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Baked Raspberry Cheesecake

This recipe is actually from  BBC Goodfood  but there are some ingredients that I've substituted because I do not have them at hand. Nevertheless, the cake is still yummy. Ingredients: 200g Vollkorn Butterkeks from Aldi 75g Butter, melted 600g Cream Cheese 250g Caster Sugar 200g Sour Cream 2 Sachet Vanilla sugar 3 medium eggs 50g all purpose flour 200g raspberry (I use frozen raspberries) 1 cup sugar White chocolate shavings for decorations A tray/dish filled with water (act as bain marie,but placed it on the lower rack) Methods: 1. Heat your oven to 120C and line your round spring form with a grease paper. (I am not sure what is my springform size, but the one I am using is from Ikea. It came together with a pie dish. So if you have purchased on before, it should be the same size) 2. Crush the biscuits and mix with the melted butter. Push the biscuits into the springform and bake for 10 minutes. Let it rest until needed. Then, place you bain marie in the...

Family Euro Holiday: Amsterdam Part 1

In May, my family came to visit me, and I couldn’t have been more excited! It was a wonderful opportunity to reunite with my parents and siblings, as well as to spend time with my beautiful niece and nephew, whom I miss dearly. In this post, I’ll share a glimpse of our two-week travel itinerary and introduce some of the amazing places we visited. Given the duration of our trip and the number of sights we explored, this will be quite a long post. If you’d prefer to skip the story, you can head straight to my travel page for the detailed account once it’s ready. Just a note—my family members arrived on different days due to their varied holiday schedules, with my dad being the last to join us. The first group to land in Amsterdam included my sister and her family, my brother and his wife, along with a friend of my aunt. Well, technically, I was the first to arrive since I live in the EU. Instead of flying into Amsterdam, I decided to travel by train. I chose this mode of transport becau...