| Sooner or later, everyone who's made a New York | | | | cookbooks that specify just in cheesecake. That's |
| cheesecake starts getting bored with the same old | | | | right. There are entire cookbooks devoted to |
| perfection every time. They start looking for | | | | cheesecake recipes, and you can bet there are at |
| variations, and frequently that's where they start to | | | | least two or three chocolate chip cheesecake recipes |
| go horribly wrong. The chocolate chip cheesecake | | | | in each one. |
| recipe is one of the first most people try, and it's | | | | Then, of course, there's the Internet. The greatest |
| one that can be fraught with peril if you don't choose | | | | information resource in the history of the world is |
| your recipe carefully. | | | | also the greatest tiger trap waiting to trap the |
| The problem is that there are so bloody many | | | | unwary cook and leave them with a bowl of useless |
| sources for recipes these days. Years ago, most | | | | ingredients that not only won't make a proper |
| people got their cheesecake recipes two ways: They | | | | cheesecake, but might likely release toxic fumes |
| either whipped out their trusty Betty Crocker | | | | from being mixed together. |
| cookbook or used the one there or, if they were | | | | Of course there are some great ones, too. But how |
| especially lucky, they got a time-tested recipe passed | | | | can you tell which is which? The best judge of a |
| down from grandma or an old aunt. | | | | chocolate chip cheesecake recipe is comparison. Do |
| Not so today. Go to your local bookstore and check | | | | the ingredients and process compare well to your |
| the cookbook section and you'll be staggered. Not | | | | classic New York recipe? They should, as you're not |
| only are there hundreds of "general" cookbooks that | | | | really making major changes to the structure. If the |
| will take you from soup to dessert, but also there | | | | steps and amounts match up fairly well, you're well |
| are specific cookbooks just for dessert. Got your | | | | on your way to cheesecake success. |
| mind wrapped around that? There are even also | | | | |