Rich and Creamy Cheesecake

Art of Baking: The Science Behind Baking

December 28, 2024

Baking relying on a few fundamentals of principles. While there are thousand of recipes available, we can read them and understand them more easily if we know the fundamentals and understand what’s happen behind the scene of baking. How we manage to transform the raw ingredients such as butter, sugar, egg and flour to an edible food can be very complicated yet interesting.

Cheesecake: The Ancient Greece Dessert

December 16, 2024

Cheesecake is a popular dessert originating from ancient Greece. The earliest attested mention of a cheesecake is by the Greek physician Aegimus (5th century BCE), who wrote a book on the art of making cheesecakes (πλακουντοποιικόν σύγγραμμα—plakountopoiikon sungramma).* The main ingredients commonly founded in cheesecake are soft fresh cheese (typically cream cheese), eggs, and sugar.