The cheesecake that looks so wrong (but tastes so right)

I know, it's been a while.

Hence this dismal looking excuse for a cheesecake.

Yeah, it came out having a bit of a bad face day.

It was SUPPOSED to look a bit more like this…

So quite an epic fail on that front though really, as you can see!

Now, this beautiful slice was from a devilish cheesecake that was baked as a birthday treat for me by my good friend Lucy about 5 years ago. It was SO good. A chocolate brownie base, and vanilla cream cheese topping. Need I say more? Mmm…

(Woah, I just salivated at the memory of that.)

Anyway, Lucy shared the recipe with me, and I finally got around to trying it, as I was due to make a dessert to contribute to a lunch with my capoeira ladies.

The recipe was for 12 servings, but there was only going to be 5 of us. Now although I probably think that I could demolish more than one slice of cheesecake, I didn't want to risk giving my friends cheesecake overdose. So I decided to halve the recipe. Six servings then. Perfect.

It was all going well until I poured the brownie mixture into the tin - and realised that I completed overlooked the need to use a smaller tin.

Oops. Too late.

Oh well, I thought, a thin base is fine, I'm sure the cheesecake topping will still be a decent height, as it'll rise a little once baked...

WRONG. So wrong.

What made it even more tragic was the unwelcome appearance of those crater-looking spots. This was from the brownie randomly rising up in places, presumably to make its presence known.

The lack of height though was the most disappointing. Obviously if I had made it in a smaller tin, it would have looked more like an actual cheesecake.

But hey - throw some chocolate on it, and it suddenly didn't look so bad.

Best of all, it still tasted SO good, even if I do say so myself. I feel like I need to try this recipe out again though, just to try and get the look right...

Other cheesecake-related adventures here?