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So - what is cheesecakes?

When you think of cheesecake, do you think of something like this:


Or do you, for a random unexplained reason think of a square of puff pastry, covered in icing with shredded coconut on the top?

See, a couple of weeks ago I was telling Craig of when I was little my grandad and I used to take flowers to the graveyard, and on teh way back we'd pop into a little bakery and buy a 'cheesecake' - but this was the coconut pastry that I described above. ("Shhhh, don't tell nan!").

But looking back on it I can't think for a second why it was called 'cheesecake' - or if that was something my grandad made up (though to my memory it was also written on a little cardboard sign, in front of the cheesecakes).

Now, I don't know if my memory has just scrambled itself in my old age, or if the really were called cheesecakes, but I have googled them to no avail.

Does anyone know what I am talking about?

I think 'Yes please' mainly

All cheesecake is good. Except for sprout flavour cheesecake.

I know!

They sell them in the bakery where I get lunch every day.

They like a bit of puffy pastry with some grated white cheese on top.

I've never had one, I don't think.

Nooooo, I mean - do you think of the mascarpone type cheesecake above, or the coconut pastry cheesecake?

The photo shows what I think of as cheesecake. I'm not familiar with the Other Sort, but they sound delicious

More like the mascapone one. (Although I generally use other cheeses for my cheesecakes.)

Oooohhhh!

That is not grated white cheese, rev Owen - it is coconut!

They are sugary, but nice.

I promise you it is not cheese, though I understand why anyone would think that from the name.

but hurrah, they exist! I am not (that) crazy!

I think of normal cheesecake, unless I'm in the bakery, where I'd get very disappointed if I asked for some cheesecake if I didn't switch my brain over to the other meaning.

I thought you were asking if anyone else knew of the pastry style cheesecakes.

EDIT: OOOPS. WE ARE REPLYING TOO SOON AND TOO LATE.

I still think of a cake made of sugar and cheddar cheese, as that's what I was convinced one was when I was a child. I didn't eat one for the longest time as a result.

I've not heard of the alternate cheesecake, either. For some reason, Mimi's description made me think of a custard slice, only without custard. And now I really want a custard slice.

I need to go out in a bit. Visit bakery or no visit bakery? Hmm...

/PeterKaye

Cheesecake is dangerous, because I can eat it non-stop if you let me. I generally have to avoid it. I do however hate it when it has a ginger biscuit base. Ugh.

And it's a good thing the deadline has passed for changes to my Sainsbury's order this week.

Yes, I was asking exactly that, RevOwen

I wanted to know if anyone knew of or remembered the pastry ones

I am now tempted to make cheesecake. I wonder if the ingredients are expensive. I'll think about it next week when all the brownie cake has gone.

I may, but not by name. In fact, I don't know what any pastries are called, I just tend to point at them.

@comical - Cheesecake is dirt cheap to make and easy. (Some recipes, at least)

Quoting this because I think one day we may need to know what Comical's weakness is.

Indeed - there is no excuse for this.

Ginger biscuits > cheesecake

I like ginger biscuits with a glass of milk. Can't imagine them in a cheesecake, though.

Never heard or seen your alt cheescake Mimi, I love the proper one like in the picture.

I may have to buy a pastry cheescake on Monday, take photos and do a taste test.

I keep meaning to make or buy a chocolate cake with chili.

It's supposed to be zomgz.

Chocolate and chili are wildly touted as a taste combination extraveganza, but the times I've used them together I've never been impressed.

Oooh, do so!

But... but... it's lovely. Your mouth is broken.

don't let sinisteragent see this topic.



he's obsessed.


i haven't had a cheesecake since I turned vegan in February. I should really get off my ass and make a vegan one because I miss them like woah, but...

Or get over the vegan thing, that would work just as well.

Can someone please invent a printer so that I can print the image from the first post and end up with a real cheesecake? Thanks.

Ok, there's far more useful applications for such a printer but I quite fancy some cheesecake right now.

I was vegetarian for ten years. Veganism is pointless - you'll eat plenty of spiders every year, statistically anyway.

Are you not any more?

I'm tying to think of one, but none spring to mind.

Mmmmm. Cheesecake.

Nope. Coincidentally almost exactly ten years after I started, my girlfriend was making a pizza with chicken on it, which smelled good. I thought 'Why did I stop eating meat?' and of the reasons I could remember, none of them stood up to my terrifying, Shockwave-esque scrutiny. So now I eat it again. And she's turned veggie. The bitch.

Trufax: bacon does NOT smell delicious and tempting and yummy, it smells fucking rank. Until you start eating it again, and your senses reacclimate. Mmm... bacon...

Oh god, oh god. You monsters.

I'm not supposed to hae cheesecake. It makes me ... go strange. But it's so very, very wonderful.

Ooohhhh - I FIND THIS!

Usually, I enjoy the small of different foods, but I know when I give up any type of food (at the moment I am eating no meat or dairy products - I cannot remember why...) they just stink horribly. I made my nan a cup of tea the other day and adding the milk didn't quite make me retch, but was quite close.

Japanese people think that westerners smell of sour milk, I guess we are all so used to it that we cannot detect it.

I propose we lock sinister agent and ComicalGnomes in a room together with a single slice of cheesecake and see what happens.
If we get bored we can throw Dimrill in there too as that's bound to liven things up.

I do not like touching milk. I am wierd.

Why would you want to touch milk?

Pouring and drinking are the norm.

Interesting. My still vegetarian after 20 years brother-in-law finds the exact opposite - he loves the smell of it, and says it's the one thing he'd go meaty again for were he to suddenly lose all his morals and become like us disgusting animal killers again.

Everyone's olfactory senses are different though, I suppose.

Your brother-in-law works in a lolfactory, that must be awesome.

All those acronyms, though. Brrr.

He actually works for a bona fide evil genius.

It makes cleaning up used milk+cereal bowls a bit of a challenge, and drinking it quite impossible, what with it having to touch your mouth and all (quite aside from the way it tastes udderly rank)

So you pour it on cereal, but you can't drink or touch it?

No, I have dry cereal (hence why I turn off my microphone while munching ceral over live). But oft times I have to deal with other peoples used cereal bowls.

Just get yourself one of those DIY ink refill kits and refill your cartridges with cheesecake ingredients. Also use paper plates instead of plain A4 paper. Remember to print on best quality else it'll taste funny.

Damningly, they're not. Vanilla essence, mascarpone (or any full fat cream cheese), eggs, caster sugar, and digestive biscuits. It's quite easy to make, too, it just takes ages to be ready. Several Beteors (pronounced as in "meteors", natch) have lovely recipes for it. My own is locked in a dark, dangerous place to prevent another Incident.

Watch this space then sinister, Cheesecake next week it is!

Better.