Cream cheese coffee cake

Hubby kept nagging at me that I didn't make his favourite cake - Coffee cake. So I took some time to modify this coffee cake recipe I found online. Couldn't put in blueberry as my hubby hates fruits and needed to change some of the ingredients as I did not have them at home.

For the cake base:
1 1/2 c rice flour mix ( I used plain flour)1/4 t salt
1/4 t xanthan gum (I don't know what is this, so I didn't put this in)2 t baking powder
1/4 c butter, softened
1/4 c sugar
1 egg
2/3 c milk
1 t vanilla (I added 1 t of coffee essense too)

Preheat oven to 190 degree celscius. In a small bowl, blend together the flour mix, salt, xanthan gum, and baking powder, then set aside. Cream the butter and sugar, then beat in the egg, followed by the milk. Add the vanilla, then stir in the flour mixture. Blend well, then spread into a 8x8 pan or an 8" pie/tart pan.

For the cream cheese layer:
8 oz cream cheese, softened

1 egg yolk
1/4 c sugar
2 t lemon juice or vanilla

Smoosh the cream cheese together with the egg, sugar, and lemon juice. Beat until smooth, and drop big spoonfuls on top of the coffee mix.

For the streusel layer:
2 T rice flour or almond meal (I used plain flour)
2 T butter
3 T sugar
1/2 t cinnamon

Mash together all the ingredients with a fork until crumbly. Sprinkle over the cheese layer.

Bake the cake about 45-60 minutes, until no longer jiggley in the center, and starting to brown. Cool completely before serving.

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Arnott's Choc Ripple "Cake"

Thanks to my hubby's cousin, she helped us bought the Arnott Choc Ripple biscuits from Oz. However, I didn't managed to make the "cake" look nice

Preparation time 25 minutes
Chill Time Overnight
Serves 9+

Ingredients
300ml cream
1 tsp caster sugar
Vanilla essence
1 pack Arnott’s Choc Ripple Biscuits
Crushed nuts, grated chocolate or seasonal berries to decorate

Method
Add sugar and a drop of vanilla essence to the cream and whip until very stiff.

Join biscuits together by standing a biscuit on its side and sandwich with the next biscuit using a generous spread of cream. Continue until all the biscuits have been used and resemble a log.

Cover the log thickly and entirely with the remaining cream. Place in refrigerator for at least 6 hours to set.

Before serving, decorate log with grated chocolate, if desired.

To serve, cut cake at a slight angle to ensure alternate layers of chocolate biscuit and cream are in each slice. Serve with seasonal berries, if desired.

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