As I have mentioned several times previously, we have hallway dinners in the student housing I live in. Basically all or most tenants of the same hallway gets together to eat, roughly once a week. Last semester, I was in a different hallway (having moved during the summer), and this hallway has themed dinners.
For example, the stuffed bell peppers I made a couple of weeks ago were for a Mexican-themed dinner.
This week, we had an American themed dinner. I immediately volunteered to make cheesecakes, for although I've made them numerous times in the past (21 to be exact!), I haven't made a cheesecake in a while. It was high time for me to get back on my cheesecake track.
These were plain vanilla cheesecakes, with a small crust made from crushed digestive-type cookies and some melted butter. I topped them with nectarine slices that I left to soak in a bit of slightly sweetened water syrup, and I added half a grape for color contrast.
As sour cream is not cheap, I opted for some Greek-style yogurt to sub in. It may have been part of the cause for a higher density of the cheesecake, which was not the usual smooth creaminess. That may also have been partially because I'm still not used to baking in the small toaster oven we have here, and may have overbaked it all a bit...
As I had leftover cheesecake filling, I put it all in a small springform pan to make the larger one.
