Chocolate Cheesecake Slice (GF, TMX)

Happy birthday MUM!!

made this today for mum's birthday :) original recipe here

unfortunately even though the skewer came out clean and the slice looked clean, only the outside pieces were cooked and the middle 6-8 pieces were definitely not. in fact when i removed all the pieces around them to put in a container to take to mum's the top half slid off the bottom half of some of the pieces lol the picture above shows the slice on the rack upside down - it's so sloppy in the middle i can't even turn it over!!!

at least what i gave mum was cooked fine :)

so, i doubled the recipe and put it in a quite large tray, but it still came out quite thick, probably 4cm thick. I think next time i would double the cream cheese part (as it was quite thin) and cook 150% of the chocolate part. I'll put the quantities in the recipe for 100%, 150% and 200% ;D

this slice was perfect for gluten free baking, you'd never know it was!

MARBLED CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE SLICE
185g (280g, 370g) butter, cubed
25g (40g, 50g) cocoa
220g (330g, 440g) sugar
2 (3, 4) eggs
160g (240g, 320g) plain gluten free flour
250g (380g, 500g) cream cheese, softened
75g (110g, 150g) sugar, extra
5g (10g, 15g) vanilla
1 (1, 2) egg, extra

Melt butter with cocoa, 90'c, speed 2 for 3 or so minutes

add sugar and turn onto speed 3, add eggs through lid one by one

Add flour, and mix for 10 seconds on speed 4-5. scrape down sides of bowl and mix for another 10 seconds speed 4-5

Pour mixture into lined lamington tin.

Clean bowl with water (20 seconds speed 8) and empty out.

Add cream cheese, vanilla and extra sugar and extra egg. Mix speed 3 til the cream cheese is no longer a solid lump and then turn up to speed 4 and mix for around 20-30 secs

Pour over chocolate mixture, swirl through with knife for marbled effect.

Bake in 180C oven 40 (or so) mins, cool in tin, cut when cold

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Cherry Slice

Another of mum's old recipes...

1/2 packet Morning Coffee Biscuits
1 tin condensed milk
1/2 lb coconut
pink / red food colouring
4oz copha
3oz red glace cherries
4oz cooking chocolate

place biscuits to line a lamington type tin
melt 3oz of copha and add to this chopped cherries, condensed milk, coconut & colouring. spread over biscuits
melt other 1oz copha with chocolate, pour and spread
freezes well, in summertime keep in fridge or freezer

Gluten Free Review - Melinda's Choc Walnut Slice

Woolworths had these packet mixes on sale - buy 2 and save $xxx. so i let rora pick 3 and i picked one. this is the only one I've made so far and I thought I would review it.

It was very easy to make, just mixing a little oil and water into the first 2 packets, then baking for 15 minutes (my oven started to burn it just after 10 minutes). then let it cool slightly, mix up the icing and spread on top. i found the icing very hard to spread - it didn't want to stick to the slice (it certainly didn't look anything like the icing on the front of the box!).

everyone enjoyed it, even with the walnuts which were chopped quite finely, and it was virtually demolished that night! (only 2 small pieces were left). the slice was fairly crumbly.

the slice is also dairy free and egg free as well as gluten free. the list of ingredients is not too bad, other than one preservative.

to be honest if i added chopped walnuts to this chocolate fudge slice, which is barely any more involved to make, and then made an icing for the top (which i never bother with lol) it would be nearly identical for much less cost and barely any more effort. but if i was feeling particularly lazy i would buy this again :D heheheh

Nutty Lemon Slice

today is my first unemployed day ;) of course i am cleaning *sigh* anyway, i am cleaning the junk pile that is my computer desk and will be posting any recipes i find on it so i can then throw them away!

this one is from the Coeliac Society of NSW

Nutty Lemon Slice

1 cup GF self raising flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup coconut
90g melted butter
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts (or macadamias i think!)

1. combine all ingredients together and press into a shallow 26x 16cm microwave safe casserole dish lined with baking paper
2. cook on high for 3 minutes
3. remove from microwave oven, mark with a knife into 18 slices, then before it is completely cool cut through and carefully remove from dish
4. ice with lemon icing by mixing 1 cup pure icing sugar with enough lemon juice to make a spreadable consistency
   

Sweet Spiced Oaty Slice

this is ryan's favourite slice, which i haven't made for a while. i just went to find the recipe to discover it nowhere on the blog, nowhere on paper and nowhere on the original website (taste grrrr). luckily googling found a copy of it - at least i'm pretty sure this is exactly it!

i will now be copying all recipes which are keepers to this blog, that's happened once too often...


