Celebrating National Cheesecake Day With a Famous Slice
Third-generation cheesecake maker Alan Rosen shares baking tips.
-- Cheesecakes are finicky creatures. Bake them for not long enough, and you’re stuck with unset cake. Too long and you’re bound to have cracks.
Good thing we were able to catch third-generation Junior’s cheesecake maker Alan Rosen just in time for National Cheesecake Day. He shared his top tips for the perfect cheesecake, plus the famous Junior’s original recipe so you can recreate the cake at home. (Or, if you’re feeling a little lazy, just order one off their website with discount code CHEESECAKEDAY14 for a $5 discount.)
“My grandfather opened Junior’s in 1950 in downtown Brooklyn with my father and my uncle, and he said, ‘If we’re going to be a great restaurant in New York, we have to have great cheesecake,’” Rosen told ABC News. “So he went around tasting and testing different cheesecakes and experimented with his baker, Eigle Peterson. Finally they hit upon a formula that they were happy with, and that’s the same recipe we use today.”
Read on for Rosen’s baking advice, plus a few other deals to sweeten your cheesecake celebration.
Click here for the Junior’s Original New York Cheesecake Recipe.
If you’re a huge Cheesecake Factory fan, you can also head there for half off all slices, or order an entire cake from Harry and David using the code CAKES for a flat shipping rate.