Tag: cheesecake

crustless cheesecake with raspberry coulis

Happy National Cheesecake Day! I had some leftover cream cheese AND sour cream that I didn’t use for the wedding cake last week, plus I noticed that the food holiday for today is National Cheesecake Day (Which to me, I don’t usually follow. We’ve gone overboard with all the fake arbitrary food holidays, IMO, but…

July 30, 2014
What A Crock! Slow Cooker Cheesecake

I usually don’t think of using my slow cooker for making dessert, but this recipe interested me because it removes the need to mess with a water bath in one’s oven, which has always been one of the things I don’t like about making a cheesecake. Plus, the resulting cheesecake promised to be “unbelievably silky” from the steam…

March 22, 2014
Ginger cheesecake with caramel bananas

Initially I thought that topping this cheesecake with candied crystallized ginger would be appropriate, but it turns out that bananas work much better with both the caramel and the cheesecake. One substitute I did make from the original recipe, however, was to use Anna’s ginger thins instead of digestive biscuits, simply because I have…

January 26, 2014
Goat Cheese Cheesecake with Cherry Black Pepper Compote and Homemade Graham Cracker Crust

I’ve been wanting to make Anne Burrell’s Goat Cheese Cheesecake for the longest time, but didn’t want to make the traditional shape using a springform pan and cutting it into wedges. Plus, I had this pan that had been stored away, years ago, after only one use. So, today I made six individual half-spheres of goat…

November 28, 2013
The waiting is the hardest part.

This is for a potluck for a co-worker’s wedding I’m attending tonight. I just took it out of the oven and waiting for the pumpkin cheesecake to cool down so I could put it in the fridge for at least 6 hours before the party. I used this recipe. I folded aluminum foil to place around…

October 4, 2013