SWEET SPICED OATY SLICE
Makes 16 pieces

1 cup plain flour
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup caster sugar
2/3 cup coconut
125g [ 4 1/2 oz ] butter, chopped
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons boiling water
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup pure icing sugar [ Confectioners sugar ]

Preheat oven to 180C.....Grease and line base and sides of a 3cm [1 1/4 inch ]
deep 16.5cm x26cm [ 6 1/2 x 10 1/4 inch ] slab pan, allowing a 2cm [ 3/4 inch
]
overhang at both long ends.

Sift flour, nutmeg ,ginger, and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon into bowl.
Stir in oats, caster sugar and coconut. Combine butter and honey
in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Heat for 3 minutes or until butter
is melted. Remove from heat.
Combine water and soda in a small bowl. Stir into hot butter mixture.
Mix well. Press into slab pan. Bake for 15- 18 minutes or until a
skewer inserted into centre comes out clean.
Combine icing sugar [ Confectioners sugar ] and remaining cinnamon.
Sift over warm slice. Allow to cool completely.
Cut into squares and serve.

2 GF recipes from Skye...

thanks so much for thinking of us skye, these sound delish!

G.F peppermint slice
*125gm soft butter
*105gm gf icing sugar
*1 egg
*half tsp each peppermint and vanilla extract
*1cup g.f rice flour
*1cup g.f cornflour
*35g cocoa

Preheat oven to 180`c,cream butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy,add
egg,and essence,beat well
Sift flours and cocoa,fold in dry ingredients until mixture is combined.roll into balls and bake for 10mins



Sweet maple treats gluten, nut and egg free
*125g soft butter
*1tsp vanilla extract
*1/3 cup maple syrup
*270g g.f rice flour
*70g g.f cornflour

Preheat oven to 180`c,cream butter,vanilla and maple syrup until light and fluffy,sift flours,fold in dry ingredients until just combined. Roll into balls and cook for 10mins or golden brown

Links - Sweets (cakes, slices, pancakes etc) #3

first lot of links
second lot of links

apple pancakes

big batch banana trail mix bread

buttermilk sweet potato pie

chocolate almond bars

chocolate cheesecake brownies

chocolate cream pie (aka chocolate bavarian pie)

pumpkin pie with pecan crumble topping

sweetened condensed milk cake

buttermilk lemon bars

lemon cupcakes filled with lemon curd

lemon torte

sweet potato muffins

Mandarin cranberry bread

apple fig & walnut bread

chewy chunky blondies

lime yoghurt cake

snickerdoodle blondies

ginger cherry chocolate chip bars

Date Slice

mum just made this and it's DELISH and perfect for the cake stall...

Date Slice
90g butter, at room temp
4 weet-bix, crushed
1 cup chopped dates
1 cup caster sugar
1 tsp bicarb (baking) soda
1 cup boiling water
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 cup SR flour
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
icing sugar, for dusting

1. grease 18x228cm slice pan, line base and sides with baking paper
2. cut butter into small cubes. place in large bowl with weet-bix, dates, sugar, bicarb and water. mix until thoroughly combined, cool
3. stir in egg, flour and walnuts. mix well. pour into pan, smooth top with a knife
4. cook in a mod oven (180'c) for about 30 mins or until cooked when tested. cool in pan
5. lift out of pan, cut into rectangles. serve dusted with sifted icing sugar

from the New Idea

Links - Sweets (cakes, slices, pancakes etc) #2

ran out of room in the last list of 'want to makes' so here's part 2 :) part one can be found here

blueberry & yoghurt crumble cake

Chocolate pecan cheesecake bars

double lemon bars

easy apple pie

healthy pumpkin bread

light cranberry oatmeal bars

majestic and moist honey cake

maple huckleberry coffee cake

moist gingerbread cake from the crone

orange cranberry walnut loaf

parkin

peanut butter crispy bars

peanut butter oatmeal bars

pumpkin cake roll

pumpkin pecan scones

raspberry spice cake

sour cream coffee cake with chocolate and nuts

sour cream coffee cake

Links - Sweets (cakes, slices, pancakes etc)

I've discovered that there just aren't enough labels i can use to save a month's worth of recipes! and without the labels i can't find a recipe i'm looking for... so what i'll do is start a few posts with specific categories so that they will hopefully need less labels ;)

NEW Almond poppy seed bread

NEW Apple upside-down biscuit cake

banana bread

NEW banana bread, really good low fat

blueberry buttermilk pancakes

thanks susana for this one, it's divine and soooo much better than the dry one i made today :(
blueberry crumble slice
and another version blueberry crumb bars
and yet another version! blueberry crisp bars

