of cheesecakes and irrepeatable coffee buttercream frosting

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Daddy's birthday was on the 4th, so since he's back and there's been time i baked cheesecake and frosted it architecturally (well, frosting looks quite architectural, in my opinion) so tadah! recipe will follow, but the buttercream frosting is ir-repeatable because it's a combination of failed macarons (i will never try macarons again, because i've just discovered it's 78% sugar, honestly @@ or maybe it's cos i failed haha) (and i didn't have any almond meal! how to make macarons without almond meal!! macarons are 56% almond meal) and butter


cheesecake


frosted


quite architectural, in my opinion

coffee cheesecake
Cake base
23cm round chocolate spongecake (i forgot about the cocoa powder, mixed it with coffee powder, so a got a weird light grey sponge, not a dark brown chocolate sponge, but anyway)

Filling
(A) 250g cream cheese, 35g sugar (i put one tablespoon)
(B) 30g flour
(C) 2 egg yolks
(D) 1T instant coffee powder, 1T water, 100g whipping cream
(E) 2 egg whites, 50g sugar (i used a quarter cup. anyhow lah)

steps:
1_cream (A) till light. add (B) till well blended.
2_add (C) till smooth and light
3_make thick coffee with coffee powder and water. mix with whipping cream
4_mix cream with mixture earlier (A)+(B)+(C)
5_in (E) beat egg whites till foamy, add sugar and whip till stiff (i forgot if you shouldn't overbeat cheesecake eggwhites or you should, so i did it somewhere in the middle, and there was one tiny crack, so i guess you shouldn't). fold egg whites into cheesecake mixture from earlier.
6_at this point, you can add stuff like nuts, chocolate chips, m&ms etc. I add chopped pecans, hazelnuts and chocolate chips...
7_pour into cake tin with your sponge at the bottom
8_bake in water bath at 160C for one hour

irrepeatable coffee buttercream
ingredients
macaron batter sans almond meal, sugar halved, beaten wrongly
coffee
1.5 sticks of butter

beat all together

just a mention: i halved the sugar in the cheesecake (probably even more than halved) so it was okay to frost the cake. If you add the proper amount of sugar, then it is not a good idea to frost it, you could die of diabetes.

i just remembered i added nuts and chocolate chips to the mix when i cut the cake


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