Cheesecake

Cheesecake

Baked cheesecake topped with raspberries
Type	Various
Course	Dessert (predominantly) Savoury (eg. smoked salmon cheesecake)
Place of origin	Ancient Greece
Main ingredients	Cream cheese, sugar, pie crust (graham cracker crust, pastry, or sponge cake)
Cookbook: Cheesecake   Media: Cheesecake

Cheesecake is a dessert made with a soft fresh cheese (typically cottage cheese, cream cheese, quark or ricotta), eggs, and sugar. It may have a crust or base made from crushed cookies (or digestive biscuits), graham crackers, pastry, or sometimes sponge cake.^[1] Cheesecake may be baked or unbaked, and is usually refrigerated.

Vanilla, spices, lemon, chocolate, pumpkin, or other flavors may be added to the main cheese layer. Additional flavors and visual appeal may be added by topping the finished dessert with fruit, whipped cream, nuts, cookies, fruit sauce, chocolate syrup, or other ingredients.