NEW buttermilk blueberry muffins - oh no, i forgot to link this one! i can't find the exact recipe but here are some to pick from

NEW Cinnamon Apple Cake

crock pot chocolate mousse

creamy lemon blueberry bars

NEW damp lemon & almond cake

NEW elmo cupcakes (decorating idea)

german pancakes

ginger lime cupcakes

golden oat muffins

layered cream cheese brownies

NEW lemon marscarpone blondies

lemon meringue pie

orange almond cupcakes

NEW peanut butter swirled brownies

small coconut layer cake

Snickerdoodles

NEW Upside-down raspberry-plum cake

recipe conversion

my passionfruit slice recipe converted for the Thermomix, find it here :)

Spicy Bars

an old family favourite (my family that is)

4 ozs butter (125g)

1/2 cup golden syrup

1 egg

1/2 tspn salt

1 tspn cinnamon

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup water

2 cups SR flour

1 tspn instant coffee powder

1/2 tspn ground ginger

Place butter sugar and syrup in saucepan Stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved Cool - add beaten egg and water Sift dry ingredients into bowl Gradually add liquid, mixing well Pour into greased lamington tin Bake in moderate oven for 25 minutes Cool slightly, ice with lemon icing Cut into squares

Passionfruit Slice

this is a favourite for 'take a plates' as it's so quick and easy. it's very 'more-ish' though (ie you want to eat more and more lol) so i only ever make it to share. i have a playdate / morning tea tomorrow and need afternoon tea for my undercoverwear party on saturday so i'm going to whip this up now :)

i got this recipe off eb, but the topping is almost identical to what my great aunt (who was a fantastic baker and cook) used to make to top her homemade sponge cakes - YUM!

Passionfruit Slice

Base:
1 cup self-raising flour
1/2 cup castor sugar
pinch salt
1 cup coconut
125g (4 oz) butter, melted

Topping:
1 400g tin condensed milk ( or skim sweetened condensed milk - tastes the same, but fewer calories!)
Juice of 2 small lemons
Pulp of 2 passionfruit

Method:
Base ~ Combine all ingredients. Line slice tray with greaseproof paper, and spread mixture in evenly. Bake in moderate oven 15 minutes. Cool.
Topping ~ Mix together and pour over cooked base. Cook a further 8 to 10 minutes

Favourite slices

Some favourite slice recipes... mmmm yum!

MARBLED CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE SLICE
185g butter
1/4 cup cocoa
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup plain flour
250g cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup sugar, extra
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg, extra

Melt butter with cocoa. Remove from heat, add sugar, whisk in eggs. Stir in sifted flour, beat until smooth. Pour mixture into lined lamington tin (16 x 26cm). Beat cheese, vanilla and extra sugar together, stir in extra egg. Pour over chocolate mixture, swirl through with knife for marbled effect. Bake in 180C oven 40 mins, cool in tin, cut when cold (bet you can't wait that long though!). I don't swirl too much, just till I get a few choc stripes through the cheesecake mixture. There should be 2 distinct layers: choc cake on the bottom and cheesecake on the top. If you swirl too much, the two mixtures will blend together and you'll lose the desired effect.

**this slice is sooooo yummy! i have only made it once or twice as i'm sure it's not on the healthy list LOL


Chocolate Fudge Slice
4 oz butter (120g or 1/2 cup)
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
2 Tab Cocoa
1 cup SR flour
1/2 cup coconut
vanilla

Melt butter, add sugar and egg, add vanilla and cocoa, then flour and coconut. Spread into greased, shallow tin, cook in moderate oven 25 min. Ice with Chocolate icing while hot (I just mix icing sugar, cocoa to the right "colour", a dash of vanilla, a couple of Tab of melted butter, and milk to consistency for the icing).

** this one is so quick and simple to make and everyone loves it


Passionfruit slice

makes 16

1 cup SR flour
1 cup desicated coconut
1/2 cup caster sugar
125gm melted butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence

topping
395g can sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
2 passionfruit pulp ( I just use the tin pulp, about half the can)

pre heat oven at 180c
grease 3cm deep 20x30cm lamington tray
combine the flour, coconut, sugar, van ess. & butter in a bowl. Mix well and press inot tin.
Bake for 15 mins or until golden.

Make topping
reduce oven temp. to 140c mix topping ingredients together. Pour over base and bake for a further 10 minutes, or until golden around edges.

Allow to cool completely in pan before cutting into squares.

** one of my faves, i only make this one to take to morning teas as it's too rich to keep here where i would eat it all! LOL

all of these recipes from here