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The Top 100 Coffee Recipes: A Cookbook for Coffee Lovers

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As a coffee lover, I just had to read this book. Mary Ward did a great job. Not only did she give some very tasty recipes but she gave good advise on serving coffee too. My favorite recipe in this book would have to be orange coffee. It was so good like many other recipes in this book.

I received this cookbook as a gift and couldn't wait to try the coffee cheesecake...two of my favorite things! Generally cheesecake recipes are (or should be) fairly straightforward. This recipe was ungodly involved and expensive and the result was something my teenage son wouldn't even eat. After some discussion, we all agreed that the 2 tablespoons of lemon zest is what killed it. The coffee and amaretto flavors were completely obscured by the lemon and the final product had an unpleasant taste.
It was a big waste of 6 eggs, heavy cream,2 packages of cream cheese, 16 oz. ricotta, buttermilk, amaretto,coffee and sugar!
You're better off using a basic cheesecake recipe and flavoring it with coffee and/or amaretto and omitting the lemon. The next recipe I try from this book won't require a big investment.
The book I received was the paperback version so perhaps the lemon zest amount given was a misprint. Skip it altogether.