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Let's...make...cheesecake...CHALLENGE!

  • Writer: Melanie
    Melanie
  • Jul 14, 2020
  • 2 min read

Melanie Underwood, founder of Nourish and Gather and author of Making Artisan Cheesecake, was featured on the Little Miss Party Planner blog discussing her cookbook.



I love to cook.  I said cook. Not bake. You know why? Because you have to really pay attention when you bake...and I have the attention span of a flea.


Back when I first moved to NYC I hired a chef as a gift for friends who just got married. I found this fabulous chef, Melanie Underwood, through the Institute of Culinary Education. Mel was such a wonderful cook and the gift was such a hit, my husband later hired her for me as a gift! Teach your wife to cook...CLEVER!


Mel came into my kitchen and taught me to make chimmichurri skirt steak, the best spinach dip ever, roast chicken and tons of other dishes that I consistently make time and time again.

A few months ago Mel told me she was coming out with a cheesecake cook book: Making Artisan Cheesecake. I was not surprised at all...and couldn't have been happier to hear this!


I immediately got myself a copy and dove in there.


But remember....I don't bake.


So you're seeing the pretty pictures that Abby took for me along my first cheesecake journey here (and when I say first I'm referring to cheesecake from scratch...because I am a pro at the recipe you can follow off a Philadelphia cream cheese package).


I tried the mini cheesecakes from Mel's cookbook and boy did they ever BOMB!  Why did they bomb you ask?  Well because I thought I could take the measurements into my own hands and not fully pay attention to the recipe Melanie so clearly wrote in her book...WRONG SERI! WRONG! You need to follow EXACTLY! I used too much peanut butter and too many peanuts (because I loveeeee peanuts) and guess what? The cheesecakes were too salty! And dense. Didn't work.  BOMB!


I don't give up though. I see where I went wrong and I am going to try this again. But this time...I'm inviting you to a cheesecake challenge.



 
 
 

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