Chai “Cheese”cake & Happy Birthday Mr. HPP
11 May, 2008 by halfpintpixie
Mr. HPP is having a wonderful birthday, we went to the beach, for a walk in the woods, to the playground, got takeout soy cappuchinos with hummus & tomato pesto bruschettas, and generally chilled. Littlepixie is having a snooze, Mr. HPP is reading his birthday books and I’m letting you all know that Chai “Cheese”cake rocks! Oh it’s very, very delicious indeed. Have a look…
The recipe suggests keeping the cheesecake in the fridge for 24 hours to let the flavours develop so I made it yesterday.
Quite a simple recipe so only one real substitution was made. I have no idea what Graham crackers are so I made the base out of bourbon creams, anyone who has had these will appreciate what a yummy base it must be. I thought it would be hard to find vegan chocolate biscuits to crush but as with many “cream” biscuits, the bourbon creams are vegan, excellent! I separated the biscuits from their cream fillings and crushed them. The cream fillings mysteriously disappeared over the course of the day!
This morning I lightly dusted the top of the “cheese”cake with some Cocodirect Drinking Chocolate mix and a scattering of dairy-free chocolate buttons. Very, very delicious.
This was our first foray into the wonderful world of My Sweet Vegan by Hannah Kaminsky from Bittersweet Blog and I must say our tastebuds are very, very happy indeed!
Roll on Green Tea-mirisu next week 
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looks so good!
As far as I know, graham crackers in US= digestive biscuits in UK.
Happy birthday Mr.HPP!
Looks absolutely divine!! Happy Birthday Mr. HPP… and, graham crackers are yummalicious thin, sweetish crackers. They make a heavenly crust, but yours sounds really good!
Thank you very much, I’ve had two slices so far and I have room for plenty more
ooh, that looks delicious! and yep, what EY said about graham crackers. http://www.keebler.com/#/crackers/product/detail/
happy birthday, mr. hpp. and happy mother’s day, hpp!
oh! yummy!
Wow! That looks amazing! My older daughter would love this! Maybe next time we have a “girls night” I’ll make it!
I think the cheese cake looks scrumptious. I thought it was funny that you didn’t know about graham crackers and I had no clue about the bourbon creams that you used instead. It seems many recipes now ask for graham crackers or Oreo cookie crumbs interchangeably for crusts.
It looks great- I’m so happy to hear that you enjoyed the recipe!
Thanks everyone, I am delighted at my “cheese”cake making skills! And I’ve learned all about graham crackers. For those of you that don’t know bourbon creams, they’re a heavy chocolate biscuit so an ideal crust!
We’re going to experiment with the last quarter of it, my sister is away on holidays until the end of next week, she’s vegan too and is suitably unimpressed that she hasn’t got to try the cake, so we’re popping a bit in the freezer for her. I’ll let you know what happens!
Hannah, thanks for stopping by! We’re loving your book
It’s so funny to think of someone not knowing what graham crackers are =) and I’m probably all crazy not knowing what bourbon creams are. Anyway, it looks scrumptious!
Welcome to HPP vegandarling, and thanks for commenting on this post because it’s reminded me to take out two slices from the freezer to defrost, hope they turn out yummy!