Got my Thanksgiving prep started today...anyone else into it? I almost escaped cooking this year until my younger son, who was supposed to be out of the country with work over the holiday but came down with bacterial pneumonia last week (seriously. it was not good) and could not travel, announced he and his current girlfriend would be coming in. So just 4 of us, but now all the things to prep.
I have taken on the Trellis Chocolate & Pumpkin cheesecake this year, which we will take to the neighbors' to share dessert. In years past I have done portions of this recipe, but this year I'm doing the whole thing. It is 4 recipes - chocolate cookies for the crust, pumpkin cheesecake, chocolate cheesecake, and chocolate ganache. It is in the cookbook Death by Chocolate written by Marcel Desaulniers, the chef at the Trellis in Williamsburg, VA, a restaurant I worked in during college in the mid-80's! A nice blogger published the recipe!
The first time I made this thing, my kids were young. We drove from DC to a ski resort in WV to meet up with my family for the holiday, and I had the cake between the front seats of the minivan. When we stopped at a rest stop, my younger son - maybe 6 at the time - came bounding forward from the back seat and stepped right on the cake. Needless to say, I was beside myself! One of my Christmas gifts that year was a hard-topped cake carrier...
The cheesecakes are in the oven. It smells heavenly.
(Day 3- pic of my finished product - I am always amazed by ganache and how easy it is to make and work with).
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