"spamalicious" > wrote in message
news:5_yQd.55425$8a6.16961@trndny09...
> I made a brownie-bottomed peanut butter cheesecake today and I had all
> sorts of high hopes for it. It set beautifully in the oven, firmed up
> nicely in the fridge, looked gorgeous when I released it from the
> springform pan. However, when I went to cut it it was a mess! The
> brownie bottom didn't set at all except for the exterior and the
> cheesecake was goopy. I was crushed. It tasted like a big gloppy
> uncooked mess.
>
> I used an amalgam of 2 recipes - one for the brownie bottom, taken from
> a different cheesecake recipe (that was very successful, but involved a
> much thinner cheesecake portion than what I baked today) and one for the
> cheesecake portion (that didn't have a crust to it at all). I put the
> temp at something between what the brownie recipe called for and what
> the cheesecake recipe directed. I baked it in a water bath for longer
> than either recipe called for, thinking that would do the trick. A
> reviewer of the cheesecake recipe stated that they also made a brownie
> crust, but didn't mention changing anything else about the cheesecake
> recipe so I just assumed that s/he followed it as directed.
>
> I'm going to attempt to rebake it tomorrow. Bad idea? Should I just
> toss it? This is my first *real* cheesecake (the other one was more
> like a cheesecake-y square) so be gentle.
>

Toss it, eat it as-is, but don't bother trying to fix it.