{"id":12,"date":"2010-07-26T23:52:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T03:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eatcooklive.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-09-10T22:14:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T02:14:30","slug":"cheese-cake-souffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Cheese Cake Souffl\u00c3\u00a9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I was a little kid, before I can even remember, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had cheese cake for my birthday.\u00c2\u00a0 According to my mother, the story goes that around my third or fourth birthday (which is in July) she made a cheese cake for President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I liked it because I declared that I wanted to have cheese cake for my birthday.\u00c2\u00a0 Not believing me, my mom made a\u00c2\u00a0 nice chocolate cake.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure it was great, but that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to stop little me from throwing what I hear was an epic tantrum.\u00c2\u00a0 So cheese cake became my birthday tradition.<\/p>\n

This year, the girlfriend, Meg, offered to make a cheese cake.\u00c2\u00a0 We found a recipe in the Red Book (aka The America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Test Kitchen Cookbook).\u00c2\u00a0 The first step starts with cream cheese.\u00c2\u00a0 A lot of cream cheese.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure it was my work here that led us astray.\u00c2\u00a0 So apparently the Red Book told me that the two and a half pounds of cream cheese should be cut into nice 1-2 inch cubes before mixing with a hand mixer.\u00c2\u00a0 I missed that bit of guidance. \u00c2\u00a0Meg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s old electric hand mixer met not so creamy cream cheese and just couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t handle the caloric mass.\u00c2\u00a0 After about 60 seconds the right mixer thing (tong? prong? beater?) stopped working and fell out.<\/p>\n

Left with only a half a hand mixer things still seemed fine.\u00c2\u00a0 Slowly but surely, the dying mixer softened the cream cheese and united it with the rest of the ingredients (eggs, vanilla, etc.).\u00c2\u00a0 It actually reminded me a little of some of my favorite force improvisational cooking while cooking with friends back in Minnesota.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything got mixed and poured on top of the gram cracker crust in the spring pan and put in the oven.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But when we opened the oven after the necessary time we had a surprise:\u00c2\u00a0 cheese cake souffl\u00c3\u00a9!\u00c2\u00a0 The cake and popped up about two inches above the pan and was light and spongy to the touch (see picture).\u00c2\u00a0 As we double checked the recipe to see what we missed and the cake cooled it sank in, just like a cooling souffl\u00c3\u00a9.\u00c2\u00a0 Then it hit me, all of our extra beating from the gimpy mixer must have filled the batter with air.\u00c2\u00a0 Though Meg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pre-war oven might have played some role as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I just need to see if I can make a real souffl\u00c3\u00a9 when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying!<\/p>\n

All in all, the cake looked a little strange, but still tasted great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I was a little kid, before I can even remember, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had cheese cake for my birthday.\u00c2\u00a0 According to my mother, the story goes that around my third or fourth birthday (which is in July) she made a cheese cake for President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I liked it because I declared that I wanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","tag-cheese-cake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}