This last week Pioneer Woman posted a nummy looking Blackberry Cheesecake and since I trust her, I let Rick's family be my guinea pigs! Thanks guys! :)
Not quite sure what drove me to make this of all the yummy recipe's I saw this week, but I'm so glad I did. I decided to use blueberries since I'm not the hugest fan of blackberries with all those seeds in there. Anyhoodles. This cake was listed as easy, and she does not lie. It was SO simple. It retrospect, I am 99% sure I left out the vanilla- whoops! Still looks okay going into the oven...
The crust is interesting, because it's Nilla Wafers with Walnuts instead of graham crackers. I really liked the flavor and may just use less of it next time, the crust was a little thick for my taste. I was really hoping that I could be the magician who could make a non-cracking cheesecake, but alas, no. I had a giant whopping, San Andreas-style crack smack dab in the middle. I think it was because my oven is a little funky on the temperatures. Yeah, that sounds good. Either way, it was a fairly easy fix, I just poured the topping on it! I'm pretty sure it didn't get to cool as long as it should have, but I was on a time crunch-o-rama time! Once it had a chance to actually cool, we all tasted it and the verdict is- it's a hit!
I had to have Mike's family finish the rest so as to avoid adding more inches to the hips, but not before I got another piece of it myself :)
And now? It's all gone:
I think next time I would try subbing the cream cheese for low fat cream cheese and see if that makes a huge difference. Also? STRAWBERRIES! YUMMMM. Those would make an amazing addition to this cheesecake. Either way friends, please, for your own sake, make this one. You'll thank me (and Pioneer Woman) later.
I heard it was so yummy! I'm not a big cheesecake person though but it does look good! Maybe I should try it since Jared does like cheesecake. Thanks for sharing.
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