Calling All Cars

We are in some what of a cooking crisis here at the Seattle home office. Johanna decided to make a classic cheesecake for Christmas dessert. We've not had home made cheesecake for a couple years as we outsourced the task of cheesecake making to the Cheesecake Factory. I mean, its a factory...for making cheesecake.... How can the mom and pop home baker stand up to such industrialization?

In any event, we always used the same method for making cheesecake as we did for making chocolate chip cookies. IE, you flip over the package of Nestle's Tollhouse Chocolate Chips and follow the instructions. Only in this case it had been the Philadelphia Cream Cheese recipe on the back of the box.

Apparently, we've been saved from our own selves by the Kraft corporation. Which has saw fit to change the recipe to something "healthier". They basically removed a bunch of the fatty ingrediants in their recipe. They didn't reduce how much cream cheese you put in.... No they need you to keep buying that, but they reduced everything else. Last I checked, cream cheese is still pretty unhealthy. So, your left with a recipe that is neither healthy nor the tasty original. The limbo of cheesecake, if you will.

So, I thought that maybe one you might have tucked away an old school cheese cake recipe some where, might be willing to post it, and save Christmas (well, that's overly dramatic, but you get the idea).

Blake