Customer Reviews

The Ultimate Cheesecake Cookbook

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I had high hopes when I bought this cookbook simply because it bills itself as THE ultimate cheesecake cookbook. Heck, I bought it without even browsing through it! It's easy enough to read: directions on how to make a perfect cheesecake, pointers to remember, etc. There are also sections for baked, non-baked and other people's favorite cheesecakes. The book's drawback is that it has NO PICTURES - not one (save for the one on the cover). For a cookbook especially, pictures are what urge and inspire the reader to try the recipe. Secondly, the recipes for the no-bake cheesecakes are (almost) the same as the baked ones. No fair! Do buy this book if you're just starting to make cheesecakes -the book will be a good guide. But if you're familiar with making cheesecakes, this book will only bore you with its lack of variety.

I love to make desserts, especially cheesecake but before I bought this book I had only attempted 1. Now I can't stop making them. I thought the book provides good directions and has a lot of helpful hints on the right and wrong of cheescake making. The only negative is that there are only so many recipes and those are limited. But on the flip side I think this book provides a good foundation for branching out to try your own recipes.

I listen to Joey Reynolds radio show out of Fresno (we live in the Sierras up north) and have heard him talk about cheescakse for months. And my family likes cheesecake, especially tofu and other lower fat types. Like Reviewer Lori Baltazar from Manila, Philippines it is surprising that a cook book lacks photos of what an item might at least look like.

Thus this isn't a cheesecake cookbook that I would recommend for anyone other than a cook who knows their way around a kitchen and has some major self confidence and has made cheescakes from other recipes from other books.

This book started a family cheesecake craze. With recipes like these in our kitchen, we'll never go back to the no-bake canned filling ones we were making before. We've loved every recipe we've tried, with the exception of the smoked salmon and dill cheesecake, which was just weird. We've made the chocolate mint cheesecake and the orange chocolate cheesecake over and over--we just can't get enough. The flavor and texture of these cheesecakes is better than anything you'll find at specialty restaurants like the Cheesecake Factory. There are no pictures, but I don't miss them. There's a huge variety of recipes, from the traditional cherry cheesecake to the Mandarin orange, chocolate surprise, and apricot almond. I think the recipes are well explained and easy to follow, and there are instructions for adapting the recipes to a different size pan etc. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone who has some basic cooking ability already and wants to learn to make the best cheesecake they or their friends have ever eaten.

Most of these recipes are not just unappealing...they are disgusting. A salmon cheesecake?..... Not what I would serve to guests. Not a single photograph between the covers. A lot of no skills no bake cheesecake, & muffins. Buy another book by another author.