After months of searching, I finally found a cheesecake recipe that I had been searching for. I’m not really sure where this recipe came from. My mom said it was her recipe and my dad said it was his. I do remember that as a kid, Mommy always made it and after their divorce, Daddy would make it when we would visit him. Either way, this is my favorite cheesecake EVER.
I remember Mommy would make it for Thanksgiving and it would disappear in seconds. The extended family would devour it. One year, I got creative and cut myself a big hunk, then hid it under my bed so that I could enjoy it later (I was a kid and had no concept of food safety, LOL).
The original recipe had a graham cracker crust, but my parents never made it with one. And the cake ALWAYS used to have a giant crack in the middle. In both my parents’ versions, they hid the crack with Comstock cherry pie filling.
The recipe used to live in our silverware drawer on a grease-stained, folded piece of paper. I think my mom ended up with that copy, that she then gave to my sister who gave it to me on an index card. A few years ago, I packed up my kitchen to have it renovated and this index card disappeared into our storage POD. I recently found it as I was gathering recipes for the blog. I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate my blog launch than to make this cheesecake. So good!!!
