Cheese Slice

My fudge brownies slice turned out not bad the other day and I thought of modifying it into something new. Well, I got the idea from the cheese slice my juniors made not long ago and so, I decided to give it a try. I was saying the other day that I never bake in my life before this and here I am, baking twice in as many weeks. I wonder why I can still spent my time to bake so much when now it is the exam period. It must have come from the exam's tension I guess.

I was not sure how would it turn out because I simply make a rough guess about the ingredients and the quantity of each of them. Fortunately for me, it was still edible. In fact, it was quite nice. Basically, the ingredients for the fudge slice remain the same, minus the raisins. As for the icing part, I just experimented with it. Here is the recipe, which I created it (the icing part) on my own. It might not suit your taste bud, so take it at your own risk.

Fudge slice

• 1 egg
• 100g butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 225g crushed plain biscuits (malt biscuits is okay as well)

1. In medium saucepan, add butter and sugar.
2. Stir until butter and sugar dissolves and bubbles.
3. Remove from heat, add vanilla and beaten egg.
4. Then beat well and stir in crushed biscuits blending thoroughly.
5. Press mixture well and while still warm, cover with icing.
6. Chill it in the fridge for about two hours.

Icing

• 5 tbsp yogurt
  
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp gelatin
  
• 80g sliced cheese

1. In a saucepan, combine yogurt and sugar.
2. Stir over low heat until dissolve and add gelatin.
3. Add the finely sliced cheese and stir until all the cheese dissolves, or until good spreading consistency for about ten minutes.

※ Add some water to the icing while stirring if the mixture is too dry. The amount of cheese can be increased if you love cheese a lot.

The icing part should be soft and white in colour but somehow, since I didn't get the right recipe from my junior, it turned out to have slight yellowish colour. When I made my corn pudding last time and wanted it to be yellow, it turned white. Now when I want my cheese slice to be white, it turned yellow. I think I will never have luck with these deserts, who are just trying to make fun of me.

My First Time Baking - Fudge Brownies

Cooking is one thing, but baking is another thing. Baking will never be the same and being able to cook does not necessarily mean that person can bake at the same time. That is so true, especially to my mum as she can cook wonderful food that it makes me missing her cooking so much when I am abroad, but when it comes to baking, well, let me just put it this way. She barely passes the test. All this while, I post up entries on my cooking but never once did I actually post up anything about baking, because basically, I never baked in my entire life. Okay lah, if helping my mum to stir the cake batter is considered, then it would be quite a number of times. Apart from that, it will be nil.

I have wanted to try her fudge brownies recipe which she posted in her blog not a long distance ago, because it looks rather simple and no baking is involved. But I have been postponing it so many times that I have yet to make it, not until a couple of nights ago. Yes, of so many time, I the crave of making the fudge brownies suddenly came out from nowhere that night, like how girls have that sudden crave to shop. The initial plan was to make it over the weekends but since I had already got all the ingredients needed, I headed to the kitchen to begin my fudge brownies adventure.

I was supposed to crush the biscuits but as always, I do not have the proper utensils for the job. So, I just placed them on the floor and crushed them with my bare hands. But of course, the biscuits were still inside their plastics. However, they didn't become as fine as I would have like it. After doing some deep thinking (kononnyer) and looking around the kitchen, I came out with an idea of smashing them with canned food. And it worked wonders.

I put so much effort in smashing the biscuits, that later even when I went back to my room, I didn't realise that there were still biscuits crumbs sticking on my face. I only saw that when I was went to the sink to wash my hands. No wonder when I was talking to my friends before that, they gave me that kind of weird look. Some more didn't tell me =.=

Anyway, my fudge brownies turned out pretty good I guess.

No bad for a first-timer, don't you think so?

Here is the recipe for the fudge brownies, which I stole it without permission from her blog. You will get about twenty pieces of those fudges with the amount below.

Fudge slice

• 1 egg
• 100g butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup sultanas (raisins)
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 225g crushed plain biscuits (malt biscuits is okay as well)

1. In medium saucepan, add butter and sugar.
2. Stir until butter and sugar dissolves and bubbles.
3. Remove from heat, add vanilla and beaten egg.
4. Then beat well and stir in crushed biscuits and sultanas blending thoroughly.
5. Press mixture well and while still warm, cover with icing.
6. Chill it in the fridge for about two hours.

Icing

• 2 tbsp water
• 2 tbsp butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 80g choc pieces

1. In a saucepan, combine brown sugar, butter and water.
2. Stir over low heat until dissolved and bring to a boil.
3. Take off the heat and add chocolate pieces stirring until dissolved and cool for five minutes or until good spreading consistency.

I decided to make some minor adjustments to the recipe, mainly because the quantity of the icing part is not really sufficient to cover the amount of fudge slice. Also, the amount of sugar can be reduced if you prefer it to be less sweet, and also because the raisins will provide the sweetness to the brownies too. Thank you for reading and if you are thinking of trying out the recipe, feel free to drop me any questions if you are not very sure of a certain part.

Haha, I am making myself sounding like an information center now wtf.