Cheesecake: Reviews

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Best traditional cheesecake

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Reviews call Junior's the best plain mail-order cheesecake, and it costs less than cheesecake from other purveyors. Tasters praise the rich texture and tangy flavor of this three-pound cake. It's firm outside and fairly… dense within, with an unusual sponge cake crust. The sponge-cake bottom stands up better to shipping than graham-cracker crusts, which can become soggy. That said, some reviewers feel that graham crackers are a better complement to cheesecake's creamy filling.

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Cook's Illustrated Magazine: Cook's Illustrated staff review nine cheesecakes, Junior's of Brooklyn Plain Cheesecake among them. Editors rate cheesecakes for ...

The Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal's tasting panel, which includes a hotel chef, samples five plain, traditional cheesecakes available by ...

SeriousEats.com: Levine lists seven "indisputably delicious" cheesecakes in this update to his 2004 New York Times cheesecake review. The popular ...

SeriousEats.com: Levine's top two mail-order cheesecakes are Junior's and Eileen's. If he had to choose, he'd go with Eileen's lighter version, ...

DavidRosengarten.com: David Rosengarten lists several of his favorite holiday treats, but we're not sure how large his sample size was. Junior's ...

Ask MetaFilter: A reader asks where he can find a great mail-order cheesecake, and 13 contributors chime in with suggestions. Junior's, Eileen's ...

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Elis Cheesecake Couture Cheesecakes

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If you're looking for a cheesecake that's out of the ordinary, reviewers recommend Eli's Cheesecake Couture Cheesecakes, which come in such unusual flavors as burnt-caramel flan and Saigon cinnamon chocolate. Like… Junior's, Eli's does not use graham crackers in the crust, favoring all-butter cookies instead. Reviews say that the Triple Fresh Cheese Cheesecake is a winning combination of ricotta, goat cheese, mascarpone and a refreshing swirl of lemon curd.

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The New York Times: Eli's Triple Fresh Cheese Cake and Burnt Caramel Cheesecake Flan win approval from a tough critic, Marian Burros, who's been ...

Cook's Illustrated Magazine: Cook's Illustrated editors review nine cheesecakes for this article, paying attention to flavor and texture. Although they do not ...

The Wall Street Journal: The tasting panel at The Wall Street Journal tests five plain cheesecakes that can be bought by mail order. Eli's comes in second ...

Ask MetaFilter: "Mail Order Cheesecake?" asks a reader at Ask MetaFilter, and 13 readers chime in with suggestions for cheesecakes that can be ...

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