolate syrup = chocolate + sugar + milk(maybe). Bitter sweet chocolate is pure 70% cocoa chocolate. You might be able to but reduce the sugar you put in since the syrup already has sugar.
OR EASIER: just mix condensed milk, cream cheese and cocoa or melted chocolate and no baking needed, just put it in the fridge! but its not a biscuit though
