C is for Cheese Cake

ABC Wednesday
January 25th, 2017
The letter is C, for Cheese Cake

Ginger Pear Cheese Cake

I have made this cheese cake, and it is delicious

but then I am a great lover of ginger!

If you are too, here is the recipe.....

You will need 

one and a quarter cups of crushed ginger cookies

A quarter cup of butter, melted

one can of pear halves, patted dry

three packages of cream cheese, softened

(250 g each)

three eggs

three quarters of a cup of sliced almonds, toasted.

Mix the cookie crumbs and the butter and press them into the bottom

of a springform pan

Arrange the pear halves over the crust

Beat the cream cheese and the sugar until well blended,

add the eggs, one at a time

mixing on low speed after each addition

Bake forty-five to fifty minutes in a 350 degree oven

(until the centre is almost set)

Run a knife around the rim of the pan to loosen the cake

then cool it completely.

Refrigerate the cake

and before you serve it

sprinkle it with almonds!

an aside.....

Those of you who go back a ways into the last century

might remember that pin-up girls

(ever popular with young men of that era)

were known as "cheesecake" in the slang vernacular.

Probably the most famous of all was the actress, Betty Grable

who was said to have the most beautiful legs in the world.

This was as far as I ever got in the world of "cheesecake"

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this great meme, and to

Melody who has offered

to continue it.