A good friend of mine has a birthday on Sunday and to celebrate we're all supposed to be making cupcakes tomorrow and then going to Uber (a club party). Now I don't know that I'll be going to Uber but the cupcake making is definitely something I can do. I'm not sure what kind our two other friends are going to be making but mine will be Strawberry Cheesecake.
I usually use the JELL-O No Bake Cheesecake mix because it is idiotically simple. It really is idiot proof. The pictures will show you. It comes with three packages inside and they're labelled 1, 2 and 3 just so you don't mix up the order you're to use them in. After having some errands to run tonight I finally get home and I'm ready to bake or not bake as the case is. What do you know, the measuring cup and 1tbsp measuring spoon is dirty in the sink thanks to my brother who never sees the need to wash up his cooking (and by cooking I mean box mac and cheese) utensils when he's going to leave the house. It's not like I'll need to use the things.
So I begin this adventure with my ingredients, my JELL-O No Bake Cheesecake mix, 1-1.5cups "cold" milk, 5-tbsp melted butter, 2-tbsp sugar and my utensils, my bowls, my spatula, measuring cup and spoon (which I have just washed), my foil muffin pans layered with my very cute "cupcake" baking cups. When I saw them today I just had to buy them, they were too cute not to have and it's 75 in a pack so they will definitely last a while. And of course a glass of red wine because it's so much more fun to cook with wine.
While doing step one which is mixing the crust I think that I must confess that the crust is my absolute favourite part of the cheesecake. Without a doubt, it is just so delicious. On pretty much all cheesecakes. I have yet to taste a crust that I've disliked. To do the crust all you do is mix the "Step 1 Crust Mix" with the sugar and melted butter until properly mixed and then you use the crust to cover the bottom of the backing cups.
The "Step 2 Filling Mix" is now added to the bowl of "cold" milk and mixed. The instructions say to use a mixer to do the mixing but since I don't have one of those I'm relying on some good old (wo)man power, elbow-grease and my trusty whisks. I have a slight obsession with whisks. Right now I only have two but every time I see one I have to stop myself from buying it. I'm using my small one now to whisk the mix together. The recipe calls for 1-1.5 cups of milk and I used a little over the 1 cup mark because the last time I made it the filling was a little too goopy for my liking. The box also says that the filling will be thick, I have yet to see that so I'm going to just keep on whisking until hopefully it thickens.
Wow, they should have just told you to leave it alone for a little while. I left it to type up the last paragraph and I go back to it and it's like cement. Well not quite obviously but it was pretty thick. That definitely did not happen the last time and I'm pretty sure I used a mixer because it was when I was at home home*.
I spooned the filling on top of my yummy crust and then use the spatula to smooth out the top. The box then advises that I refrigerate them for an hour before putting the strawberry topping on. I decided that I was just going to leave them in the fridge overnight and decorate them tomorrow. Either on my own or with my other friends in the evening I guess. I'm not exactly sure what the plan is but I'll find out eventually.
The pictures I took I'll post them tomorrow (or later) when I've done the decorating with filling part. That way there will be a photo of the finished product as well.
If we all do get together tomorrow evening then I'll take pictures and blog about that as well. I'll probably have my laptop on me so I can do a semi live blogging like I did tonight. Which means that even thought everything is being posted at once quite a bit later than when I was doing the cooking/baking/whatever, I typed up these paragraphs as I was doing the things that I wrote about. I do apologise though because I know how boring/tedious it can be to be reading only text, especially for a food/cooking blog. I personally think it should be against the law to print recipes without photos. One that note, I'll see you tomorrow (or later).
*Home Home- For those of you who don't know, I'm 21yo and live with my younger brother in a teeny tiny flat. That is referred to as "home" and that's where I'm making this now. "Home Home" refers to the house in the country where I grew up (from age 9-18) and my parents and older brother live. I tend to do my big cooking experiments there because if something goes wrong my Mummy can usually help me out.
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