I’ve made maybe a dozen or so cheesecakes over the years. All of them have had horrible cracks on top, cracks I have had to cover with all manner of fruit and cream and apologies to dinner guests who didn’t give a shit anyway, they just wanted dessert. I have never, ever baked a cheesecake using a water bath. Because I am lazy. Well! Time to turn over a new cheesecake leaf!
I used this recipe with slight reservation, as you might notice the cheesecake pictured there has a gigantic fucking crack in it. But I used a water bath, I set an alarm for 3 AM so I could move it from the counter to the the fridge and keep the delicate, fragile, stupid thing from cooling too quickly all at once, and then I got up at 7 AM so I could cover my fussy cheesecake newborn in bourbon caramel.
Cheesecake Baby, you were delicious, and we loved you very, very much until we ate you.
THING #64: DONE (3/101)
