I just attempted to make cheesecake for the very first time…it’s nerve-wrecking I tell you!  Sue Anne and I have been choosing cheesecake recipes and the genius in me so happened to pick on the non-bake ones…because it’s…well, non-baked furthermore, the oven in my house is rather temperamental and I don’t want to mess with it.  If it’s an experiment, I wouldn’t mind being adventurous but it’s for someone’s birthday.  If it’s my birthday, it’s alright cos I don’t mind eating my own ‘masterpiece’.

So I did a simple lemon cheesecake pie.  The recipe was…simple.  Easy peasy, nothing extremely fancy except the cream cheese.  I even added gelatin so that the cheese mixture would set since some have commented that the mixture is rather runny.  I popped the pie crust and the cheese mixture into the fridge and wait for 8 hours.

IT DIDN’T FRIGGIN SET AFTER 8 HOURS!

Add lemon juice for the mixture to set they say…add lemon juice they say.  Why, Nanna’s favourite cheesecake recipe they say.*squints in frustration*

Not only that…Sam took my pie plate the other day and silly me didn’t check.  I was getting ready to make the cheesecake and TO MY HORROR, my cheesecake pie doesn’t have a pie plate to rest on!  NO PIE PLATE FOR THE CHEESECAKE PIE…AHHHHH!

Ok…no pie plate, compromise lor.  Springform pan would do…just that it might spill.  Gah, what the heck, I have no choice but to take the risk over cheese mixture dripping out  ><

Then ULTIMATE HORROR was when I took out the springform case…THE STRAWBERRY TOPPING splattered and well, I don’t need to say the rest.  There is still topping one the cake…it’s just that the sides just spilled out, it was just messy la!  I was cleaning up the kitchen and it does seem like a murder scene.  The colour of the topping does resemble blood.

Well, well…at least the people liked the cake.    It was all worth it.