Cheesecake is a sweet dessert consisting of one or more layers. The main,
and thickest, layer consists of a mixture of a soft, fresh cheese
(typically cottage cheese, cream cheese or ricotta), eggs, and sugar.f
there is a bottom layer, it most often consists of a crust or base made
from crushed cookies, graham crackers, pastry, or sometimes sponge cake.
Cheesecake may be baked or unbaked.
The Basque cheesecake has no separate crust but, rather, develops its
crust through hard, high temperature baking. It is characterised by a
burnt, scorched top which conceals a soft, gooey filling of cream cheese,
sugar, eggs and cream which oozes like molten lava when cut.
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