🍓Mini Haul & Small Cheesecake Batch 🍓

Hey lovelies! ⭐ I hope y'all are enjoying this week so far 💖 After last month's minor foot surgery, I was taken to my local discount department store as a treat to "just browse" and ended up taking home new ovenware and other supplies at a great sale price with additional discounts which was lovely! 🥳🎉 Nothing better than a fabulous deal!! ✌😎 I'm slowly building my bakeware collection which is really exciting! And the cherry on top is that these items are Valentine's Day themed! 💗

 Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays and one of the best things about it is the pink and red heart-shaped merchandise! It's cute and so much fun 💘

This week I baked a cheesecake with a strawberry jelly topping! ✨ I've already baked a cheesecake once before about three weeks ago for my papá's birthday but it was only eighty-six percent successful. I know I can't master a dessert on the first try but it was still disappointing that my base was too hard. After reading the comments on a baking forum I realized that the brand of biscuits I used sealed my downfall so this time I'm definitely more prepared. I wanted to make this cheesecake more of a challenge by choosing to add a jelly top instead of a strawberry purée with whipped cream like I did late time. And of course, me being me, I decided to do so after I had already baked the base which resulted in this week's baking lesson: a proper gameplan is kind of necessary or whatever >_>

My first homemade lemon cheesecake with a strawberry topping accompanied by homespun whipped cream.

In my first attempt, I used Preppy Kitchen's strawberry cheesecake recipe and added ¼ cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice to the filling. I followed the measurements precisely as John directed and I ended up with wayyyy too much cheesecake filling. This time I'll be following the measurements provided by Sally's Baking Addiction for this cheesecake so I don't have to resort to making cheesecake cupcakes like I did the first time. I can't spoil my papá too much 😤

The cheesecake filling overflowed a little 😔

Peek-a-boo! Everything was fine until I took the cheesecake out of the fridge and saw how the strawberries floated a little during the cooling process and they ended up not being fully immersed in it once it was set. Maybe this is what is supposed to happen and had I chosen a taller pan it wouldn't have been an issue at all? 

Buen provecho! ⭐

This was so much fun to make!🌸 I'm bummed out that the strawberries on the top weren't fully in the jelly so the cheesecake didn't turn out as beautiful as I wanted but at the same time it's not like I had a cohesive plan to begin with. At least it was yummy! ⭐ Thank you all again for taking the time to read my silly little baking adventure. I hope you all enjoyed a nice treat as well 💕 I'll catch y'all next time!! ✌💗