cheesecake
Americannoun
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Also cheese cake a cake having a firm custardlike texture, made with cream cheese, cottage cheese, or both, and sometimes topped with a jamlike fruit mixture.
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Also called leg art. Informal. photographs featuring scantily clothed attractive women.
noun
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a rich tart with a biscuit base, filled with a mixture of cream cheese, cream, sugar, and often sultanas, sometimes having a fruit topping
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slang women displayed for their sex appeal, as in photographs in magazines, newspapers, or films Compare beefcake
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Etymology
Origin of cheesecake
1400–50; 1930–35, cheesecake for def. 2; late Middle English chese kake; see cheese 1, cake
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They left too full to eat any cheesecake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
For dessert, he will whip up a healthy pumpkin cheesecake made of high-protein muffin mix and low-fat cottage cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
Still on my must-try list: a gingerbread-cranberry cheesecake trifle at Disneyland’s Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe and the gingerbread pancakes at River Belle Terrace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
For dessert, a slice of Basque cheesecake, no crust, just burnt sugar edges and silken center, served with fruit.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
“Exactly. Eat your cheesecake, mi vida. You need to keep your strength up.”
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
This week’s recommendations include savory cheesecakes in Pasadena and Pico-Robertson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
The judges roll through the critique: Saku’s cheesecakes were terrible and overbaked; Cristy’s were melted and a bit grainy; Josh’s were far too dark; Dana’s jelly was rubbery; Nicky’s base was uneven; Rowan’s were melted.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2023
Mukhopadhyay's cheesecake is a far cry from cheesecakes we are familiar with today that are made with soft, satiny dollops of cream cheese.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2023
The comedy is inherent, onstage as on TV, in requiring folks from Chichester and Wembley to follow skeletal recipes for obscure Eastern European cheesecakes with unpronounceable names.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
About the time of Tiberius there lived a man named Apicius; very rich and luxurious; from whom several kinds of cheesecakes are called Apician.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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