"Throw in a cheesecake and you've got a deal," she always said that, my mum. So when we wanted her to slow down, to take it easy, we came prepared. We gave her the reasons, we set out an easier life and she huffed, "Throw in a cheesecake and you've got a deal." When she saw it she knew we were serious, and she nodded, "I'll get the plates." That was that. We had a deal.
Cheesecake was our celebration cake of choice, kinda had the creamy feeling of an ice-cream cake yet with a more mellow sense of chill.
It was a New York cheesecake with all the pizzazz of Hollywood on top, a total east coast - west coast mash up, pitch perfect in our eyes.
The cheesecake had the clean taste of vanilla cream with fresh fruit on top, it was our kind of celebration cake to accompany a good bottle of wine.
The cheesecake had a peanut butter base and a filling that was so divinely chocolate one had to slow down the eating simply to savour it properly.