Yes, I did it, I have made a cheesecake, and I would like to give thanks to my brother, cousin sister, and aunty for their kind help during the preparation process. I know I should be asleep there abouts now, but feeling rather jubilated to the attempt to bake this cake. This cake had all the recipes for disaster, for one, I had to select from a few hundred (maybe thousands) of differing recipes for strawberry cheesecake, and possibly even less considering I had taken to liking the marble version. The recipe can be found here . They don't have any pictures alongside the recipes so I couldn't tell whether I had done it right by the time I finished.

The next issue of this cake was that I needed 'graham cracker crumbs'. I don't even know what that is so if anyone out here can enlighten me as to what is closely related that can be used I would be much appreciated. Next on the list is that I needed frozen strawberries (in syrup), but since I went to the shops and found fresh ones for $1.00 per punnet (and there were three left and I took two), I was pretty happy.

The smell that wafts from the light simmering of strawberries was just so enticing, and it being slowly becoming like syrup, it was almost heavenly. I'm not sure if you aren't aware of this, without an electric mixer it is pretty difficult to make a lot of things, this is where I found the most problems, I don't exactly have an electric mixer. I bought 3 for mum over the last 21 years and it seems like all of them have died, so I'm pretty stuck. Except when a multi-purpose blender is available, it's the next best thing, but it leaves tonnes of bubbles (not entirely a good thing). I did some swirls, so it has the marble effect, and also added decorations around the side of the cake with the extra strawberry syrup, then put it into the oven. About 40 minutes later, I open the oven, and the smell of the cake just makes me want to devour it straight away.

Now the cake is in the fridge, chilling. I want to share a piece of this cake with this special gal, just to let her know I placed all my heart trying to make something that would be fit for a princess. I dedicate this cake to this wonderful gal.

Pictures will be loaded into here as soon as I get a shot at this cake, maybe in a few hours time (say 8am WST, Perth), since it's already early morning. It's my first go at cheesecake so I do hope it tastes as good as the aroma .

*update* cake monster took a slice before I got to photograph it, okay, it was only my dad. Second, the cake stuck to the pan, oh so not good.

.:KrAkPoT:.