![]() Using hot water (not boiling), pour water into a 9 x 13 baking dish coming up about ½ inch.Pour cheesecake batter into your baking dish.Sift ½ Tablespoon flour into the mixture, Mix on medium-low working up to medium speed, until fully incorporated, about 1-2 minutes.Add two large eggs plus one large yolk, mix until evenly combined, 1-2 minutes.Kosher salt weighs less than regular table salt, so a 1:1 ratio conversion will not work, you’ll need more kosher salt than you would table salt. We made the swap to kosher salt a long time ago and I’m so glad we did! It’s so much more versatile, cleaner and less salty tasting, no additives, larger flaked, and dissolves evenly into dishes – baked or cooked. Or use unsalted butter and regular iodized table salt using about ½ teaspoon or so of table salt. Just know you will need to add more kosher salt to the recipe – starting with ½ teaspoon or so. You’re more than welcome to use unsalted butter if you prefer, or if it’s all you have. Since I use Kosher Salt and recommend it in my recipes, using salted butter evens out/balances the salt level I’m looking for in my cooking and baking. Ya know the old adage, don’t fix what’s not broken? Well that’s this. I know people think I’m crazy for doing this but it’s how I’ve done it forever, maybe I am a little crazy and I’m okay with that. Why Salted Butter instead of Unsalted Butter: If they need longer, flip them over and microwave in additional 6 second bursts I will use a plate, remove both packages of cream cheese from the foil and place them close to the outside of the plate. OR use instructions on the inside of the Philadelphia Cream Cheese packages to warm it in the microwave. Cream Cheese: Remove them from their paper packaging and allow to come up to room temp on the counter.As long as you see the egg yolk break and mix really well, it will turn out just fine. If you don’t care if they’re cold, just throw the eggs in the batter and mix well. If you forget to pull out eggs: add warm water to a bowl, gently drop eggs into the bowl of warm water for 5-7 minutes.We all forget to pull out butter, eggs, creams/milks, other ingredients before baking. This really helps to ensure ingredients are evenly mixed which leads to them being evenly baked. It’s great! Why Room Temperature is Important: No messing around with foil, finding water bath pans that fit a round springform. Using an 8×8 metal baking dish I can just plop it into an 9×13 baking dish, fill with an inch of hot water and stick it in the oven. It is so much easier to do a water bath with bars. I love making cheesecake bars instead of a round cheesecake. Compost the rest for no waste! Water Baths & Cheesecakes, it’s a whole thing: This recipes utilizes the zest and juice in three ways. If you want the lemon flavor to punch you in the face, fresh lemons are the way to go. so fluffy, light, and airy – this is like eating a lemon cloud These lemon cheesecake bars however, we ate the whole batch in a matter of days… luckily it’s a small batch. We don’t eat everything, we enjoy most everything in moderation – sometimes going overboard of course, but we exercise and share treats with as many people as we can. But they always make some sort of comment along the lines of, “how are you not heavier?! Everything Kelley bakes tastes so good, how do you not eat it all?” Super flattering to me of course, but that’s just it. He’ll often bring leftover treats into work or give them to his friends since we can’t always eat everything and we don’t need to eat everything. ![]() I don’t give compliments out unless I truly mean them and neither does he. I used to think that he was just blowing smoke up my a$$, saying nice things because that is what a good partner is supposed to do. A wide smile, toothy and thrilled spreads across my face when I see my fiance enjoy something that way. Not only is there satisfaction in baking something incredible, it’s watching someone (especially someone you love) eat something, moan and groan thoroughly enjoying what you just baked. There is just something about feeding other people.
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