{"id":3060,"date":"2017-11-21T08:30:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2017-11-20T23:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T04:09:06","slug":"pride-goes-before-a-soggy-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/pride-goes-before-a-soggy-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride goes before a soggy middle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something about fall makes me want to pull out allllllllllll the recipes for baked things. \u00a0Starting in early September I get hit by the apple and pear craze. \u00a0November means all things pumpkin and we’re about to hit December which means CRANBERRIES.<\/p>\n

I think it goes without saying by now that the kitchen is not exactly my forte. \u00a0Well, even I was surprised when my pumpkin cheesecake developed cracks the size of the Grand Canyon. \u00a0For real. \u00a0I was planning to take it to carry in at church the next day. \u00a0I didn’t feel like making more food so the next morning I whipped up some heavy whipping cream, added a little cream cheese to stabilize it, and just before lunch I coated that baby so well you couldn’t see a thing …. until people started cutting it.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t about to try again for a long time. \u00a0Then my friend who is the queen of cheesecakes told me to bake it low and slow. \u00a0So I did. \u00a0I followed directions to a t. \u00a0Beating when \u00a0I was supposed to beat and barely folding in the eggs at the end. \u00a0I slid that baby into the oven with more care than I handled my newborns and gently eased the door shut. \u00a0225. \u00a0Two hours. \u00a0Turn off the oven. \u00a0Don’t crack the oven until an hour later.<\/p>\n

When I obediently opened the door as the timer beeped, I’m pretty sure my pride added an inch to my head. \u00a0You just got your doctorate? \u00a0I baked a perfect cheesecake!<\/p>\n

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I garnished it with sheer joy, took pictures of it, and happily took it along to David’s parents’ house that night for dinner.<\/p>\n

You can see just how \u00a0well that worked out. {Insert all the rolls eyes emoticons} \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Another friend said the low and slow never works for her. \u00a0Bake at 400 works for her sister. \u00a0Water bath works for her. \u00a0Low and slow works for another sister. \u00a0So what’s YOUR secret???? \u00a0I feel like these cheesecakes are holding out on me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something about fall makes me want to pull out allllllllllll the recipes for baked things. \u00a0Starting in early September I get hit by the apple and pear craze. \u00a0November means… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39ynQ-Nm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}