Cheesecake: Yay Or Nay?

[Aeson]

I tried cheese cake when I was younger and didn't care much for it. I tried it again perhaps a different kind and liked it. Is it something that I like to eat a lot of? Not really. I'll take regular cake or pie more often.

 

[ssampier]

I rather enjoy cheesecake. For Thanksgiving this year we made a homemade Pumpkin cheesecake. The cake cracked at the top, but still tasted excellent. After that, for office Christmas party we made Plain Cheesecake. We used a water-bath this time; no more cracks.

 

[Orius]

Depends on what you mean by cheesecake.

Oh, what am I talking abut? The answer is yes anyway.

 

[Gytrash]

I've yet to meet a cake I didn't like.

 

[MonkeyDragon]

As humble worshippers of the Church of Alton Brown can attest, cheesecake is not, in fact, CAKE. It is pie. Custard pie. A crust with a filling that is set with eggs.

This, however, is merely a trifling detail. Cheesecake, in all its forms, is Full of Win.

A more stirring debate might be HOW one prefers one's cheesecake. I like my cheesecake DENSE. I can enjoy lighter and fluffier cheesecakes, and I like them either quite sweet and full of stuff (like pumpkin, or chocolate), or less sweet and topped with fruit, but to me a real proper cheesecake should be heavy as a brick. A good cheesecake can kill someone at twenty paces.

I'm quite a good baker, and make a very good cheesecake. Unfortunately, thus far I've only managed to create cakes that could kills someone at ten paces. Someday, I will find the ultimate recipe...

 

[Avarice]

A more stirring debate might be HOW one prefers one's cheesecake. I like my cheesecake DENSE. I can enjoy lighter and fluffier cheesecakes, and I like them either quite sweet and full of stuff (like pumpkin, or chocolate), or less sweet and topped with fruit, but to me a real proper cheesecake should be heavy as a brick. A good cheesecake can kill someone at twenty paces.

I'm quite a good baker, and make a very good cheesecake. Unfortunately, thus far I've only managed to create cakes that could kills someone at ten paces. Someday, I will find the ultimate recipe...

I have a recipe for a fudge truffle cheesecake which might qualify. It's been a long time since I've made it, but I recall it as being approximately as dense as a neutron star. Much more chocolatey, though. And yes, as far as cheesecake is concerned, the denser the better for me.

 

[Relique du Madde]

The cake is a lie.

 

[Demongirl]

YARGGH! I can't stand the taste of the stuff, it's freakin' vile!

 

[Knightfall]

no. In fact chocolate cake is the only cake, all other forms of cake are mere imitations. With the addendum that cheesecake isn't in fact even a pale imitation and is instead some kind of bizzare cream-cheese hybrid thing that needs to relinquish all claims to the word cake, as it's giving other cakes a bad name.

qft!

 

[Aeolius]

Cheesecake! (iTunes Required)

Though to be fair, I prefer Key Lime Pie.