Kinder Bueno Cheesecake

Hi folks! I hope you all had a great weekend. On Saturday I had the pleasure of attending my very first southern Italian wedding; my stomach is now in recovery, and I will be posting all about it in the very near future! For now though, check out this delicious (and very simple) Kinder Bueno Cheesecake recipe, which I recently made to try and impress my boyfriend's family, along with a couple of other calorific treats (have a look at that blog post here)

  To give credit where credit is due, I actually took this recipe from boutiquebake.com. I only made one little alteration: just a little extra butter. I found that the original amount didn't quite bind the biscuit together as much as I wanted.

Here's what you'll need:

For the biscuit base: 300g of digestives and 200g of butter

For the cheesecake: 350ml of whipped cream, 450g of cream cheese, 150g of sifted icing sugar and 6 single Kinder Bueno bars. You can obviously use more Kinder Bueno bars if you wish!

 First, place a sheet of greaseproof paper in a circular spring clip tip. You could use a normal tin, but it might be a little tricky taking the cheesecake out later. Melt the butter and then crush the digestive biscuits well. Then mix them together and press into the tin. Make sure they are nice and compact.

Whip up the cream, and in a separate bowl mix the cream cheese and icing sugar. You can do this by hand but I found it much easier using an electric whisk! Melt the broken up Kinder Buenos either in the microwave or over a saucepan of hot water, then mix all of the ingredients together. Spread the mixture over the biscuit base, making sure it's smooth and level.

Put the cheesecake in the fridge for at least 4 or 5 hours to set properly. I left mine in there overnight at this was perfect. I then topped it with chocolate sauce and some extra Kinder Bueno chunks.

The great thing about this recipe is that you can modify it easily. In the future I'm going to use the same basic recipe to make an Oreo or Snickers cheesecake. It's making me hungry just thinking about it....

Buon appetito! :D

Food Friday: gorgeous gelato...

There are many things I love about the Italian summer. Al fresco dining, trips to the beach, and seeing my lovely little town bathed in glorious sunshine.

But there's something else that I (literally) just can't get enough of, even as the summer is coming to an end (boo!) and that's gelato. Gorgeous, glorious, gluttonous gelato. I've always been a fan of ice cream, but the real gelato experience is something else entirely. Creamy, smooth, flavoursome and absolutely delicious.

It costs about €1.30 for a cone or a cup in my town. I like to 'control' my portions by often going for the cup, but I eat it so often that it's really quite pointless.

Left- Kinder bueno, Right- Kinder paradiso and Chocolate

Yours truly, getting stuck in (and probably dripping it all down my t-shirt..)

And the choice is definitely not limited to your standard strawberry, chocolate, vanilla and nut. Oh no. As well as the usual, there are also flavours like melon, peach, pistachio and nutella (the latter of which is unbelievably good but oh-so-rich).

yum.

again, yum.

Chocolate is still one of my favourites however, even though it's a traditional flavour and not so exciting as the others. 'Bacio' (bottom photo, far left) is a chocolatey with lots of yummy hazelnuts, and on the far right, is one of my other favourites, 'Magnum Mandorle'. Chocolatey, almondy and just plain awesome. It's the great big chunks of chocolate in it that really do it for me.

If chocolate based ice cream isn't what you go for, then you could try these instead:

Watermelon

Coconut

'Zuppa Inglese'

The last one is literally translated as 'English soup'. Doesn't sound too good does it? Well, it is a little odd. The best description I can come up with, is that it's quite like trifle. Give it a go!

Buon apetitto! :D