Cooky Cheesecake - Experiment

Becca's B day Cheesecake, by Lani, Cookie Cheesecake

Well, lets discuss this before I reveal my recipes. 1st off, I need to do a few things differently next time. I did some reading about the perfect cheesecake tips, and realized I did a few things wrong. Which is why my cheesecakes texture was not as flawless dense and smooth. 

Recipes?

My inspiration came from pictures, but I could find no recipe. So I used "Cheesecake Factory Reciipe" I got from ABC News. as my base cheesecake part. and decided on The recipe on the bag for Pams Baking Mix as my cookie crust. I added frozen cookie dough bites to the top of the cheesecake also. The cheesecake had fantastic flavor. And being that I have never done this I decided not to play with the recipe this time. Though I did use some tips from Williams sonoma also. Jacob loved the cheesecake part, but likes chocolate chip cookies without chocolate chips more, so he let us eat the cookie part. 

I already know the changes I need to make, and where I went wrong. The cream cheese only set out like under an hour. So it was not really blending well, so i had to mix more than I wanted, resulting in air in the batter. Also, resulting in unmixed "lumps" (small) so that it was not like the texture of store bought, but more how most ppl cook it from home. Also, I need to develop a plan for the cookie crust. I left it not fully cooked when adding the mixture, knowing it would be cooking further an hour with the cheesecake, but it slid from under the mixture to the sides. Still yummy, but made the cheesecake harder to serve. 

I won't stop till I achieve what I consider THE PERFECT CHEESECAKE. So any chance I get, any reason, I will try to make one to perfect my technique. After my reading, I feel more confident about the next one. 

All in all, A SUPER DELICIOUS EXPERIMENT! Everyone loved it so much it was gone in under two days! I made it that night, then it was gone by the next evening. So I'm glad that even though it was not a 10 in appearance that everyone apparently thought it about that in taste! YAY!

XOXO

LANI D