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My sister-in-law, Halley, makes the best cheesecake I’ve ever tasted. It’s creamy, smooth, and never too sweet. For at least 15 years, she’s made cheesecake for countless family and holiday celebrations — in fact, I request it every year for my own birthday.
She achieves this velvety goodness through a technique called a water bath, which involves nesting the cheesecake’s springform pan in a larger baking pan filled with water to create steam that helps the cheesecake bake more evenly. The dilemma is keeping water from leaking into the cheesecake, which is why she was so excited to find the Easy Bath cheesecake wrap.
Easy Bath Cheesecake Wrap
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“The challenge is that you often use a springform pan for cheesecakes,” Halley says. “The gap between the base and sides is the perfect place for water to seep into the cake pan and ruin the cake.” She used to wrap tin foil around the base of her springform pan, and fiddled to no end only to end up with water seeping through the pan and into her cheesecake anyway. The Easy Bath cheesecake wrap’s silicone construction has been the simple solution to protecting her bakes, and her cheesecakes haven’t seen any seepage since.
This silicone cheesecake wrap comes in three sizes to fit a 7-inch, 9-inch, and 10-inch pan. It’s waterproof and oven-safe up to 475°F — you could even use it in a pressure cooker. The wrap’s fluted sides can easily accommodate the clasp of a springform pan, and it also has a fill line that indicates how much water should be poured into the bath for an ideal cheesecake baking environment. It’s easy to clean either by hand or in the dishwasher, and at $20, it’s an affordable alternative to buying rolls and rolls of aluminum foil.
“I love making cheesecakes, but they can be notoriously tricky,” Halley says. She explains that you could do everything right during the preparation only to ruin the cake during the bake, when it can crack or bake unevenly. And while cracks don’t always affect taste, “it can be a disappointment and ruin the aesthetics. For the perfectionist, I found the cheesecake wrap to be really useful.”
For the past five years, Halley has turned out beautifully smooth cheesecakes with the help of her cheesecake wrap. She’s never worried about it ripping thanks to its durability, plus, she loves that it’s a sustainable way to wrap the pan since she doesn’t have to go through feet of tin foil for each bake.
If you’ve been chasing perfect cheesecake for years, the Easy Bath cheesecake wrap is your answer to bakery-level cheesecake that’s smooth and creamy throughout. Grab it now for $20 and say goodbye to wrestling with your tin foil.
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