AIBU to ask for opinions on the most important topic of today - cheesecake?

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AIBU to think cheesecake is the best dessert ever invented, bar none? We are having friends over tonight and there's a white chocolate and stem ginger cheesecake in the oven. It smells divine.

Don't think I've ever had a cheesecake I didn't love. Always my default choice if it's on a restaurant menu. Went through a phase of loving Bailey's cheesecake too.

AIBU to think if you don't love cheesecake there's something wrong with you??

YANBU. When I first tasted cheesecake my tastebuds literally went WHY HASN’T THIS BEEN ON THE MENU THE WHOLE TIME

Cheesecake is wonderful. So many varieties. So many toppings.

God no, it’s such a can’t be fucked dessert. Unless it’s a Basque burnt cheesecake, which are divine.

You know you’ve got a pastry chef that’s given up when the dessert menu is cheesecake, creme brûlée, chocolate fondat and a token vegan sorbet.

I'm so glad you're baking your cheesecake, OP.

I love New York and other baked cheesecakes, but the whipped up glop spread over crushed biscuit crumbs is not cheesecake as I know it and it has no appeal whatsoever for me.

I have made non baked cheesecakes in the past. They're ok, prefer the baked ones though.

Really don’t like baked cheesecake , the texture is too grainy but love love love the fridge version

Tricky.....

I have had delicious cheesecakes, but most of the time I find them soooo disappointing. Sickly sweet, claggy....yes, Cheescake Factory San Francisco, I'm looking at you - your cheesecakes are the stuff of nightmares.

I went to a wedding once and dessert was advertised as a "cheese cake". It was a selection of cheeses arranged to look like cake. The disappointment.

Cheesecake is the ONLY dessert I can't resist.

I am not a dessert person at all. But cheeeeeesecaaaaaaake 😋

You are correct OP that cheesecake is the BEST dessert however YABU for saying the baked variety is best

I made a kinder chocolate cheesecake last night - 1/3 of it has gone already and there's only 3 of us in our household

I love the creamy bit of cheesecake but the base gives me the boke 🤢 I hate the two textures together and the biscuit gets stuck in my teeth.

Nigella's peanut butter cheesecake is absolute heaven.

YANBU! My second favourite is creme brûlée 😍

Love cheesecake, baked and none baked. This Christmas I'm doing a nutella one which is no bake, quick and easy which is perfect with all the other christmas stuff going on

My favourite ever was a baked white chocolate and orange one

Dp brought home a chocolate and salted caramel one that had been reduced in coop the other day. I don’t think I’ve ever loved him more

I have never made a baked cheesecake! My DP is obsessed with my fridge version of a white chocolate cheesecake.

Please could I have your recipe for the oven one for try for him?

It's from the bbc good food website - a Mary Berry one I think. Dead easy.

Love a cheesecake, it is my favourite desert, but not baked and no philidelpha allowed.

The baked variety was made by the devil.

However the normal set in the fridge cheesecake, us normal folk eat is great. Yesterday I made a Terry’s chocolate orange one, white chocolate it a favourite too, also made with lemon curd mixed in to the cream mix. Chocolate baileys makes a good one too

Thank you! I'll search for it :)

Oh man. Now I want cheesecake, badly!!

Non baked is definitely my favourite and I love it. Years ago Waitrose used to do a mix and match individual cheese cake which was amazing. You picked a pot with either ginger base and vanilla cheesecake, digestive base and vanilla cheesecake or chocolate biscuit base and vanilla cheesecake. Then little pots of topping that you scooped on - strawberry, chocolate or toffee.

Yum yum yum.

There is nothing better than a New York cheesecake. I feel like anything else doesn’t do it justice. You can’t mess with classic flavours and that rich, smooth, creamy but dense texture. Why have it any other way?