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Summary: How to mix the cream cheese for making cheesecake; get expert tips on making homemade dessert recipes in this free cooking video.
Andrea Spano received her training in the culinary arts program of the New York Restaurant School, where she graduated with honors in 1986. She then opened “Steve & Andrea's...read more
"Hi here on behalf of Expert Village my name is Andrea Spano and I'm going to show you how to make several different flavored cheesecakes but one basic cheesecake recipe from my new book Not Just Desserts. We're going to start by creaming and beating our creaming cheese I have about 8 packages of 8 oz of cream cheese in about 3 lbs I added a little bit more to the basic recipe of 4 packages of 8 oz of cream cheese only for demonstration purposes. I had it soften at room temperature since yesterday so right now it's perfect nice and soft and I'm just going to slowly soften it up a little bit more, I'm going to be very careful not to whip the cream cheese because that'll force more air into the cream cheese and the cream cheese you don't want to do that. Cream cheese has a lot of air in it already and if you pump more into it what's going to happen is that it's going to explode and crack. "
eHow Article: Mixing Cream Cheese For Cheesecake