Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Cheesecake Bliss

Keali'i had been begging me for what seemed like weeks to make a cheesecake with him. He bought some chocolate baking squares, and on the back of the box it had a recipe for chocolate cheesecake. I told him we couldn't make it until we had a springform pan. He didn't understand, but I insisted it was necessary to make a cheesecake.

This weekend, we bought one of those springform pans, and we tried our hand at making our first cheesecake together. Here's how it turned out:


It's a chocolate cheesecake with Oreo crust and a strawberry topping. If I do say so myself, it turned out wonderfully!

I did run into a tiny problem though. I had to cook it a little longer than the recipe said because the middle didn't seem "set" enough. But when I took the cheesecake out of the oven, it started to develop two massive cracks throughout the top! They reminded me of the Grand Canyon in cheesecake form!

Anyway, I googled how to mend the cracks, and it turns out a lot of people have this problem with their cheesecakes. Basically, once it's cooled down completely in the fridge, you use your fingers to sort of push the cracks together as best you can. Then you take a spatula, or a flat metal device, (I used a spoon), and you dip it into hot water to smooth and fill the cracks. Voila! It looked almost perfect. I should've taken before and after pictures to illustrate... And once I put the topping on, you couldn't tell anyway.

Happy Baking!
Lesly <3

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