Sunday, 4 September 2011

Mini Cheesecakes♡

Doodleedoo~
Woken up early Sunday morning :) this calls for some blogging and baking~

感謝神。感謝你為我釘十架 感謝你賜給我的恩典
請你聼聼我禱告 讓我天天為你活。

I am always at awe with God. 創造宇宙萬物的神竟然會為我死 為我受痛苦. This is crazy. Crazy love. Trials after trials have come and are yet to be overcome. Miracles have happened, I've witnessed. 如果我細心看 就會看見, 感受到.

I praise God for last night, for blessing me with many brothers and sisters, for being able to know what is happening in Your city, for bringing us all together for one purpose.
Last night, Stream of Praise (www.sop.org) held an event at TCCC and I was able to see and do worship in a dialect not my mother tongue, yet that familiarity of love, of One, still came through. I'm thankful for the ability God has blessed me with, to understand various beautiful languages created, so that I am able to worship with many brothers and sisters in the language of their comfort. 我聼見了 聽見你昨天想告訴我的事情.


Once again I've felt overwhelmed by the yearn for God by His people. And once again this reminds me that we have to be thirsty, thirsty for His living water, to be filled, to share and spread. It's wonders what faith can do and I believe it will do wonders, greater than imaginable.
Seeds are sown, we just have to let God do His miracles and let it blossom.

雖然今天天氣不太好 但讓我在早晨來對你説 主耶穌今天我依然會當陽光去為你活 :)

♬ 禱告

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For spreading His love, here's something small enough to make LOTS and spread many smiles :)

Ingredients:
  • 24 vanilla wafer cookies (I used graham cookies - 1 cup [or] oreo cookies work as well)
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 3 (8 ounce) packaged cream cheese, softened
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg (optional)
  • 1 (12 ounce) can cherry pie filling
Directions:
  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).

  2. Line 24 muffin cups with paper or foil baking liners.

  3. Crush graham crackers into very small bits. Mix in butter. Line muffin cups.

  4. In large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the nutmeg and vanilla.

  5. Pour mixture evenly into prepared muffin cups, filling each 2/3 full. Bake for 20 minutes or until set. Cool completely, then top with cherry pie filling. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Since the cheesecake portion is the original cheesecake recipe, one can be creative and make various types. I divided the batter into, and did something different with each one:
  • Green tea: Mix in about 3 tablespoons of green tea powder. The amount is really up to one's own preference - if you want a stronger taste, add more, a more subtle taste, add less. :) Mix well into the batter.
  • Raspberry White Chocolate: Mix in 1/3 cup melted white chocolate into batter. Swirl 1/4 cup raspberry coulis into batter. Once baked, top with warm raspberry coulis/jam with white chocolate drizzle.
  • Mini Kisses: Mix in 1/3 cup chocolate chips into batter. Once baked, top with chocolate ganache.
They're so much fun to decorate, I even drew some designs :)

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