The best crust ever! Oh, and some pretty good cheesecake too.

So, Matt's birthday was the 3rd. 

Yep, I've been trying to find time to post this blog for over a week now. 

I'm too gosh darn busy.

 Anywho...along with the awesome t-shirts I got him, which he LOVED,

 I also offered to make him any dessert he wanted.

Any dessert. 

Yep, out of all the desserts in the world he could have picked from,

he chose a plain, New York Style Cheesecake.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE CHEESECAKE.

But, he said he wanted it plain. 

That is just no fun. 

So, determined to do something unique to it, I turned to the crust.

 If you ask me, the crust has the power to ruin a dessert.

Consider pie for example, to me a good piece of pie has a warm, flaky crust underneath it.

 And have you ever had ice cream with pie crust pieces in it? DE-LIC-IOUS.

 So why can't a graham cracker crust be held to such standards?

 Naturally I went to Pinterest and searched "best crust ever".

 This recipe was the first one I followed and I'm pretty pleased that I did.

I actually doubled the recipe because I prefer my cheesecake

to have crust going up the sides as well as underneath it. 

What you'll need: 

• 1.5 cups crushed graham crackers
• 1/4 cup milk powder
• 2 Tbsp sugar
• 1/2 stick of butter, melted
• 1/4 cup heavy cream

What you'll do:

1. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl and mix well. 
2. Whisk butter and cream together until smooth. 
3. Add wet ingredients to dry and mix until everything is evenly incorporated. 
4. Bake at 325 for ~13 minutes. Allow to cool while making the cheesecake you desire.

Baked and cooling.

My cheesecake got rave reviews by both Matt and his parents.

Although that could have been because it had 2.5 pounds of cream cheese in it...

You can visit here to get the recipe I followed. 

Although I believe New York Style is a standard recipe so if you Google'd it you would most likely be fine.

Tubing on his birthday!

Lauren