TWD-Low and Luscious Chocolate Cheesecake

This weeks selection for Tuesdays with Dorie is Low and Luscious Chocolate Cheesecake and it was chosen by The Tea Lady of Tea and Scones. WOW, is all I can say about this cheesecake. This is one great cheesecake. I also believe that it may be one of the easiest cheesecake recipes that I have ever made. Lets face it cheesecake can be fussy with water baths and wrapping in foil. This recipe has none of that. Just mix the few simple ingredients in the food processor and bake. It just couldn't be easier. Dorie says that the cream cheese mixture will look like white velvet. This gives the cheesecake a smooth as silk texture. Yummy.

My husband said that this is his new favorite cheesecake and it may be mine too. Thanks again Dorie and Tea Lady for this great recipe. Hope everyone is having a great holiday season.

TWD Espresso Cheesecake Brownies

Melissa of Life in a Peanut Shell chose Espresso Cheesecake Brownies for this weeks Tuesdays with Dorie. I love all of these flavors alone but I wasn't so sure about combining them together. I should never have doubted Dorie. These brownies are deliciously different. The flavors all blend together to make a creamy, chocolate treat. I also thought that the sour cream topping gave the brownies a nice finish. I served these at a family cookout and everyone came back for seconds.

Tall and Creamy Cheesecake

The final recipe for December’s Tuesday with Dorie is Tall and Creamy Cheesecake. It was chosen by Anne Strawberry and can be found on pages 235-237 of Baking From my home to yours. I can describe this cheesecake in one word, Delicious. I wasn’t all that excited about making this recipe but I’m really glad I did. It wasn’t that I don’t like cheesecake, because I do. I think that I just wasn’t in the mood for one more rich dessert and besides I have a perfectly good recipe for cheesecake that I have been using for years and I really didn’t need a new one. Let me say I was wrong on both counts.

I followed the basic recipe with a graham cracker crust. I used half cream and half sour cream. The taste was pure and very creamy. The texture was not as dense as the cheesecake I usually make but I think that I prefer it. The recipe takes a while to prepare with the mixing, baking, cooling and chilling but it was worth the effort. As for the calories, I don’t even want to think about it but I will be making this again.