Baked Banana Cheesecake

Last week my husband bought home a bunch of banana's

 

"You have to make me a cake" he said

 

I later found out that his work was issued with a challenge

 

A bake-off

 

Using bananas

 

Wives were NOT allowed to help in said baking

 

Someone made muffins, others made cakes

 

Husband proclaimed I was now not to make a cake, because someone already had and it was "the best cake ever" and I clearly would not beat it

 

My specialty is not cakes. My cakes are hard, solid, hunks of cake

 

If you want a brick, ask me to make you a cake

 

So Husband searched for ideas and decided he wanted a cheesecake

 

I've made cheesecakes before and they have never been baked. You whip them up pour in the gelatine, put them in the fridge and voila - you have a cheesecake

 

So my challenge was to find something that Husband could make without my assistance

 

After lots of searching, I found this recipe

It involved baking 

 

I thought to myself 'uh-oh' and prayed it wouldn't turn out as a waste of food

 

On the way home from work we picked up the ingrediants. We got home and got into it

 

*insert pics of husband baking here*

 

Now unfortunately I was not allowed to take pictures during the baking process

 

I wanted to

 

I really really wanted to

 

What you don't know is my husband was using my pink/red/purple baking accessories

 

I was banned from taking pictures

 

It was interesting watching Husband's method though

 

The first step was to crush the biscuits "how am I supposed to do THAT??" - I reminded him about the smoothie maker

 

Add butter "but its hard" - I reminded him to check the list of ingrediants

 

Then the instructions said 'place in a greased and lined 22cm springform tin' - by this stage I was quietly laughing to myself as Husband proclaimed that baking instructions need to be written in proper English and this instruction clearly was not

 

I pointed him in the direction of the springform tin and told him that picking up the hunk of butter to grease the tin (rather than using the brush) means he now needs to wash his hands again
He found the measuring cups and spoons and after showing him how the mixer works, he managed quite well making the filling

 

The only thing I did was help check if it was ready once baked

 

This morning the topping went on

 

He used cream with and grated white chocolate on top

 

Want to see it?

 

 

I'm told it was a yummy morning tea!

 

 

 

Scones!!!

I've never been able to make scones

Never

Ever

I think thats my one kryptonite 

Oh how I loathe making scones

Not because of the scones, but how my scones turn out

Imagine pancakes and you get the general idea....

If scones were on those FAIL email forwards, mine would feature 

So my monthly gardening magazine turned up

( yes there is a point to this )

and what do you know, they taunt me with their

 'Never-Fail Scones' recipe

Hahaha I laughed at the page, never fail? Well I'll show you!!!

So there I was, thinking I was wasting ingrediants but putting them into the bowl anyway

4C Self-Raising Flour

300ml Cream

1 Can of Lemonade

I put them all in together, stirred it up, put it on the bench, rolled it out, used the cookie cutter thingie and put them in the oven and set the timer for 12 minutes ( on 200 degrees celsius )

Oh the shock

( Oh the horror?? )

They laughed in my face!

Look Becky, we're rising

Nah nah nah nah nah!!!!!

I don't think I've ever been so happy to be proven wrong!

I can now proudly say 'yes, I'll make scones for lunch'

why???

BECAUSE I CAN!!!!

And the proof, is in the picture

and here's a pic of the back of the scones

Sponge Topping

This week, I'm on holiday and I'm loving it

Doing nothing, nothing and nothing

Bliss

It was around 9.30pm last night and Mr JJ turns to me and says 

" whats for dinner ? "

To which my response was 

" well I'm on holiday, what do you want to make yourself ? " 

:-p

I went off to the kitchen to think what was the most basic thing I know how to make and is delicious so much so, that husband won't care what it is

I decided to make Sponge Topping on fruit, so naughty...

So I whipped up a batch

Out came the pears I'd preserved 

( I even have a whole preserving cupboard ! )

then put I the pears into little bowl things, 

I know they have a name but do you think I can recall what it is ??

sponge topping on top of pears

 leave in oven for half an hour and hey presto

I know you want the recipe so here it is

50g Butter

1 d Golden Syrup or Honey

¼ C Sugar

1 Egg

½ t Vanilla Essence

½ C Flour

1 t Baking Powder

2-3 T Milk

-Set oven to 180 °C

-Melt Butter and Golden Syrup

-Add Sugar, Egg & Vanilla Essence – beat to combine

-Stir (do not beat) in the Flour, Baking Powder & Milk

-Bake for 20-30 minutes until the center springs back or the top is golden brown

Rocky Road

On Sunday night I made Rocky Road for the first time

Yum Yum!

I love it, its one of my favourites

I thought it would be difficult but after I read the instructions, I laughed! Is this simple or what??

I don't know why I didn't make this sooner

350g Chocolate

250g Marshmellows

1 C Peanuts

½ C Glacé Cherries (I just used one whole box since there was no point saving the rest)

Cut the Marshmellows in half (hint: wet the scissors first)

Cut the Peanuts to desired size

Cut Cherries in half

Mix together

Melt Chocolate

Add Chocolate to everything else

Put into a slice tin and pop in the fridge to set

Easy Peasy!

Next time, I’d use more chocolate to hold it together…