Post a Comment On: Wake Up and Smell the Cake

So it was major fatty food alert for the birthday/Good Friday weekend.Yes I know! Backdated post!

It started off with Cream Cheese Brownies, for birthday boy's birthday cake! :)

I searched for a fool-proof recipe and I found one at Betty Crocker's website using their instant brownie mix, and made a few adjustments.

Filling
8 oz cream cheese, softened (recipe only used 4oz but I thought that's too little!)
1 egg
3 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Brownies
1 box (1 lb 2.4 oz) Betty Crocker® Original Supreme Premium brownie mix
Water, vegetable oil and egg called for on brownie mix box
Sprinkle-happy semisweet chocolate chipsand white chocolate chips :)
Heat oven to 170ºC. In small bowl, beat filling ingredients until smooth. Set aside. Make brownie batter as directed on box. Spread 3/4 of brownie batter in a 9 by 9 inch pan. Spoon filling by tablespoonfuls evenly onto brownie batter. Spoon remaining brownie batter over filling. Cut through mixture with knife several times for marbled design. Sprinkle with chocolate chips. Bake 42 minutes or until toothpick inserted in brownie 1 inch from side of pan comes out almost clean. Cool completely, about 1 1/2 hours. Store covered in refrigerator. [Image]
Cream cheese brownies for birthday boy! Yumyum! :)

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Admittedly, it tastes better after it's been refrigerated. And I still dunoe how the original recipe uses only 4oz cheese! I used double and I feel like there should be more!

Part two of fatty food alert: special breakfast for birthday boy, pancakes! Which sadly, didn't turn out well :( Here's the sad, sad foto of my first pancake attempt. Looks lame doesn't it!

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I ended up eating it myself while waiting to cook the rest, the taste is nice but I didnt get the fluffy and brown texture!

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The batter. At first I mixed using the wooden ladle, but it had flour bubbles so I blendered the whole batter instead. Easy peasy muahahahaha.

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Second attempt and STILL ugly!! :(

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Fourth attempt and finally it looks somewhat like a pancake. But not as fluffy though!! :( And I need a smaller pan ahahhaha.

Anyway! Here's the recipe!

From My Kitchen Snippets:
220 gram flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp sugar
¼ tsp salt
2 eggs
300ml milk
1 tbsp melted butter
1/2 tsp vanilla powder

Part three of fatty food alert was baking chocolate chip cheesecake. Which will be done on a separate post cos I don't have the recipes and fotos with me right now except this one:

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Looks delicious doesn't it!! Tastes great too! Made it with my sister on Saturday, because I have 2 packs of cream cheese to finish off before it expires in two days' time. Haha. This is the second time we did this particular recipe, the first time was for Other Half's first birthday celebration together three years ago :) That was one mad dash! And one thing we improved, we didn't include the lemon zest cos Other Half doesn't like the lemony flavour. The cheesecake turned out lovely! And since we have too much fatty food around, I spread the fats to both my family and his. Muahahahaha.

Part four of fatty food alert is jemput-jemput pisang for Sunday morning breakfast! Other Half loves this and even requested for it few days earlier, and so it became part of fatty food weekend! Made with love and served in bed :) Thank you Shez for the fondue set of which I used the heart shaped bowl for this. Haha!

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Err no recipe for this cos I did it by estimation haha. Basically flour and mashed bananas and some water. That's all! :)