Cheesecake

[Anonymous]

What is your favorite?
Recipes?
Best place to buy cheesecake in DC area?

[Anonymous]

This is a good recipe: https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/new-york-style-cheesecake.html

Don’t skip the foil wrap & water bath!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is your favorite?
Recipes?
Best place to buy cheesecake in DC area?

There are so many variations of cheesecake; it’s not one size fits all. Many people don’t like NY style because it’s too dense and heavy; others (like me) don’t particularly like Cheesecake Factory cheesecake because it’s more light and fluffy.

[Anonymous]

I have always preferred a NY style cheesecake, and do not love the fluffier ones. I'll make an exception for a good Basque though.

[Anonymous]

Any recipes for "fat free" cheesecake. Lol oxymoron

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any recipes for "fat free" cheesecake? Lol oxymoron

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any recipes for "fat free" cheesecake. Lol oxymoron

Take a bowl of sawdust. Add sugar. Serve.

[Anonymous]

My cheesecake is simple, I crush up graham crackers, butter & sugar and press it into springform pan. I mix 4 packages of cream cheese at room temp., 1 and 1/2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, and 2 tbs of lemon juice. Pour into springform pan. I use these "magic cake strips" which are these insulated strips that you wet and put around the cake pan. Just like a water bath it keeps the outside from heating too quickly before the inside of the cheesecake.

I can never do a water bath properly. It doesn't matter how much foil I use, water always gets inside the pan.

[Anonymous]

I most did the pumpkin cheesecake from the McCormick spice website and it was terrific. When I baked it, I half-filled a loaf pan with water and placed it in the oven next to the cheesecake, per another recipe. You could probably substitute a layer of something else in for the pumpkin.

[Anonymous]

White chocolate raspberry cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory.

[Anonymous]

Any recs to buy in NoVa?

[Anonymous]

Buy Junior's online! Goldbelly has them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buy Junior's online! Goldbelly has them

+1 (buy straight from Junior's - they usually have good sales). If they throw in a second cheesecake for free, get it and put in the freezer.

Also, the Dutch Market in Germantown used to have great cheesecake, but I haven't been there in awhile, so not sure if it still does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My cheesecake is simple, I crush up graham crackers, butter & sugar and press it into springform pan. I mix 4 packages of cream cheese at room temp., 1 and 1/2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, and 2 tbs of lemon juice. Pour into springform pan. I use these "magic cake strips" which are these insulated strips that you wet and put around the cake pan. Just like a water bath it keeps the outside from heating too quickly before the inside of the cheesecake.

I can never do a water bath properly. It doesn't matter how much foil I use, water always gets inside the pan.

Can't you just have water "in" the oven somewhere? Isn't steam the answer vs the actual bathing?

[Anonymous]

I'm partial to the fluffier versions and tend toward lemon or lime to make them even lighter.

Chocolate/white chocolate just drag them down further into densetown for me.