Cheesecakes are done in springform pans so that you can release the sides of the pan and slide it up and out from around the cake. I will be curious to see how your muffin tin idea works, but it just sounds like you won't be able to get the damn things _out_ after, and if you grease the sides the cheesecakes won't rise correctly. Or do I have the physics of this all wrong?
Hmmmm, right. What if they were made inside cupcake lining papers, though? (They might not unpeel gracefully, but I can provide forks.)
I am thinking experimentation will happen. I am also thinking of picking up some muffin tins at a thrift store, because I'll need more than one pan to chill them properly.
You could make little rings of parchment paper. I think cupcake lining papers with their little pleats would stick to the cheesecake. I think you should try it with little rings, since I guess that's how they used to do cheesecakes before there were springform pans? Hell, I dunno, but I'd love to see a photo of the results!
That would make me happier still, because then I could make them *any* size, and normal cupcakes would still be kind of big. Would need to make several dozen of whatever I do make. Two-inch anerable little cheesecakes AHOY. Thinking of topping them with pecan halves.
ETA: starting to think that the truly best thing would be to make them in a parchment-lined rectangular pan and just cut them into little squares. Which gets away from the mini-tart idea entirely, but sounds least likely to fail.
Oh great, that's just what I needtcepsaNovember 11 2008, 17:08:56 UTC
I'm in the most brutal course I think I have ever taken (I have a programming lab due in a week, several homework problems involving proofs of stability and asymptotic time bounds of various sort algorithms due tomorrow, and NP-complete related homework due for next week) and now you've got me wanting to bake a couple of pans of gingersnap strips. It's bad enough that I let myself get so distracted with the kefir last night, and that there's pumpkin soup in the queue for the next time that I have time to make something in the kitchen--now this!
(Seriously, though, those maple cheesecake tarts sound really shiny ^_^)
Re: Oh great, that's just what I needtcepsaNovember 11 2008, 19:03:26 UTC
~grin~ Pretty much, yeah. It's the only gingersnap recipe I've made so I don't know whether it's significantly different from gingersnap cookies, but you mix up the dough, roll it out into cylinders which flatten into ellipses as they bake, and then cut them crosswise when they're done.
And you've perfectly captured their effect with that last sentence ^_^
Not to worry - though I do wonder what would happen to your kitchen/apartment should you decide to carry out some of their recipe/experiments. Maybe they'll help counteract the gravity wells.
> Also, the autumnal nesting instinct seems to express itself as wanting to coo at kitties and never get up from my drafting table except to bake. Lots
Oh good, it's not just me. Somehow, implements of soupy doom (new stockpots, goth tupperware, and other horrors) have appeared in my kitchen. Also, a bolt of 20 yards of no-stripe black corduroy followed me home from discount fabric last night. I don't know how that happened...
My mom makes mini-cheescakes in cupcake pans and liners all the time. Turns-out you can drop a Vanilla Wafer-like cookie in the bottom as a quick and easy "crust."
That is a really good tip... I'll have to remember that. I tend to be an overachiever on making crusts from scratch, but this would be awfully convenient for not having to prebake.
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I am thinking experimentation will happen. I am also thinking of picking up some muffin tins at a thrift store, because I'll need more than one pan to chill them properly.
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ETA: starting to think that the truly best thing would be to make them in a parchment-lined rectangular pan and just cut them into little squares. Which gets away from the mini-tart idea entirely, but sounds least likely to fail.
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(Seriously, though, those maple cheesecake tarts sound really shiny ^_^)
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And you've perfectly captured their effect with that last sentence ^_^
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Oh good, it's not just me. Somehow, implements of soupy doom (new stockpots, goth tupperware, and other horrors) have appeared in my kitchen. Also, a bolt of 20 yards of no-stripe black corduroy followed me home from discount fabric last night. I don't know how that happened...
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It's one of her holiday standards. Works great.
-B.
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