cheesecake question

ilovechocolate · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 50 Location: long island

I'm confused a bit about the gluten part in cheesecake. Is it just the graham cracker base? I usually really make it but want to watch out for it if it's a dessert option.

ilovechocolate · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 50 Location: long island

I'm confused a bit about the gluten part in cheesecake. Is it just the graham cracker base? I really don't make it but want to watch out for it if it's a dessert option.

aklap · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 8795 Location: WI, USA

As I understand...sometimes flour can be added to the cheesecake part.

Even if you knew the "cake" part was GF, you don't want to eat it, it's contaminated.
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krisiw · Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Posts: 104 Location: Colorado

As far as I know there are several ways to make cheesecake. Some have flour in them, but the simplest cheesecakes don't. So as long as you made yourself a gf crust, you could make a gf cheesecake. If dairy doesn't bother you, it should be fine.

ilovechocolate · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 50 Location: long island

thanks

It's been awhile since I've actually looked at a cheesecake recipe and thought that usually there isn't flour...then again every recipe can be different I guess.

Every Christmas a close family friend makes many, many different types of cookies. She bakes for weeks, puts a nice variety in a shirt box for whomever she's giving them to, and they are just the most fabulous cookies ever!! We wait for them every year. Crying or Very sad

This year will be the first I can't indulge! They are just amazing cookies. We always tell her she should sell them.
Well I've got a lot of experimenting to do in the kitchen anyway and Christmas cookies (and cheesecake!) will be added to the list Smile

ostrich · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 4294 Location: Nebraska

Could you work with the woman, help her make some cookies you can enjoy?
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ilovechocolate · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 50 Location: long island

funny story, Os...
when I was little I was at her house and she was starting her baking. I wanted to help.
We were in the kitchen for a couple hours or so and she's making all her different types of chocolate, many which include chocolate. WELL, the chocolate smell was SO overwhelming that after trying to just work through this intense baking environment, I told her I was just going to rest for a minute in the living room. I was knocked out for hours...she found it so funny! I guess just being so young and submerged in this overdose of a chocolate fantasy it was so overwhelming that it was almost making me nauseous!! haha. That was the first, last, and only time I volunteered to help her out. LOL. At least I wasn't totally traumatized and could still eat the cookies later on Very Happy

ilovechocolate · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 50 Location: long island

*typo*.....oops, should be:

"We were in the kitchen for a couple hours or so and she's making all her different types of COOKIES, many which include chocolate......."

krisiw · Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Posts: 104 Location: Colorado

You know it seems weird that there could be such a thing as too much chocolate but I have heard that people who work in chocolate factories never want to eat chocolate again. How sad.

Maybe you could send your friend that flourless chocolate cookie recipe in the cookies section of the recipe board.

nancw · Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 910 Location: Denver, CO

Dan · Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 64 Location: OKC

Usually this is cheesecake part of the cake is GF. Even if you find a recipe that isn't, substituting about 1/2 with cornstarch should be about right. A real easy crust use arrowroot cookies, crush them and mix with melted butter and bake just like a graham cracker crust.

ostrich · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 4294 Location: Nebraska

NorthernElf · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:05 am Post subject:

I just made a cheesecake the other day - I used Kinnikinnick graham cracker style crumbs for the crust - add a little butter, a little sugar and press it in the (glass) pan. The kind I made was one you chilled, not baked. It worked well.

I have used the crumbs for baked cheesecake as well - tasted fine but the crust is a bit soggier...but it'll do for me ! Wink