[Food Review] Tamper Coffee, Sheffield, UK

I used to be a strict Latte fan until my visit of Tamper a year ago on a Sunday morning. They made me a mocha by mistake but the barista insisted that I try it, saying their mocha is very good. And it was. I haven't order a latte since then! But the mocha from Tamper remains my firm favourite. Not too sweet, not too bitter; a perfect marriage between a latte and a hot chocolate <3

Mocha, £2.60 

I had a crossiant for breakfast, which the waiter offered to warm up and serve with jam for me. It was a lovely golden colour and crisp on the outside, fluffy in the inside. What a way to start a Sunday morning!

 Crossiant, £2.00

In my previous visit a week ago, my visiting friend Miss H and I both ordered some devine french toast.for a hearty breakfast before a 10k stroll in the Peak District. I thought 45 minute from sitting down to leaving is enough for breakfast but under-estimated how long the food would take to be made and we ended up running to the rail station. :P The french toast was presented beautifully and I loved the flavours. Maple syrup and bacon taste good with virtually everything. Downsides? The middle of my french toast were slightly under-cooked but I didn't bother to tell the waiter since we were short of time. And I prefer fruit raw so caramelised banana wasn't my thing.

French toast, £6.50.

Egg dipped brioche, caramelised banana and coffee-infused maple syrup with crispy bacon

Both visits were to Tamper's new Sellers Wheel branch, which I find much more spacious and comfortable than the old/original Westfield Terrace branch. Really glad to know that they're doing so well! The Westfield Terrance branch has always been busy and so was the Sellers Wheel branch when I visited not long after their opening times. Impressive stuff. Sellers Wheel also does more substantial dishes for lunch and has a much wider range of choices for breakfast. See their menu here, The old branch does a few cooked things for weekends, including french toast and there is a selection of pastry and cakey things for breakfast and sandwiches for lunch. Excellent coffee served in both branches though!

Add some strolling around to see these beautiful cherry blossom trees at Sheffield Town Hall for a perfect end to a Sunday morning.

P.S. To my delight water in the fountains in the city were no longer yellow as part of a Tour de France themed art event called Paint the City Yellow...it just looked like fluorescent piss.)

Tamper Coffee

Sellers Wheel - 149 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S1 2NU

Monday - Friday 8.00am – 5pm

Saturday 9am – 6pm

Sunday 10am – 5pm

Kitchen closes at 3pm on Mon-Fri; 5pm on Sat; 4pm on Sun 

Visited in March and April, 2014.



Westfield Terrace - 9 Westfield Terrace, Sheffield, S1 4GH

Monday - Friday - 8am - 4.30pm 

Saturday - 9am - 4.30pm 

Sunday - 10am - 4.30pm 

[Baking] Kinder Bueno Cheesecake

This is a very rich cake and it definitely tastes of kinder bueno for all those kinder bueno lovers out there! It is super easy to make and took just under an hour for me. The wafer bits in the kinder bueno bars did become soggy though so maybe they should be broken up more thoroughly after being microwaved so that the sogginess is less noticeable?

The occasion was Mr B's mother's birthday. When I asked Mr B what she likes he went 'anything and everything'. Not helpful. So knowing that Mr B likes kinder bueno, I found this recipe on Google by Boutique Bake and decided to make it. This is actually the first time I've made a non-baked cheesecake successfully. Previous cheesecakes I've made never managed to set despite using different recipes and I've had to freeze and eat them like ice-cream cakes! (Alternatively drink the mixture from a plastic cup...I vaguely remember doing that after a Home Economics lesson in year 7 XD) Anyway since I was making this cake the night before I meet Mr B's mother, it was kind of risky. Luckily, the cake turned out to be perfect <3

Ingredients:

• 300 g digestive biscuits  
• I used McVitie's dark chocolate digestives because I couldn't find any normal ones at Tesco at 9.30pm. It gave the base a slight 'adulty' bitter taste which I thought was quite nice.

• 150 g butter

• 350 mls of fresh cream (whipped)
• I used double cream here and only used 300mls since that's how much a tub contains

• 450g philadelphia cheese

• 150g icing sugar sifted

• 5 kinder bueno bars

Method:

1. Oil a springclip tin where the base can come away from the sides with a bit of sunflower oil.
• I used a sunflower oil spray then a BBQ sauce brush to apply it evenly to the tin
2. Melt butter and crush biscuits in plastic bag using a rolling pin. 
3. Add crushed biscuits to the melted butter and mix. Put in base of tin and make sure its tightly compressed together by using the back of a spoon
4. Whip Philadelphia with electric whisk. 
5. In separate bowl, whip the the cream. Add the icing sugar to the whipped philadelphia and fold in whipped cream.
6. Melt kinder buenos in microwave on low setting and stir every 30 seconds until the chocolate has melted. Add to cheesecake mixture. Pour onto biscuit base and leave in fridge to set.

I covered the cake with cling film and left it to set for almost a day. Took the cake out and..... 

Success! No liquidy mess that needs salvaging by freezing or served in cups instead :P The photo is slightly blurred as Mr B was about to bring his mother into the flat but I haven't lit the candles yet...oops.