White Chocolate Cheesecake

This is my white chocolate cheesecake.

Cheesecake is believed to have originated in ancient Greece. History has the first recorded mention of cheesecake, as being served to the athletes during the first Olympic Games held in 776 B.C. However, cheese making can be traced back as far as 2,000 B.C., anthropologists have found cheese molds dating back to that period. The Romans spread cheesecake from Greece to across Europe. Centuries later cheesecake appeared in America, the recipes brought over by immigrants. In 1872, cream cheese was invented by American dairymen, who were trying to recreate the French cheese, Neufchâtel. James L. Kraft invented pasteurized cheese in 1912, and that lead to the development of pasteurized Philadelphia cream cheese, the most popular cheese used for making cheesecake today.

This is the one our stand-in instructor, Chef Ken O'Neil, made. He was one of chef Jakes students and was so inspired by the class that he decided to bake cakes for a living. He also teaches the evening class (3pm -10 pm).







Chef Ken made this undecorated cheesecake. It is New York style. He was demonstrating crusts so this one has a crust. Typical NY style cheesecakes do not have a crust. A crust is formed by the baking technique.