I baked a beautiful cheesecake today, the traditional New York dense kind, not my recently acquired favourite, the fluffy Basque cheesecake. (Fabulous flavour but keeps wanting to separate, GROAN.) I even smashed up chocolate wafers to make a chocolate crumb crust as the Christie cookie company has discontinued its bags of crumpled up Oreos.

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