Mother Effin' Cheesecake...

Seriously, I love cheesecake, and I hate cheesecake.

I love eating cheesecake, I hate baking cheesecake... for some reason I can't seem to get it right. I have chef friends, I have recipes from the Food Network, and none of them seem to hit the mark of making a beautiful cheesecake. What I mean by that, you can't line your springform pan, dump in your batter, and trust the bake time a recipe gives you.

More and more I am realizing that you have to constantly watch the cake. Maybe that's common sense for others, but fuck it, I'm no pastry chef.

Before tonight, I've attempted to make cheesecake twice in my life. The first was a frozen cheesecake recipe, basically I didn't let it set it in the freezer long enough... safe to say it turned into a gloppy, blobby mess. The second was a recipe from a chef client of mine, he must've been thinking about another recipe when he wrote the cook time down, cause 3 hours? Yea, I got a clay pigeon.

Which brings us to tonight.

I mentioned I'm doing the whole Shave to Save thing. Well, as part of the fundraising efforts at work we're having a "Breakfast for Lunch" (Yes, I know you'd probably call that brunch, but I didn't name it). Anyway, the Shavees are having a pastry table, and I opted to go for a cheesecake, for the third time.

Man, I just don't know what I am doing wrong.

Safe to say, they don't look like they came from the Cheesecake Factory. They kinda looked like a collapsed Soufflet? They look edible, unlike my previous cheesecake attempts... but they are by no means pretty cakes. So I sit and wonder if I should serve them tomorrow... Maybe I can add a topping to hide the ugliness... I'm just concerned on the taste... wondering if it tastes like ass. I know the meat of the cake is the right color, but I just don't know...

Well, if you work with me and are reading this. I hope you're feeling brave, cause my cheesecakes will be interesting to say the least.