This article is about the dessert. Cheesecake is a sweet dessert consisting of one or more layers. Cheesecake is usually sweetened with sugar and may be flavored in different ways. Vanilla, spices, baklava cheesecake, chocolate, pumpkin, or other flavors may be added to the main cheese layer.
An ancient form of cheesecake may have been a popular dish in ancient Greece even prior to Romans’ adoption of it with the conquest of Greece. Of the three, placenta cake is the most like modern cheesecakes: having a crust that is separately prepared and baked. A more modern version called a sambocade, made with elderflower and rose water, is found in Forme of Cury, an English cookbook from 1390. The English name cheesecake has been used only since the 15th century, and the cheesecake did not evolve into its modern form until somewhere around the 18th century.
