My First Step In Cake Making

I was craving for cheesecake. But then I was too lazy to watch over the oven, so I decided to make a non-bake cheesecake.I sourced for some easy to follow recipe and I found one that requires only a few simple ingredients such as cream cheese, a can of sweetened condensed milk and digestive biscuits. It sounds easy, except that when it comes to mixing the filling, I really had hell with it. The recipe called for cream cheese but it did not say to mix it at room temperature. And being an amateur and a greenhorn, I mixed the unsoftened cream cheese with the condensed milk and my...I tell you...the filling was so lumpy. It took me almost an hour to blend it till smooth and well...not quite smooth because there were still lumps in it. Luckily I had a sieve at home, so I put the fillin through the sieve and lo and behold...I had a smooth and creamy mixture..yeah!~~ I am so pleased with myself.I filled up my crust with the filling and put it in the fridge for 5 hours. But the filling did not firm up as I had wanted it to, so I thought maybe I should it into the freezer for awhile. And it worked perfectly!! The non-bake cheesecake turned out to be quite yummy. I should put in more lemon to give it more tang the next time.