Sunday, June 20, 2010

Heavenly Cake - Coconut Cheeshecake

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Delicious Coconut Cheesecake!



Mis en place:



Coconut and vanilla wafers with clarified butter. Before I attempted this cake I only knew about the Israeli style vanilla wafers. My wife was able to clear things up.



Cream Cheese and sugar.


Spin the cream o' coconut in the food processor. Here I made the mistake of putting the whole 15 ounce can in instead of the recommended 8 oz. Thus, I got to make some cupcakes too. :)



Mix in sour-cream and cream of coconut.


Prepared mini cheesecake pans.



Toast two at a time in the water bath.



Mmm.


Baby cakes. I ran out of the cookie crust bottom mixture so I put straight crumbled vanilla wafers. It actually gave a nice extra crunch on the bottom!



The extra cream of coconut did not seem to hurt the flavor too much. It may have had a slightly more languid flavor than it was supposed too. These were easy to make and really delicious. One of the fellows who I shared this with at work stated that it was the best cheesecake he had ever had and said: "You should have a blog!"



9 comments:

  1. I love that you make it in small pans, and those cheesecake cupcake looks so cute. The 1st picture looks awesome! I should start taking picture up close as well.

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  2. OMG.. I never thought of doing mini cheesecakes! Love your idea of doing them like that... I'm putting a note on my book for the next time!

    Tom LOOOOVEEE the cheesecake (not as much as the lemon ones) but this one is way high up there.

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  3. I love your mini cheesecake!!! Such a great idea!! Looks delicious too..even though i'm not a coconut in cakes fan..lol!

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  4. Did you suggest you read yours? Love all the ingenious adaptations you made - and the darling little blue cupcake liners. That assembly makes a lovely presentation and I know they were delicious!

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  5. Ha! You really should get a blog! You would be awesome.

    Great looking cheesecakes. Thanks for posting the photo of the vanilla wafers. I had no idea what they were - I definitely thought they were like your amazon link. I didn't make this cheesecake this week, though now I see everyone's posts I think I may have missed out. Another one to add to the free bake week list.

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  6. So you live a secret double life as a blogger, eh?!!! I'm glad you made the small cupcakes because I planned on using ramekins. It's the easiest way for me to send goodies off to my daughter's office and remove too much temptation.

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    Thanks everyone for your nice comments. After that fellows suggestion I'm considering starting a baking blog. :)

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  8. great looking cakes, yummmm....mendy I have a doubt, what is the mccormik pack on top of the butter in your mis en place picture?

    zerin
    www.momster.me

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    Thanks for commenting Zerin. Indeed, the mccormik pack is imitation coconut extract. I was unable to find the real thing!

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