Trial and Error...

Tonight I decided to try and make something I had never made before...CHEESECAKE!  Instead of being smart and going simple, like a no-bake cheesecake, I dove right into a true cheesecake.  I was thumbing through a recipe book I had bought from a local church when I came across a Caramel-Pecan Cheesecake.  I thought that sounded really good, but I didn't think I liked the recipe for it.  I did some research, found a couple of recipes, and then headed up to Mom and Dad's house so I could get Mom's opinion on the recipe.  We ended up looking up a couple of more recipes and then settled on a hybrid of a couple different ones.  This one was simple to make.  It took cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and eggs.  Our modified version included caramel and chocolate sauce and pecans.  I made one of them tonight so that I could do a trial run before making the one to take to Thanksgiving at Meema's.  I'm glad I did the test phase, because there is already a couple of things that I'm going to do differently when I made it again. 

I admit, it turned out tasting great and it looks nice too...