Home Baked Classic Cheesecake with Cupcake (My cat's name)

Mika
Oct 11, 2019
3 min read

Updated: Oct 12, 2019

Joking aside.. I baked together with Yu at our home kitchen. We literally bought all the ingredients at the supermarket and the mixing bowl ($6) at the dollar shop today which you can see on the top image.

We made our first non-bake cheesecake about a year ago at our previous apartment and failed miserably. We pretty much just followed the recipe online, mixed everything, put it to the fridge, and tada.. it fell apart. Tonight, we are making a revenge baked cheesecake part two!!!

I haven't wrote a blog for a while, so i decided to continue blogging to improve my writing skills.

Here are the super easy to follow cheesecake recipe i found online. It just took me a minute to look up on google. I was looking for something simple and easy to make.

https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/classic-cheesecake/

Ingredients

Graham Cracker Crust

1 1/2 cups (150g) graham cracker crumbs

5 Tablespoons (70g) unsalted butter, melted

1/4 cup (50g) granulated sugar

Cheesecake

four 8-ounce blocks (904g) full-fat cream cheese, softened to room temperature

1 cup (200g) granulated sugar

1 cup (240g) full-fat sour cream, at room temperature

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice

3 large eggs, at room temperature

Topping: I did not put any topping since i prefer plain and simple but you can check out some suggested topping on the link above.

While Yu was crashing the graham cracker to make the crust, I was preparing to mixed the cheesecake. By the time i finish opening four cream cheese packages, it is a lot of packaging! Yu was done crashing the graham cracker. So I rushed to take out the fry pan to heat the butter so we can mix it with the crust. It takes about an hour to prep the entire thing.

While we were waiting for the butter to melt, it took me for a while to crash and mixed the four cream cheese. We did not have the high-tech baking mixer so Yu had a better idea. He boiled hot water, pour it on the bowl, and on top of that we placed the cream cheese bowl and mixed it. It worked. The cream cheese got softer faster, so we added the rest of the ingredient - sugar, vanilla extract, lemon juice, eggs, and sour cream.

I poured the graham crust on each small aluminum cup (I bought the small cup on purpose so i won't over eat) and Yu used the peanut's crasher to level the crust. As you can see, I think we over mixed the cheesecake.. but oh well. It will taste the same.

After that, we poured the cheesecake one by one and level it. we didn't use any spoon to flaten the surface. Just as it is. We poured the boiling water into the pan and baked it for an hour for 350F.

After an hour, it will look brown on the surface. The surface color doesn't look even but it should be okay! Rest it for another hour on the oven while opening it slightly.

Cupcake seems to be more excited than me... I had to keep an eye on him since he might jump inside, grab the cheesecake and run off! Okay, bite not grab.. But you know what i mean.

You are probably thinking why my cat's name is cupcake. It's not because i love eating cupcake. When we adapted him two years ago when he was still three months old at the adoption center, he already had a name. The name was cute so i kept it. Unlike other kittens which was frightened to death, Cupcake was so playful when we first met. I heard tuxedo cat's are friendly and playful.