Why Don't We Have Cheesecake on Chanukah?

It does not fry in oil well 🙂

why don’t we have cheesecake then?

Who is stopping you? Have all the cheesecake you want.

The Wolf

I dont think that we can afford those extra calories TWICE in one year!

Mosh, I made a marble pareve “cheesecake” (my own recipe, btw) that NO ONE could believe was not milchig. It was THAT good! I ended up not making real cheesecake, because my oven died and I didn’t want to make the pareve toaster oven milchig. I promise you, had I not told everyone it was Tofutti, they would not have known. The following recipe was used to make two pies, one plain and one marble.

3 containers tofutti cream “cheese”

1/2 cup Tufutti pareve sour cream

1 Tbs. vanilla extract

1 tsp. lemon juice

4 eggs

1 cup sugar (I may have used an additional 1/4-1/2 cups)

2 graham cracker piecrusts

about 6 oz. chocolate chips melted and slightly cooled, but still stirrable. This will be added to the marble cheesecake batter. A can of any flavor fruit pie filling is used to top the second pie.

Mix everything but chocolate or pie filling together. Pour equal portions into each pie crust then pour the chocolate into one batter and swirl to marbleize. Bake at preheated 350 degrees until top is pale golden, but center is still jiggly. Cool in oven then refrigerate for several hours or overnight(I freeze it until the start of the meal, then take it out and leave it out until dessert time). This is so good.

Bake the plain pie until the top is pale golden and jiggly in the center. Let cool thoroughly, then top with fruit pie filling and refrigerate or freeze until needed.

oomis1105,

Thanks for that recipe. I printed it already and can’t wait to make it. 🙂

Oomis1105:- I promise you, had I not told everyone it was Tofutti, they would not have known.

Think before you promise; I am allergic to soya & tofutti, and my stomach would have ratted you within minutes of my having consumed your pareve cheesecake.

Besides, pareve cheesecake defeats the entire reason for having Dairy on Shovu’os.

I told you! there isn’t a possibly non existent minhag not to eat cheesecake on Chanuka because the gematriyah of Ugas G’vina is 549, which has nothing to do with Chanuka, besides when it does, which it generally never is, which may or may not be subject to debate.