So, if you read my previous post on my cheesecake baking you’ll know that Cheesecake Mk-III, while really good, wasn’t quite the texture I was hoping for. Over the past couple weeks I made another, and brought it into work to get another critique from the engineer guinea pigs. Staff meetings really are much better with cheesecake. The verdict was that the texture, and absence of julienned spatula, was a marked improvement over Mk-I they had; I thought it was still not quite the smooth texture I wanted, but was very close.

Part of my goal was to master this cheesecake recipe so I could bake one for a good friend’s birthday cake; cheesecake is one of her favorites. After my co-workers critique of Mk-IV, I took the weekend to bake Mk-V to serve up for a birthday cake.

Well, last night, I served it up. Her compliment that it was “…quite possibly the best cheesecake that has ever existed” was very nice to hear.

I had a slice, too. I’d say it was as close to the texture-perfection as I could get.