It’s Andy’s 40th birthday today! Happy Birthday!!!
I made a London Cheesecake from Nigella Lawson’s “How to be a Domestic Goddess”, which typical Nigella style uses a lot of scrumptous ingredients but is heavenly yummie! 2.5 tubs of cream cheese (and I surely didn’t use the low fat version) 1/2 tub of sour cream, 3 eggs, 3 egg yokes and 8oz of graham crackers with 6tbsp of butter. L helped me make it being busy crushing the crackers and obviously asking lots of questions throughout the process.
It’s actually the first time I made a recipe from this book. I remember vividly when I received this book for christmas a couple of years back. I felt mildly insulted because I considered myself a tough business woman and surely not someone who would don an apron and slave in the kitchen for hours to dish up domestic goddess cakes.
Even though this cake took a while to make (mainly through toddler interruptions) it was pretty forward. The most interesting thing for me was to bake it in a water bath.
I also had to do some fiddling with the pan as I didn’t have a spring form. I buttered the baking pan, cut a circle the size of the bottom of the pan and three additional long strips out of freezer paper and laid it out (waxed side down) so I’d be able to pull the cake out by grabbing the paper strips.
The pan is wrapped in aluminum foil before putting into a deep baking tray. Boiling water is then poured in the baking pan and the whole cake goes in the oven for 50 minutes.
Andy does not have a sweet tooth but he literally inhaled his slice. And L. enjoyed it too!
