How do you serve your cheesecake?

[Cathy]

How do you serve your cheesecake after you take the outside ring off the springform pan? Do you leave it on the flat round bottom? If you put it onto a pretty plate, how do you keep it from moving around on the plate? This is probably pretty basic for most of you, but I would like to know what you do to make it pretty when served? TIA

[Melman]

I've had those same questions. I've had decent results making sure the bottom is spritzed with oil (not lots..just enough where I can release it). I've used a couple of wide spatulas and managed to separate the bottom of the cheesecake from the bottom of the pan. Using a spatula on two different sides of the cake, I've been able to move it to a serving dish. You have to almost hold your breath and say a quick prayer for no major "crackage".

Hopefully, someone else wiill have a better way of doing this.

[Cathy]

Thanks for the suggestion, Melman. It does sound scary. There has to be an easy and clever way to do this, don't you think?

[Tina_B]

I thought I was the only one who used the double spatula technique. Works great though, but there must be a better way. I'd love to hear more suggestions.:p

[Ed]

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Hi,

Taking a Cheesecake off the bottom of a Spring Form pan is a ticklish operation all right, but with a little patience it can be done.


I just use a small spatula to make sure the crust is not stuck to the pan bottom then with a little pressure from my fingers the pan bottom comes off and I set the Cheese Cake on a nice flat plate.

I want it on a flat plate, not only because it looks nice to serve it that way but also for cutting it properly.

I think it was on this BB that the method came through on cutting a Cheesecake; anyway the suggestion was to use Dental floss.

The bottom of a Spring form pan is dished down a bit and it seems very difficult to cut the Cake with dental floss because of it -- you can't get a cut completely to the bottom of the cake, so when I put it on a raised flat cake serving dish I can get the cut completely to the bottom of the cake.

I usually cut a Cheesecake into 16 pieces so I use a few lengths of Dental floss in the process, (a clean strand cuts best, so I replace it after about 2 or 3 cuts.)

The problem I have is that I don't make Cheese Cakes often enough to stay in practice, so it's always trying to remember how I did it before.

I have taught my younest Daughter how to do it though, so I can always touch base with her, she has a better memory than I do and she has a young family so she makes things like this more often than I do too.

Ed

[Cathy]

Thanks, Ed! I'll have to give this a try.