It's next weekend here in town. People have signed up to bake their best, tastiest cheesecakes, and other people have signed up to try them out. Of course, I've signed up to try them. I'm soooo excited about going to this, since as some of ya'll know, I'm a cheesecake fanatic. I get to vote on my favorite cheesecake, and take the recipes home too. Gotta save my appetite, so I'll be good and hungry. This is going to be great.
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Think of me when you eat the chocolatey ones.

JuliePurplehead said:

I sure will.

note to self....get that banana cream cheesecake recipe right for a cheesecake bake off!

KatSkrizzle said:

Banana cream cheesecake sounds delicious!

Last Christmas, I had a cheesecake that was made with cranberries.
I havent stopped thinking about it since.

dreamfactory313 said:

Cranberry cheesecake - yum!

mmmm cheesecake!

one of my favorites Kahlua Cheesecake

'Cheesecake fanatic'.


Go for gold, Nancy! After 68 slices, I can see the follow-up to this thread: 'I HATE cheesecake'.






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onenitealone said:

veronikka said:

She'll be so sick of it - wait and see.

I looooove cheesecake. Especially blueberry. :diesandgoestoheaven:

make sure and try the penis flavored cheesecake

onenitealone said:

Even after that many slices I just dont see myself ever hating cheesecake

I love me some cheesecake!!

I envy you.

A LOT.

veronikka said:

OMG that looks good

Seriously....I think I am going to start developing a few recipes and enter these things.....


Oh. My. God.


I haved turned into June Cleaver!


But my cheesecakes are the TRUTH!

veronikka said:

Looks yummy!!

onenitealone said:

veronikka said:

onenitealone said:

Blueberry cheesecake sounds heavenly! Not sick of cheesecake yet, and hope that I never will be.

veronikka said:

Me neither. Cheesecake is the dessert from heaven.

he makes the best cheesecakes

MoniGram said:

Ditto

TMPletz said:

babooshleeky said:

Doesn't it? Gotta find a recipe for that online.

KatSkrizzle said:

You definitely should enter a cheesecake bake-off. You never know, you could be the winner.

ehuffnsd said:

George Geary? Never heard of him, but I'll take your word for it.

psychodelicide said:

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The Cheesecake Bible, George Geary CCP author, (Robert Rose Publishers, Fall 2008)
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125 Best Food Processor Recipes, George Geary CCP author, (Robert Rose Publisher, Fall 2005)
125 Best Biscuit Mix Recipes, George Geary CCP author, (Robert Rose Publisher, Spring 2004)
125 Best Cheesecake Recipes, George Geary CCP author, (Robert Rose Publisher, Fall 2002)
Quick & Simple Magazine, Hearst Corp, contributing author
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Cooking Pleasures magazine, contributing author
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On Cooking, (Julia Child Award nominee) by Sarah Labensky, text consultant
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Okay, so I just got back from the Cheesecake Bake-Off. OMG, it was sooo much fun getting to try 8 different flavored cheesecakes. There were about 8 people who baked a cheesecake, and about 20-25 people there who got to taste them, and vote for their favorite. You got 5 tickets for tasting 5 different pieces of cheesecake, and another ticket for voting, for $7. I wound up getting to try all 8 without having to pay the $1 extra per ticket, since the gentlemen at the table next to me had some that he was not using. Whenever you took a piece of cheesecake, you would drop the ticket into a glass bottle that was in front of the individual who baked it. We also got to vote on which one that we liked best, which was a hard, hard choice for all of us, since they were all sooooo damn good. The cheesecake that won was an apple pie flavored one. It was good, but not my favorite. The winner got a $25 gift certificate to The Cheesecake Factory (which is the place that started my cheesecake craze). The people who were there were all very friendly, and I had a great time. This is the first cheesecake bake-off that they had. I hope they have another one next year, because I definitely will go again.