Serving Eggnog Cheesecake

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail, and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make this delicious creamy eggnog cheesecake. Now that your cheesecake has cooled it's almost time to serve it. First thing we have to do is remove the edge. Now if your cheesecake has cooled completely this shouldn't be too much of a problem. You want to take a flexible spatula, either silicon or the serving spatula which is still made out of silicon, and run it gently around the edge, because this is a non-stick pan you have to worry about scratching it so you don't want to use anything that is hard like a knife. Just going to gently run it around the edge, and then when you come all the way around you can remove the sides. And hopefully it won't be sticking at all. Then we have a lovely brown edging of the cheesecake. Now this one didn't have a crust which came up very high, you just wanted the crust mainly on the bottom. So you can see a little bit of the graham cracker crust down there, and because we have the nice edging on our spring form pan we didn't have to worry about leaking. Now, like I said earlier, the cracking on the top is perfectly normal, it's what's going to happen as the customer cools a bit and contracts. If you don't want to serve your cheesecake with cracks in it, as many people prefer not to, the easiest thing is just to put a topping on it. The simplest topping, just whip up some cream so you have a whip cream on top, you could also put some fruit on it. If you want to get really ambitious you could always make a sauce too, make an egg based sauce, you don't want to cook it so that it becomes a custard, but just like a nice vanilla cream sauce. And then when you go to slice it you just want to pour some of the sauce over it or your fruit, and put it on the plate, and then it's all ready to serve."