Ambitious Deliciousness – Dont Eat Lazy.

For this month’s Daring Bakers challenge, our mission was to make cheesecake. I read through the recipe and learned that it would require at least a couple of hours, plus chill time in the fridge.

Guest photo by Edmond H. Lee

I followed the recipe – preheated the oven, creamed the ingredients together, made the crust, added to spring pan, then placed it in oven.

After clearing all the dishes, I found an egg hiding behind my stand mixer, on my counter top. How did that get in there? That’s when I realized that I forgot to add the third egg!

It tasted ok, but I’m sure it would have been superbly delicious, had I not made that huge mistake!

But the good news is that I have the privilege of showing you some great photos by my friend and guest photographer, Edmond H. Lee. More on that later – let’s get back to the recipe!

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(Above photo credit belongs to Albert @ www.uvhaze.com. Be sure to check out his blog, as he has some amazing photos! -Ambitious)

A couple of years ago, I made a red velvet cake from scratch to take to C’s Christmas party (remember that, ladies?). The cake being hard as brick, not to mention the underwhelming color – I hadn’t used nearly enough food coloring. It was eligible to be featured on Cake Wrecks!

According to Wikipedia, “Common ingredients include buttermilk, butter, flour, cocoa powder, and often either beets, or red food coloring. It is most popular in the Southern United States, though known in other regions.”

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