Mini Oreo cheesecakes

Mini Oreo cheesecakes are so easy to make with this no-bake cheesecake recipe made with that classic American biscuit as a base and crushed throughout. The kids can help you make these, as there's lots to keep them occupied - weighing, whisking, crushing and of course, eating the results!

Ingredients

• 2 x 154g packets Oreo cookies
• 280g full fat cream cheese
• 284ml double cream
• 75g caster sugar
• 2 tsp fresh lemon juice
• 1 drop vanilla extract

Method

• Ask your child to line a 12 hole muffin tray with paper cases.
• Count out 12 Oreo cookies to use as the base of your cheesecakes. Your little helper can have the task of placing a cookie into the base of each paper case.
• Count out 6 more Oreo cookies and place to one side, as they will be used later for decoration.
• For the creamy cheesecake topping, pour the double cream into a medium-sized mixing bowl. Whisk the cream with an electric whisk or a balloon whisk until the cream starts to thicken up. To test if it's ready, lift the whisk above the bowl; the cream that drips off should leave a trail on the rest. This is the perfect consistency!
• Add the cream cheese, lemon juice, caster sugar and drop of vanilla extract to the cream. Whisk all the ingredients together until the mixture is smooth and well combined.
• You should be left with approximately 7 Oreo cookies, which will be added to the cheesecake topping. Place the Oreos into a freezer bag or sandwich bag and seal shut, making sure that all the air is out of the bag. Your child can then crush the Oreos with a rolling pin, until they turn into crumbs.
• Tip the Oreo crumbs into the cheesecake mixture and stir to combine.
• Ask your little helper to spoon the cheesecake mixture into the paper cases, covering up the Oreo bases.
• Place the cheesecakes into the fridge for 2-3 hours to firm up.
• When ready to serve, decorate your cheesecakes by breaking the 6 remaining Oreo cookies in half and pushing a half into each cheesecake.

Sumber: http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/no_bake-cake

No-bake Raspberry chocolate cupcakes

These cupcakes are a great recipe to make with the kids as they require no baking - you simply chill a mixture of Madeira cake, raspberries, chocolate and cream cheese with a few store cupboard ingredients

Ingredients

• 100g bar white chocolate
• 300g (10oz) Madeira cake
• 1 medium egg white
• 60g (2oz) caster sugar
• 200g tub cream cheese (we used Philadelphia)
• 100g (31/2oz) raspberries

You will also need:

• 5.5cm (21/4in) cutter
• 8 muffin cases in muffin tins

Method

• Put the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water and leave until it melts. Stir and set aside to cool.
• Meanwhile, cut the Madeira cake into 8 slices, then roughly crumble each slice at a time and pack the cake crumbs into the cutter. Press it down really well to form a disc of cake. Put this in a muffin case and press into the base. Repeat with the rest of the cake slices.
• Whisk the egg white to a stable foam, then whisk in the sugar to glossy peaks. Add the cream cheese to the melted chocolate and mix well, then fold in the meringue mixture and all but 8 of the raspberries. Spoon the mixture on to the cake in the muffin cases. Smooth the tops and pop a raspberry on each one.
• Chill until firm — about 2 hours or overnight is fine.

Sumber: http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/no_bake-cake