Baking: fudge fail! Almost.

Well I can honestly say that I have never messed up on such an amazingly simple recipe in my life. Let me have a little exposition here and give you a bit of a back story on this escapade. Last week exactly I thought to myself, hey I'm craving some chocolate, so I gave the bf some options for what I could make. The choices, mocha cupcakes or some simple chocolate fudge, I guess you can tell from the title what he picked. 

Now can I just say the epic ness of this almost fail is not entirely my fault, the recipe called for a can of evaporated milk or 5 oz. now it called for the store brand and I assumed that the store brand would only be sold in that size. But that would not be economical I suppose. So anyway this is what the epic fail looked like before the fix. 

Way too much evaporated milk. Anyway my mother gave me a quick semi fix, I measured out 2/3 of a cup of this mix 

And added a bit more sugar to compensate, and it turned out pretty good. It took a bit longer than normal to set up, I even had it in the fridge for a couple hours. 

 Over all it was delicious and was gone by the end of the week. 

Holiday Baking: Cheesecake Finally!!

So this past Saturday I finally had time to start my holiday baking (thank you work for not calling me in on another day off), and I started with a bang… Cheesecake. This is one of my bf’s favorite desserts and I had been waiting and waiting since Tuesday to make it. For you see I had bought the ingredients for this cheesecake recipe the weekend prior, thinking I would be baking on Tuesday afternoon.

 But before I really get started on the story of the cheesecake escapade I should probably give you the recipe I used. I used the Philadelphia cream cheese Easy 3-step cheesecake recipe, It can be found here. I used this recipe because it is simple and quite easy. All you need for this recipe is; 2pks of creamcheese I got mine as a two pack at walmart, eggs, sugar, a graham cracker crust, and vanilla extract;

pretty simple right? We have used this simple cheesecake recipe in my family for years (I think since before we lived on Guam back in 1992) I know a long time right. It always reminds me of my mother. Anyway back to the recipe. I just followed it completely, something I always do the first time I make something for myself, and it turned out pretty well considering that I accidentally left it in the oven longer than I really should have. And it did end up cracking a little bit around the edges. But I think it turned out fantastic.

I should also add that this is the first time that I have baked anything with a custard base in the gas oven and with that in mind the fact that it only cracked this tiny amount. 

I think that is super amazing. I do know what I will be bringing with me to the Christmas dinner we were invited to as well, this cheesecake, the apple-butter banana bread (I might post about this later, my mom just sent me the recipe) or maybe just some of my special homemade frosted ginger cookies. Or I might just go the safe route and pick up some amaretto cake (his mom is allergic to cinnamon) and while it is a negligible amount in both the bread and the cookies, it is better to be safe than sorry right?

Well I think that is all that I really have to say within this post. I know that it is not the most elaborate cheesecake recipe and it is not the most difficult either, but it is one of my personal favorites. While I do hope that I can make a more elaborate one in the future, I just do not feel comfortable enough with my oven to try (has a slight fear of disaster and failure) anyway I hope that you all enjoyed this post and I will be posting more with my baking escapades in the very near future. Should my day job allow me some more time off, if not then I know after Christmas I will be able to bake and write more for you.

As always luv ya all!