• Baku
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    11 months ago

    I thought I was on top of everything, but I decided to leave making the cheesecake until today, but now I’ve realised we don’t have the right kind of pan. Recipe calls for a 22cm round spring form, we don’t even have any round pans, let alone a spring form one :/

    We also only have baking trays (like what you’d make cookies on), so I can’t even substitute it for a rectangle or square pan

    The only thing I can think of is we have cupcake trays, so I’m wondering if I should try to make cheesecake cupcakes instead. I realllllllly don’t want to have to venture on the bus down to Kmart

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      11 months ago

      Cupcake cheesecakes will be madly delicious. Just use a packet biscuit of some sort on the bottom and fill up the cupcake with the cheesecake mixture and set overnight in the fridge. As per @[email protected] 's recipie from a few weeks back. Might help to line the cupcake tray with clingfilm to make getting them out of the tray easier. That is, grease the cupcake tray, then put the clingfilm on loosely and poke it into the holes until it’s tight up against the sides. Or use paper cupcake cases if you have these available. Easy to serve too - one each. Maybe put some berries or jam on the top of each one for fancy.

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        11 months ago

        Thanks for the tips. Apparently we did have a circle cake pan hidden away so we used that. Before I was told about it, I had actually greased up the tin with butter and used baking paper rather than glad wrap. Unfortunately we realised that the base on the one we were making was too thick (I was following a rocky road cheesecake recipe) and even spread as thinly as possible it still took up 3 quarters of the (very shallow) cupcake tray

        It’s all good now though. I’ll post a pic in today’s dt

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        11 months ago

        I’ve never tried one, but it looks like tomorrow’s going to be the day I do…

        At least it’ll save me from a sugar induced coma though 😂

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        11 months ago

        My old Melbourne Kmart was 24hr. I wonder whether it stayed open for Christmas?

        Edit: just looked them up - no longer 24hr. Can’t say I’m too surprised, I always wondered who would visit Kmart at 3am and why. They’re open 8-Midnight these days. And yes, they close at 10pm tonight.

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          11 months ago

          My Kmart when I lived in a country town was open 8am-midnight. Coles was 6-midnight. Everything stopped being open late during COVID times and things never went back to usual.

          I used to hang out in the 24hr Kmart in Burwood (still 24/7, fyi, and there’s also a 24/7 Chinese restraint next to it too) at my last place when things got abusive. If I had to flee on a weekend, I’d just chill on the trains and night buses all night, but on weeknights I would take the last 75 out to Burwood and very slowly and meticulously look at every item in excruciating detail then head over to the Coles and if I had money grab a drink. So me + really really tired parents seen to be the main demographic of 24 hour kmarts

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        11 months ago

        My Kmart is open til 8 (which was like an hour after I posted that), and I don’t have a car so it would’ve been a walk, bus, and another walk