Super-Simple Cheesecake

by Ivete on March 2, 2010

in Desserts

I happened to be in Brazil for my dad’s birthday and I wanted to make him a cake, but there was one big problem: he doesn’t really like cake. I wracked my brain for a cake that he’d actually get excited to eat and that’s when I thought of cheesecake, which literally doesn’t exist in Brazil. When I proposed it to my dad his eyes widened and his face lit right up! I knew I’d come up with the perfect cake for the occasion. Only problem was, I’d never made one before . . . and for some reason I was under the impression that cheesecake is hard to make. Add that to using foreign ingredients, in the metric system, in someone else’s kitchen, and you’ll probably get how nervous I was to try this. But I’m here to tell you it was totally easy and incredibly delicious! Read on for the recipe for this Simple Cheesecake and make it next time you want to wow someone.

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