Cheesecakes

I like cheesecake, especially if it is a chocolate cheesecake with an Oreo cookie crust topped with whipped cream. No cheesecake is safe from me. Cheesecake is one of my favorite desserts, and I will try different kinds when presented with the opportunity.

The time needed to make cheesecake prevents me from baking it more often. Patience is needed with cheesecakes. The baking time is 1 hour to 1 hour and a half, then chill the cake overnight, and then it's ready to eat. Despite this, I still enjoy baking cheesecakes; one of my favorites to make is Japanese cotton cheesecake, which is similar to a sponge cake-cheesecake hybrid in my opinion, and is cake-like when freshly baked. However, when it is allowed to chill, you can tell why it is called a cotton cheesecake; it takes on a texture that is a bit denser than an average sponge cake. I can also make the classic New York-style cheesecake as well. It's quite rewarding when I can eat my chilled cake the next day.

My mother and I wondered if we could speed up the process, so we tried an instant cheesecake recipe. It had no eggs and was just Cool-Whip and cream cheese with sugar, pretty much, and there was no baking required. After mixing the ingredients, you just let it chill in the fridge for a couple of hours. I was skeptical about this recipe because I believe there is no rush to perfection, and my mother, on the other hand, believed we should give it a chance. Nobody in the house liked it very much, and it sat in our freezer for weeks, pretty much forgotten, until somebody brave decided to throw it out.

I began to see Basque cheesecakes on TikTok. I was intrigued because this was a cheesecake that was baked at high temperatures for 30 minutes or less, rather than low and slow like other cheesecakes. It uses the same ingredients as a normal cheesecake, more or less, and since it is baked at a high temperature, it rises quickly, then deflates, creating this concave middle with a crusty top. It still needs to be chilled like a normal cheesecake before serving. I've had the urge to bake one. I have not made one yet. So I scrolled through the comments to try to find people who had made the cheesecake and see what they had to say, but unfortunately, many people found baked cheesecake to be an odd thing. It made me realize a lot of people probably do not know that cheesecakes that are sold at stores are most likely baked.