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In the recipe, you have to get ready with four types of cheese to add in. This cheesecake is for those who does not like to eat too sweet and you will enjoy eating it. Do have a try.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 tablespoon Butter (for pan)
1/4 cup Fine breadcrumbs, toasted
1/4 cup Finely grated cheddar cheese
6 oz Thinly sliced ham
1 1/2 lb Cream cheese, room temp.
3/4 lb Sharp cheddar, grated
1 cup Cottage cheese
3/4 cup Chopped green onion
4 Eggs
3 teaspoon Jalapeno pepper
2 tablespoon Milk
1 Garlic clove, chopped

Method:

Preheat oven to 325. Butter 9″ springform pan. Mix breadcrumbs and 1/4 cup cheddar. Sprinkle mixture into pan, turning to coat. Refrigerate. Dice about half of ham; reserve remaining slices. Mix diced ham with remaining ingredients in blender or processor until smooth. Pour slightly more than half of filling into prepared pan. Top with reserved ham slices in even layer. Cover with remaining filling. Set pan on baking sheet. Bake 1 1/4 hours. Turn oven off and cool cheesecake about 1 hour with door ajar. Transfer cheesecake to rack. Remove sides of pan. Cool to room temperature before serving.

Would you like to bake this cake for your children to eat? The texture looks liked a behive. For this cake, you need 1 can condensed milk. You need caramelized sugar syrup for the color of the cake.

Ingredients:

1 can condensed milk
250 gm castor sugar
500 ml water
250 gm butter
250 gm self-raising flour
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
7 eggs

Method:

Make caramel by heating sugar in a stainless steel saucepan until golden brown. Remove sauce pan from heat and pour in water slowly. Return the pan to simmer until caramelized sugar dissolves. Leave aside to cool.

Beat butter and condensed milk until creamy. In a seperate bowl, beat eggs until fluffy and add it to the butter mixture. Add vanilla essence and mix well. Fold in the flour and mix in the caramel. Pour the mixture into a lined and greased tin. Bake in a preheated oven of 180 degrees C. until cake is done by tested with a skewer.

Would you like to make your own pizza dough? Do try this basic pizza dough recipe. You can add any pizza sauce of your choice.

Ingredients:

4 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose white flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cup warm water
2 packages dry yeast
1 1/2 cup warm water
1/4 cup olive oil
2 teaspoon light soya

Method:

Measure 1/2 cup warm water into a 2 cup container and stir in the brown sugar. Disslove the 2 packages of dried yeast in the water and set it aside for 5 minutes. It will become frothy. ( for about 2 cups worth!)

Sift 4 cups of flour into a large mixing bowl. Make a depression in the middle of the flour and pour in 3/4 of the olive oil and 1 cup warm water. Add in the yeast too.

Dust your kneading surface with flour, then mix the ingredients in the bowl with your hands. Place dough ball on the floured surface and from 8 to 10 minutes. Add flour to the kneading surface if the dough is too sticky or wet. Eventually the dough will become elastic.

Rub the insides of the clean bowl with the remaining olive oil and place the dough in it, coating the dough with olive oil by turning it in the bowl. Cover with the clean cloth and let rise in warm, draft- free place until double in size, 1 1/2 to 2 hours. An oven with the light on or a lit burner pilot will provide suitable heat for rising dough. When dough has risen, divide into two halves then roll each out on floured surface. A round shape may be cut out with table knife using 12 inches bowl or plate template.

No doubt pizza is a fast food, but it is nourishing to eat. It can be prepared at home in a fast manner. Pizza dough can be bought in supermarkets and fillings can be prepared at home whenever you want to eat.

Ingredients:

6 pizza dough
300 gm minced beef
1/4 cup minced onion
1 can tomato paste
3 tablespoon steak sauc
1 tablespoon Italian herb seasonings
2 cups sliced mozzrella cheese
grated parmesan cheese
1/4 cup sliced green onion

Method:

In a medium skillet, cook and crumble meat until no longer pink and drain. Add onion and cook until soft. Mix in tomato paste, steak sauce and Italian herb seasoning, cook until mixture simmers. Spread mixture on pizza dough. Bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes.

How To Make American Cheesecake

This cake is simple to make. You need a baking time of 20 minutes. The cake will be spongy and soft. Busy mothers can have a try. This baking method needs caramel. You have to be careful of your hands when you add water to caramel because of the steam will hurt your hands.

Ingredients:

1 cup wheat flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
4 eggs
3/4 tin condensed milk
1 tablespoon butter

Method:

Sieve flour and baking soda together. Put aside. To make caramel, use a small pot, pour sugar to boil. Keep stirring until dark brown. Quickly add water and stir till caramel dissolves. Set aside to cool.

Put the milk in the mixing bowl and add the butter. Blend till you get a smooth mixture. Add in eggs, blending each in smoothly,one at a time. Mix in the flour and add in the vanilla essence. Blend in the caramel and mix evenly. Grease a baking tin and pour in the mixture. Bake at temperture 180 degrees. C for 15 to 20 minutes.

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