Cheesecake

banana / caramel / biscoff

 
 

Junk’s Jam:

Serves 4

Hey!

Lotus, Biscoff, coffee biscuits: whatever you call them. They are amazing! The corner stone of a biscuit to hairdressers everywhere. Well from Cams very limited experience. We mean he had one once in a hairdressers when he was about 8, thats it, however, the memory stayed for a long time. This is a good wee recipe!

Equipment…

>Hand Blender >Piping Bags
>1 Sheet A4 Acetate
>Sellotape
>Blowtorch

The Recipe

Stage #1
>the PREP

Biscoff Caramel

80g Biscoff Smooth Spreadble Stuff
(Can you believe they make that shit! Amazing! The future is here, but who the actual christ is eating that on toast? Mental, Anyway..)
40g Golden Syrup
80g Condensed Milk
35g Salted Butter

  • Place all of the ingredients together into a pot and put on a low heat. Serious low heat! This burns instantly when you turn way from the pot.

  • When the mixture is close to coming to a boil remove from the heat and blitz with a Hand Blender - transfer to a tub and leave to cool.

 
 

Dulce De Leche

1 Tin of Condensed Milk

  • Get a a large pot that is big enough to hold a can of Condensed Milk and cover it with Water.

  • Boil the can (unopened) for 2 hours - please make sure that you top up the pot with water if it starts to get low. Been there and done that. Not fun!

  • After the 2 hours leave to cool completely at room temp.

  • Open the can and transfer the contents to a Piping Bag and refrigerate.

 
 

Biscoff Cheesecake & Tubes

200g Biscoff Caramel
150g Cream Cheese
150g Slightly Over-whipped Cream

  • We did not think we would have to explain in a recipe how to over whip cream, but just incase you are not aware. Put the Cream into a bowl and over whip it. Not into butter just a slight over whip - excellent.

  • Beat the Biscoff Caramel and Cream Cheese together until smooth, fold through the over whipped Cream - Place into a Piping Bag.

  • Cut your Acetate into 6 equal sized square pieces. Roll into rounds about the thickness of a decent sized thumb and secure with a piece of Sellotape. Pipe in the Cheesecake mixture and freeze.

  • Reserve the rest of the Cheesecake for plating.

 
 

Salted Popcorn

50g Popcorn Kernals

or

1 Bag Microwavable Salted Popcorn

Oil
Salt

  • Microwave as per - done.

    or

  • Get a large pot and coat with a little bit of Oil - place onto a medium high heat.

    Make sure you have a lid and then just stop reading this as you have already bought the micro stuff. Why the fuck would you go to all the effort of even just trying to find the Kernels in the supermarket. It took us about an hour to find them! ZERO HELP from the staff, no idea what we were on about! So, just buy the micro stuff or better yet get the already popped and salted Popcorn? The Kernels are cheaper by far, its about £2 for 500g which will make you a literal shed worth of popcorn, but who wants that much?! You need about 20 Kernels for this recipe! So just put your Chef’s pride to one side for a bloody minute and go buy some pre-popped.

    Really you are still hanging on for a method of how to cook the Popcorn?

  • Get your Oil on a medium high heat. Add in the Kernels. Place a lid on and wait for the popping to start. Give it a good shuffle every now and again to help the evenness.

  • Once the popping starts to slow down remove from the heat and leave for 5 minutes.

  • Take off the lid and sprinkle in a generous amount of Salt.

  • Home-made is actually a lot better!

 
 

Caramelised Banana

2 x Straight Banana
80g Caster Sugar

  • Cut your Banana into decent sized choad portions.

  • Lay out some Sugar on a plate or oven tray and roll the Banana over the Sugar evenly coating the full thing.

  • Using your Blowtorch blast the Sugar evenly until fully caramelised on each side.

 
 

Garnish

2 Biscoff Biscuits
1 Lemon (Zest)

  • Break up your Biscoff.

  • Get ready to zest a Lemon.

Stage #3
>Assemble