Jessica Badalana

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1,485 appearances 10 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 5 Jun

Jessica Badalana’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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You know, you're starting with a cream cheese based cheesecake, right?

So you've got your softened cream cheese in there and you're beating it.

But there is a risk of overbeating.

You know what I mean?

I think the cracking is a real pain point for people.

Yes.

So let's talk about that.

So over whipping, getting too much air in it causes your cheesecake to rise in the oven.

And then, I mean, collapse is a strong word, but it settles, right?

That speaks to the custard element of it too, because you've got your cheese, you have your egg yolks.

And so I think gentleness is sort of the order of the day as far as like you get that nice sort of even cooking heat.

It's gentler than just, you know, throwing the oven, hoping for the best.

Okay.

But by then the water bath is like room temperature.

And then you would chill it.

Yes.

Okay, so this is a regional variation, right?

So it's a graham cracker crust, dense cream cheese custard, and then a layer of very lightly sweetened sour cream across the top.

I mean, so it was... That sounds delicious to me, and I think it could sort of...

You know how in the French tradition, it's like cheese followed by dessert, cheese as dessert.

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