Tea and Cookies — Earl Grey Cheesecake

Earl Grey tea cheesecake
It’s the end of the month which means it’s time for the Daring Bakers’ Challenge. If you don’t know about this group of intrepid, take-no-prisoners bakers, you can find out more at their brand new website, The Daring Kitchen.

The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge.

Now cheesecake and I don’t have the best history. You see, my father makes terrific cheesecake — huge, New York style cheesecake with a creamy filling and sour cream topping. He makes them every year at Christmas time for his students, and his fame as a cheesecake baker is widely acclaimed. I wouldn’t dare make traditional cheesecake for fear of being accused of trying to steal his thunder or worse, having my cheesecake come up terribly, terribly short. The one time I did try to make a cheesecake — pumpkin cheesecake, for Thanksgiving, it was roundly dismissed in favor of pumpkin pie.

So you see, I needed a little daring.

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12 responses to “Tea and Cookies — Earl Grey Cheesecake

  1. I’ve never thought of animal crackers for a crust – how ingenious! I really like the mini-cakes too. Thanks for sharing your twist on a classic!

  2. Earl Grey, I bet this was so good, and very pretty.

  3. Oh yum… I love the London Fog drink and that’s what this sounds like to me…. mmmmmm

  4. I saw this on the DB forum and must disagree with you. This cake is as pretty as they come! I’m sure the flavor is also delicious, but I really like the black specks. Great job on picking such a unique flavor.

  5. Welcome to Daring Bakers! What a lovely flavor for the cheesecake, and it does look gorgeous! 🙂

  6. This a wonderful cake!

    It looks absolutely delicious and very elegant!

  7. Oooh this sounds lovely! I’ve had chocolate earl grey sorbet before and loved that (along with anything tea flavored), so I can’t wait to try this!

  8. You made some fun changes…animal crackers (and who would have thought that the buffalo would face different direction!) and earl grey. Though I don’t like tea, I bet this is a great tea lovers cake.

  9. Rebecca Carroll

    I love cheesecake! This one sounds wonderful!

  10. Love how you used tea in this. I think the end result looks great.

  11. yumm.. loves earl grey!! DROOL!!

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