Cheesecake

A cheesecake is a dessert which is either made of, or has a soft topping of, ricotta cheese, quark, twar?g, or more usually cream cheese, sugar and sometimes other ingredients such as eggs, cream and fruit, on a cookie crumb crust. Various other flavorings may be added, such as vanilla or chocolate, and a fruit topping, like strawberry is frequently added. Some types of cheesecake are custard pie, rather than a true cake, which leads many novice bakers to cheesecake failure. The above mentioned ricotta topping is used widely in Italy and is whipped with other ingredients to a consistency such as that of whipped cream. Often the base is more pastry like, and the cheesecake is far lighter than a traditional uncooked cheesecake.

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Cheesecake is one of the most common desserts in the world and perhaps one of the oldest involving dairy other than milk. The first recorded mention of cheesecake was during the ancient Grecian Olympic games in the occidental world. Marcus Porcius Cato (or Cato the Elder) wrote of cheesecake preperation in one of the only extant Roman cookbooks called De Agricultura.

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The word cheesecake is also used to describe the creamy, cheesy flavor of the cake. In that usage, there's cheesecake yogurt, ice cream, brownies, and cookies.

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New York City is regarded as a source of excellent cheesecake. Junior's, in Brooklyn, is the traditional place to get good New York-style cheesecake.

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Dessert: Dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a dinner, usually consisting of sweet food but sometimes of a strongly flavored one, such as some cheeses. The word comes from the Old French desservir, meaning "to clear the table". Dessert is most commonly used in Hiberno-English, American, Ca...

Ricotta cheese: Ricotta (pronounced in Italian) is an Italian cheese made from the whey which results when making cheeses such as mozzarella or provolone. The name "ricotta" means "cooked again" in Italian, referring to the second processing of the liquid to produce the cheese. Ricotta is similar in texture to cot...

Quark: :For other uses of this term, see: Quark (disambiguation)...

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Table with Utensils and Cheesecake Recipe