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Cheesecake and Baking Day

Cheesecake:

First let me say that I love cheesecake, cheap cheesecake, expensive cheesecake, store bought cheesecake, home made cheesecake. I love cheesecake from a mix, deep fried cheesecake (yes deep fried cheesecake), even cafeteria cheesecake with canned pie filling topping. Yes, I love cheesecake! And this one is the best one I have had in a long time!

Baking Day:

I did have a few misadventures on baking day. First, I put the pound cake in the cold oven and turned the oven on as per the recipe. As it heated up smoke started coming from the oven vent. This is the same oven in which I had baked greasy meatloaf a few days before. I had to open the oven door occasionally to let the smoke escape but it did not seem to effect the taste of the cake.

Next I mixed up the cheesecake and put it in the oven. Smoke once again came from the vent. You see, I have a really cheap spring-form pan that I haven't used in quite some time. I had forgotten that it leaks and that I needed to wrap it with aluminum foil when I use it. I took the cheesecake out, wrapped the pan, cleaned up the butter mess the best I could and put the cheesecake back in the oven. My baking time was way off after all that. Luckily, Tanya included the finished temperature of the cheesecake with her recipe so I was able to tell when it was done.

Lastly I baked the bread. There was not any smoking to speak of by the time I got the bread in to bake. I did have to open the outside doors to air out the house a couple of times during the baking marathon but at least the food did not end up smoke flavored.

Now I need to clean the oven!