Lemon Cheesecake
After making the lemon meringue tart, I have lot of leftover lemon curl. Lemon curl is like lemon butter, you can put it on toast, use it to make muffins, or.... you can use it to make cheesecake!
This is a refrigerated cheesecake, well, what I mean is, it is not bake. I am not a big cheesecake eater. I found that baked cheesecakes are heavier. This cold cheesecake is made with gelatine. The trick is to stir in slowly so that it does not form lumps in the cream cheese mixture.
For the recipe I used, instead of adding lemon juice and lemon rind. I added my lemon curl. To top it off I put a layer of lemon curl as well. It was quite rich in flavour. Not so sweet, it is quite heavy because of the cream cheese, but I like it because it is a bit lighter than the baked cheesecake.
*PS* I used Oreo biscuit as the base. Not too bad, but I think the chocolate flavour of the Oreo is not the best combination with the lemon. I probably will use plain biscuit next time, may be used the Oreo base with the strawberry cheesecake! Yummy :D
Lemon Meringue Tart
This year I was very spoilt for my birthday (and Christmas). My family organised a party for me, it was awesome. I celebrated with some of my closed friends and family members. I was spoilt with a lots of gifts as well. One of the gifts is a food processor which I have wanted for ages. For Christmas I received a whisk and blow torch - I don't know how many gadget I can have in my kitchen!!
The first thing I made with the food processor is this lemon meringue tart. I have been wanting to make the meringue tart for a while. With the heat in Queensland and I don't have the luxury to have an air-conditoner in the kitchen, which makes it really hard to make the pasty. With the food processor, within seconds, my pastry is ready!
The lemon curl is easy - with my new metal whisk, a few whisk and twist - viola!!! The fresh smell of lemon is incredible. The meringue part is easy as well, all I can say is, it is so glossy :)
The blow torch is an amazing tool. I love it! Not just making this meringue tart, but I can make my favourite grilled salmon at home!
