No Basque Cheesecake? Fuck this list.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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No Italian ricotta cheesecake? For shame!
I kid, but I seriously recommend people try it. Crust optional, filling is a combo of ricotta and marscapone cheese with butter and sour cream. Wonderful as-is, but even better with strawberry or raspberry sauce.
Italian and Basque are the two best ones, followed by New York. Scandinavian is nice enough and also not listed.
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Basque? That ought to be in there. Had one in Barcelona that was amazing. Tried to make one at home and it just seemed flat compared to the Spanish one.
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They misspelled Käsekuchen.
Maybe they just ran out of dots.
Luckily there is a rule for that. You just add an "e". Germans will know when they read Kaese that it means Käse(cheese).
ä=ae ö=oe ü=ue
And bonus ß=ss
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Käsekuchen ist immer lecker
German here 👋 When I ate my first American Cheesecake in the US I actually thought that something was wrong with it and I let the others at my table which were all Americans taste as well. They all said it was alright. It was pure sweet and almost inedible for my German cheese cake taste. I never ate one after that experience 😅
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Käsekuchen is my favourite out of the three I’ve tried. It’s incredibly well balanced in flavours. It’s a shame Quark is almost completely unheard of outside German/Slavic countries.
The swedish one is a bit different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostkaka
In German that name means East-Poo-Poo. Sounds delicious.
Quark cheese had been known to spontaneously pop in and out of existence with its anti-quark cheese counterpart, at which point the collide and annihilate each other in an intense burst of radiation.
Sweden would like to join the chat
I tried this and was gravely disappointed 😔
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You’re missing basque style
The whole point here is: NO RAISINS!
Who’s putting raisins in a cheesecake…?
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There's a bakery I like that does 'Hungarian cheesecake.' It's like the German but with chocolate chips inside. Only place that has ever made a chocolate-involved cheesecake I have ever liked.
Now I want cheesecake.
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Sorry but no.
In Germany we also use Frischkäse which is cream cheese.
Wikipedia says you can use quark or cream cheese: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4sekuchen
Probably lots of variations from one family recipe to the next...
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The Japanese one looks amazing
In my experience, Japanese baking tends to look perfect but fall very short on flavor and texture.
They also generally like things less sweet and less rich (i.e. butter, cream) than westerners and cheese is not even worth the calories.
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Now i want Cheesecake
Swedish cheesecake anyone? Preferably Hälsinge cheesecake.
Baked cheese curd with cream and cloud berries. To die for.
that polish shit looks like it fucks
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