Mmmm, cheesecake

[superbadgirl]

Normally, I'm a topping-free kinda cheesecake gal. I believe the cake speaks for itself. This one spoke with chocolate and Irish cream. Mmmm.



You guys, I have never cracked a cheesecake before, let alone created a crater like that one! Holy smokes. I don't know if the problem was the different, persnickety oven or if it was that I chose to believe the lying liars out there who claimed if a person just sets a pan of boiling water on the rack directly under the cheesecake as it bakes, it's just the same as a bain-marie.

I do not believe that is true, as that was what I did this time. Oy to the vey. Disastah!

Fortunately, my secret Santa at work gifted me a giant Hershey's bar. I hate Hershey's as a rule. It tastes like sugary wax to me. I digress. Had I not had this chocolate bar, I could not have created Lac de Chocolat using milk chocolate, heavy and Irish cream.



First I did have to fiddle around to try to reduce the crack a bit. Basically had to press the cake bake together and then seal the top with water (turning the baked cheesecake into its own glue).


TGIF! And now the choice is: hit the Irish cream or crack open the bottle of Limoncello I got in the company gift exchange?