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Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake

Ingredients

For the crust:

24 (278 grams) Oreo cookies, filling intact

4 tablespoons (57 grams) unsalted butter, melted

For the filling:

8 ounces (227 grams) semisweet chocolate, chopped

24 ounces (680 grams) full fat cream cheese, completely softened to room temperature

1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar

1/2 cup heavy cream, at room temperature

1/4 cup (21 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder

4 large eggs plus 1 egg yolk, at room temperature

1 teaspoon peppermint extract

For the topping:

1 cup (170 grams) semisweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup heavy cream

Crushed candy canes

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 325°F.

Prepare a 9-inch springform pan for a water bath*. Place a large square of heavy-duty aluminum foil underneath the pan. Gently fold the edges up and around the pan. Repeat twice so there are three sheets of foil to ensure a waterproof seal. Gently fold the top of the foil around the edge of the pan. Spray pan with nonstick cooking spray.

Make the crust:

In the bowl of a food processor, process the cookies until you have 1 cup finely ground crumbs. Add the butter and pulse until moistened. Press into the bottom and halfway up the sides of the pan.

Bake for 10 minutes, or until fragrant. Let cool slightly and maintain oven temperature while making the filling.

Make the filling:

In a microwave-safe bowl, microwave the chopped chocolate in 30-second bursts, stirring between bursts, until melted and smooth. Let cool.

In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the cream cheese on medium speed until completely smooth and free of lumps, scraping down the bowl as needed. Add the sugar, cream, and cocoa powder and beat until well combined. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl to make sure all cream cheese is being incorporated. Add the eggs and yolk, one at a time, beating just until smooth. Gradually beat in the peppermint extract and melted chocolate until just combined. Be careful not to overbeat.

Pour the batter into the cooled crust. Tap the pan against the counter to release any air bubbles. Place the pan in a larger roasting pan. Pour boiling water into the roasting pan until the water is about halfway up the sides of the cheesecake pan. Bake at 325°F for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes, or until the top looks slightly dry but the middle is still wobbly like Jell-O. Err on the side of underbaking rather than overbaking.

Turn off the oven, crack the oven door open, and allow to cool for 45 minutes. This will help prevent cracks.

Remove the cheesecake from the oven to a wire rack to cool to room temperature.

Refrigerate until completely chilled, at least 4 hours. Release the cheesecake from the pan onto a cake stand or serving plate.

Make the topping:

Place the chocolate chips in a medium heatproof bowl. In a small saucepan, heat the cream just until simmering. Pour over the chocolate chips. Let sit for 3 minutes, then stir until the mixture is melted and smooth. If needed, allow to cool slightly to thicken. Pour over the cheesecake.

Sprinkle with crushed candy canes. Serve or store in the fridge for up to 5 days.

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https://youtu.be/x_zIRxLp_-4?si=3SyLgW3McxByUSGo

What's your opinion on this video about the "endless reinvention of Greek mythology"?

I would call this an essential video to see if you follow this blog. Put it in the background and do something else, but please listen to it. It is absolutely worth it. There are many Greeks in the comments agreeing with the video, and for a good reason. Please read their insightful comments as well!

Feast your eyes at some:

Ironically, the voices and perspectives of Greeks would not have been heard if it wasn't for this... Anglophone woman 😂 This is not her fault, however. It's just how things are, unfortunately. I am sure she is self-aware enough to recognize this. In fact, she is one of the few Anglophone women who actually gives Greeks a voice and enables us to be heard more.

Still, this is not to minimize her great video. She goes into depth of the cultural appropriation of Greek culture by Northwest Europeans (And Americans, later) for centuries. She also discusses the harm that was done to Greece by that "love" of those Great Powers that looted Greece dry (even before Elgin). She finds faults at Americans and other Westerners considering themselves the straight inheritors of Greek culture, and she explains it with facts.

As Kate Alexandra says in the 5th part: "When these myths have a vague universality, it's very deliberate. The 19th century Classicists made sure that antiquity sat outside of History."

These people were the ones to write, as seen in the video, "Not even the names have remained the same" - meanwhile the Greek people and places, still having Greek names.... (I have seen records of villages, many many places and people still had Greek names you could find in antiquity) It really shows how surface-level of Greek language and Greek history was.

Another very important section is the one referring to how the study of the Classics by Western nations is done in such a way that uplifted ideals linked to white supremacy, colonization and genocide. (I promise I don't say this to be edgy. Just watch the video). That's why you will see me and other Greeks very suspicious of Western classicists. We know the white supremacist and imperialist, colonist lens through which their professors filter the material.

Greeks know that rhetoric very well, and we know how it has been used to harm us again and again. The German Nazis are just an example. Our ancestors hid our ancient artifacts so the conquerors wouldn't steal them like their predecessors did.

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Classic literature fans when the insane white boy gets really sick for a long period of time

wtiom

hey sorry your boyfriend said that russian classics are about that life is bleak. yeah he meant dostoyevsky and tolstoy. no, he didn't look beyond any of the lowest lows of the stories. he didn't even see the overarching themes of beauty and hope and connection. frankly we have all been laughing about him and we're gonna beat him up now. sorry

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I really like this russian edition of classic books. Letting famous artists do the covers in YA style was such a simple but clever decision. According to the recent study the number of teenage readers increased, possibly thanks to these covers. I own traditional classics with blank covers but if I ever see one of these in the wild, it’ll probably make me go feral.

Here are some of my favs: