This isn’t really the blog I wanted to write this week. I wanted to write about something I hadn’t tried before. I wanted to write about a Tofu Peanut Butter Pie. It sounds interesting and different…perhaps even difficult, although the recipe suggests otherwise. This is what I wanted to tell you;
I took 16 ounces of silken tofu, 1 cup of peanut butter, a 3/4 cup of sugar, 2 tablespoons of milk (or soy milk if you are vegan) and 2 teaspoons of vanilla essence and blended them all together in a food processor. I then poured all of this mixture into a pre-bought sweet pastry case and topped it with yet more peanut butter and then drizzled chocolate all over it and put it in the fridge. After two hours, I bought out the pie and everyone admired my wonderful craftsmanship. It was just so beautiful to look at some people even cried. They said it was the nicest thing they had ever seen and tasted and every last piece of the pie was gobbled up so fast that people begged me to make more.
However, none of this took place and so I can not tell you about this wonderful pie. Instead, what I can tell you is what really happened and that was;
I went to Morrisons to get the ingredients for said “wonderful pie” and Morrisons did not have silken tofu. They didn’t even have regular tofu. I was appalled. My dreams of how amazing this pie could have been crumbled right then and there. Then suddenly I remembered a different, quick and “amazing” recipe.
The recipe was for White Chocolate Cheesecake and I had been instructed to make this by my sister-in-law for my father-in-law’s 60th birthday back in February. My sister-in-law had said this was the best cheesecake she had ever tasted (and she loves cheesecake) and that she would get me the recipe from her mother-in-law. (Sorry for all the “in-laws” I hope you’re keeping up!). Anyway, she was really put out when it turned out that “the most amazing cheesecake ever” really was incredibly easy to make and involved buying a sweet pastry case and therefore, not really “making” very much!
I kept the sweet pastry case I’d picked up for the pie and bought 400g of philadelphia, some caster sugar, white chocolate and raspberries and headed home to make the cheesecake although I was disappointed that it wouldn’t be “wonderful pie”.
At home, I mixed 400g of philadelphia with 125g of caster sugar. Whilst I was doing that part, I had 200g of white chocolate in a bowl melting over a pan of boiling water. Here is perhaps the only complex part of the whole thing. You do not stir white chocolate whilst it is melting. Apparently it causes the chocolate to “split”. I was also told when given this recipe to make sure I used “good quality” white chocolate. Not really sure how much of a difference there is if you use “cheaper” chocolate, but that’s what I was told when I was given the recipe.
After the chocolate had melted I then tried to pour and scrape as much of it into my cream cheese mixture as possible, whilst wondering whether or not that was “allowed” or if that would cause the chocolate to “split” too….I was unsure. I folded the chocolate into the mixture still thinking about why this was allowed but stirring the chocolate isn’t. Once it was all mixed in I poured it into the pre-made sweet pastry case and then popped it in the fridge.
Now you could always make your own base for the cheesecake, but I do like cutting corners and things being fairly “quick” whilst still kinda “homemade”. This recipe is so good for last minute having friends round or dinner parties etc….so quick and so little mess!
After a few hours of letting it set, I decorated it with raspberries, just to make it look pretty. I’m not much of a raspberry fan, but the kids like them. It is a really nice cheesecake and so easy to make with so few ingredients too. Still wish it had been “Tofu Peanut Butter Pie” instead though….I really wanted to try that.