This post is part of Cheesecake Week! Let us know what you think! Stay tuned for other wonderfulness related to the conjunction of two awesome things: cheese and cakes.

I know that a lot of food bloggers and other people who love to cook and bake think back on memories of their mother’s prowess in the kitchen and know where their passion came from. My mom…not so much a baker. Not that she was a bad cook, she was great, and putting up with three kids whose tastes were always mutually exclusive is no mean task. But definitely not the baker I’ve grown up to be. However, she has one recipe, written out on an index card with stains from what I hope is spilled vanilla, and with inexplicable long division on the back of it, that isn’t from a cookbook or a label. It’s for cheesecake. It’s a sour cream cheesecake, this particular version has the sour cream in a separate layer on top of the cream cheese, but it also works if you mix it all together. Not that I’ve ever had a problem with not actually reading the whole recipe and just barreling ahead with what I assume the recipe says. *cough*

This is a good one for entertaining, as it should be made in advance, so it takes some of the madness out of the day of. Clearly, I made it for a Memorial Day weekend barbeque, hence all the mess around it. Including my mom’s recipe for baked beans, but that’s a recipe for another day! Continue Reading