Cheesecake Deco!!

If, like me, you have 0% art in you (because God decided it was better to throw all those good genes to your sister), and you want to decorate a cheesecake, FOLLOW ME!!

If you CAN make BEAUTIFUL creations with your food, just ignore the rest of the post, move on and lets pretend that this never happened!

So for the follower :) I did some cheesecakes two days ago and decided I'd try making it "pretty", I just used my always to go to cheesecake recipe, and did two normal size ones.

To make sure you can take your cake out of the pan without loosing its shape, just line the inside of your pie pan with some aluminium foil and it wont get stuck, it works great. For the first one I jut put some Cherry pie filling on top.

For the second one I went out of my comfort zone and decided to make the toping (jam), I bought some beautiful fresh strawberries :)

The recipe is really simple:

2 pounds fresh strawberries
4 cups white sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice

Crush strawberries until you have 4 cups of mashed berry. Mix together the strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice. Stir over low heat until the sugar is dissolved. Increase heat to high, and bring the mixture to a full boil. Boil, stirring often, until the mixture reaches a jam consistency.

I saved the top part (with the leaves), to use as deco, I also sliced a couple of them to use as deco too :)

This is how it turned out:Bayo though it was cute, not like he has a choice, lol, but some other people said the same, you can have a way better looking result than this one, so again, this is for the non artsy ones :)
You can also do the same for the Mini Cheesecakes, in my opinion they look even better!!