Cheesecake Success

I am not very good at desserts. I usually only see the final item sitting on my plate so I don't know what it should like while I'm making it, or before it goes in the oven/sets so I don't have much confidence.

So one thing on my list was to make a cheesecake. I love cheesecake :) And I would like to have a dessert I can make and be sure that I can take it to peoples houses and it tastes ok.

This Friday was my turn to host the Girls Night so in a fit of organisation I kept Thursday night free for cheesecake making, safe in the knowledge that should disaster strike I could purchase a dessert on Friday after work.

My first problem was not reading the recipe correctly. For some reason I had it in my head you use cottage cheese in cheesecake. The one ingredient I couldn't find in Tesco was cottage cheese. So laden with bags I headed for M&S which did have it.

I made my biscuit base and went to make the mix. Which of course began "mix the ingredients with the cream cheese....." A quick google convinced me cottage cheese was not an alternative substitute so I headed back for Tesco which did of have cream cheese after all!

If I continue on my dessert making quest, I shall need to invest in some gadgets as my arm nearly fell off hand whisking the mix.

It all looked good coming out the oven and I was desperate to try some but managed to leave it intact before serving it to the girls. It could be that they were just being polite but everyone seemed to like it. I was pleasantly surprised. It tasted like actual cheesecake!

I asked the girls if they thought this counted as "having learnt to make cheesecake" and they said it did. I may well make it again soon to "defluke" it. And I think my dad and brother might like to eat it!

Right, now I'm off to google to see what I can do with my two pots of cottage cheese...