Cheesecake with Caramel Drizzle

I found this amazing recipe via Pinterest and can be found here:  Cheesecake. I followed the recipe to a tee so I would suggest you do too as I don't mess around or get creative with baking.

Homemade cheesecake with not so homemade caramel sauce!

Well, I am not really a baker... I wish I liked it... but I just don't. It requires way too much patience and precision and I always seem to mess it up somehow. Oh yeah and it involves chemistry - which was not a favorite subject of mine at anytime. Enough said... I still attempt to bake things on occasion. Most of the time it gets screwed up but sometimes, I mean sometimes I end up with a tasty treat. This was one of those occasions. Now I will say that there weren't any mishaps or disasters in the kitchen while making the cheesecake. And I couldn't just be satisfied with that, now could I? I had to go and try to make salted caramel sauce to pour on top. Oh my - what an annoying, time consuming, waste of time this was for me. I tried 3 times, using 3 different recipes and they were all an EPIC FAIL. The sugar would never turn "amber"... it just boiled and bubbled away and never started to solidify, thus the temp never went over 200º, thus it never turned amber. I googled it and searched on pinterest - blah blah - NADA came up and I just gave up! Major bummer and a I discovered a whole new found appreciation for candy makers. Yes, there are just things I like to eat that I would prefer to buy versus make and CARAMEL is most definitely ONE OF THEM. So, after 3 failed attempts, I bought a Jar of Hershey's Caramel sauce at the store and that tasted just fine by the way. Maybe, one day in another lifetime I will attempt to make this "caramel sauce" again... but probably not.

So the cheesecake was so easy to make for me - the non-baker type and I would definitely recommend this special occasion treat (It's definitely not fat-free!) Q got a new job and I wanted to make him a Congratulations sweet treat for his sweet tooth. He loved it so it was a WIN in my book! Now I'm off to get a piece of cheesecake, nom nom nom!

Enjoy!