Cake has never been my favorite dessert. It's good. I like it. But at our house, we usually prefer pie or cookies or coffeecake. At Pastor & Corinne Piazza's wedding, they had cheesecake. I was stunned! Who knew you could have a dessert at a wedding that wasn't a tiered white cake??? Nathan isn't a cake fan, so he was open to the idea of having cheesecake for last summer's wedding. The guests seemed to find cheesecake a popular treat ... even if a few might've thought it was a little different. So when Rachel floated the idea past Matt for their wedding, he was all for cheesecake!
Cookies were crumbed this morning. Massive amounts of cream cheese have been whipped with sugar and eggs: I bought 36 boxes of cream cheese yesterday. The Irish Cream cakes (here pictured) are beautiful, cooled, and chilling in the fridge. The Snickers cakes are cooling on the table. As soon as they're cool enough to give up their springform sides, we can go on to Turtle cakes.I wasn't sure how it would work to make ten cakes when I only have a set of three nesting springform pans. So we cut corrugated-cardboard rounds (basically like what you buy frozen pizza on) and covered them with foil. Then we put a layer of non-stick Reynolds foil over the fake bottoms of my springform pans. We tucked these fake bottoms inside the pans (with the metal bottoms there too!) and built the crusts in the pans just like normal. When the sides were removed and the cakes were cooled, we could just lift the foil-covered cardboard -- cheesecake and all -- from the metal pan-bottom, and go on with the next batch. It worked great! (I know you're all dying to know this because I'm SURE you're planning to make many multiple cheesecakes in the same day later this week.)
What are the green leaves made of on top? They look like some sort of real leaf......tell us please. Could you send me a slice in the mail too?????
ReplyDeleteThose are peppermint leaves- for the purpose of telling the difference between the Irish Cream and the Plain cheesecakes...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Susan! They look absolutely delicious! What a great idea. I tried my first cheesecake back in IL when Taste of Home printed their cheesecake contest winners. The first one was NOT pretty - it smoked up the entire parsonage and I sat in the floor and cried (tears of laughter were part). But I didn't give up, I found some hints and tried again. But sadly, the used springform bit the dust, and I haven't made one since. We like pies in our home too. A cheesecake would unfortunately go to waste - either mine or the trash's. :-)
ReplyDeleteCan't wait. How are the low-fat ones marked?!
ReplyDeleteOh, Glenda, my terrible cheesecake story was when I put the metal bottom in upside-down by mistake. When I took it out of the oven, the bottom popped out, and soft cheesecake guts flew all over the inside and outside of the stove, on the floor, and on the cupboards. Oh, and then there were the burns on my skin from hot cheesecake. It was supposed to be my birthday cake. That afternoon, a certain child was in a minor car accident (no injuries) and ended up in a ditch on an icy road. That canceled my plans to go to Mass in the afternoon. That mess of cheesecake was enough to make me sit down on the cheesecakey floor and cry. You better believe I'm being very very careful taking these cheesecakes out of the oven with all gentleness and great attention to the pan bottoms.
ReplyDeleteRest assured, Mom, they are ALL low-fat. I always buy the neufchatel instead of the regular cream cheese. We'll just ignore the fact that there is butter in the crust and eggs in the batter. And pecans and chocolate in the turtle. And Irish cream in one. And I'm sure Snickers and the whole milk in that one don't have tooooo much fat.
ReplyDeleteI promise -- you can eat carrot sticks and celery sticks first. That will just, like, counteract any fat in the cheesecake.
Wow! Wow! Wow!
ReplyDeleteThe Irish cream are so beautiful. They look perfect for a wedding!
I've decided when the time comes for the girls to get married I am going to pick your brain. You have too many good thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThe cheesecakes look perfect!
I was thinking the same thing as melynda! In fact I was thinking I better get your phone number when the time comes. I love simple and different so perhaps you can become a wedding consultant? Praying you have a great weekend Susan!
ReplyDeleteKarin and Melynda -- I'm not going to remember ANY of this in another year or two. I think my version of "consulting" would be: You Don't Need A Consultant! You just go to church and pray and sing (and DO NOT tamper with the liturgy; at least in both your cases the pastor and organist can be trusted completely). And then you have a party. And you don't have to do it The Way You're Supposed To (except for the liturgy).
ReplyDeleteEverything you say is TRUE! If my kids want to do the party The Way You're Supposed To, then it will be the mother of the bride who will be saying "AW,come on, can't we make sure there's time to play volleyball or something? I was SOOO turned off by 'doing things right' a certain number of years ago that someone will have to convince me before I go for anything complicated. AT least thus far there are only two girls in this family.
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