I have gotten into many arguments over this one

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    1 year ago

    I lived in NYC for a few years and tried a wide range of cheesecakes both in restaurants and homemade by talented bakers. Good or bad what they all had in common was that plain was best, and flavored were always disappointing and unenjoyable.

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      1 year ago

      You’re always disappointing and unenjoyable!

      Sorry. Don’t know what came over me. Maybe it was thinking about how good key lime cheesecake is.

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      1 year ago

      What sort of flavors are we talking? What was it about them that you didn’t enjoy?

      All of the cheesecakes I make are “flavored” in some way, but I go out of my way to use real ingredients, not just “X flavoring.”

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        1 year ago

        Off the top of my head I can remember trying: chocolate, raspberry, cherry, peanut butter, coffee, salted caramel, coconut, red velvet, and yuzu. Disliked all of them because they all tasted like:
        [how good the base cheesecake is] - [how good a cake of this flavor in not cheesecake form would be]

        So basically the stronger the flavor the worse it’d be, even though I like all those flavors very much (hence having a list that long before figuring out I just don’t like flavored cheesecake)

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          1 year ago

          Sounds like the flavors were too strong, possibly using flavorants rather than (or in addition to) the real thing. Peanut butter cheesecake with an Oreo crust, for example, has an amazing but subtle flavor.

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      1 year ago

      Flavored is bad, but toppings can be good. Adulterating the actual body of the cheesecake is wrong. I do like some goopy cherries on top though, the tartness offsets the sweet, creaminess of the cheesecake.

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      1 year ago

      I mean I feel a similar way about pizza - you need just a plain slice with no toppings to truly judge its merit.