I'm baking cheesecake right now! I'm going with friends to a cabin for the weekend, and I always feel like a bad guest if I don't bring something- the problem is, my springform is smaller than normal, so I have to make 2, which is going to take forever- - but I love making cheesecake. Smushing grahamcrackers is always fun!
I bake cheesecakes, all the time. Recently, I stopped making them in a springform pan, and using graham cracker for the crust. I now buy Keebler's Shortbread crusts. Everybody thinks they are better. Far easier and they ARE better. Try it. Just make your usual filling, and fill the crusts. Perfect.
You really like them better? I just always loved the homemade crusts- but next time, maybe i'll go for store-bought- it it's easy and tasty, I see no reason to get graham cracker crumbs and butter stuck all over me!
It's not so much that it is store bought vs. homemade. It's shortbread vs. graham cracker. Shortbread beats graham! The Keebler crust are really good. I've never baked anything that wasn't from sractch, but I'm all for ease, when I find something just as good.
Jose, that reminds me of my Hungarian grandmother's ultimate Poppy Seed Loaf--no icing, of course, that would be sacrilege. She also made the perfect strudel (apple, pumpkin, blueberry, cheese) with phyllo dough. Sort of a Mitteleuropa version of Greek kopita.
But, Jose you forgot to give us the address and the time of the Open House! I'm standing here with an Amtrak ticket in one hand and a fork in the other.