Talk:Cheesecake

Semi-protected edit request on 17 February 2026

Can someone please review the most recent edit by Insicizta, which adds a large irrelevant section about a cheesecake survey in Northern Ireland.

Specifically this section should be removed, or at least not be in the main section of the article:

"The nutritional survey of cheesecake served in most restaurants and hotels in Northern Ireland was carried out by the Food Standards Agency and 11 district controls in Northern Ireland. It was determined that the portion sizes were large with larger servings containing more sugar, fat, saturated fat, energy and salt. It was also determined that the average serving of cheesecake is estimated to be equivalent of 51/2 cubes of sugar and one tenth of the maximum guideline daily amount of salt.[3]" ~2026-10617-57 (talk) 03:39, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done Definitely not due for inclusion in the lead. I've moved this to the Europe section, and it can be decided what to do with it from there. Umby 🌕🐶 (talk) 03:46, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Shortened footnotes?

I'm interested in doing some work on this article, but would rather work with shortened footnotes as they work better with paginated sources. Any opposition from anyone? Whonting (talk) 05:12, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

I don't personally happen to like {{sfn}}, but if you're willing to do the work, I won't object to anything that makes it easier for you. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:06, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Go ahead. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 12:03, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Incorrect citations?

The final paragraph of the history section refers to the no-bake cheesecake being an American invention. However, the cited source by that paragraph is simply a rundown of a few Tudor desserts made with cow's milk, which makes no mention of baking, lack thereof, or, indeed, America.

What's gone wrong here? ~2026-24702-71 (talk) 10:02, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

I agree. ~2026-29174-43 (talk) 11:54, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

The paragraph is a rewording of earlier plagiarised text, in reference to Talk:Cheesecake#Contradictions/errors. In that thread User:Caeciliusinhorto quotes the cited source as saying that The type of modern cheesecake that has an uncooked, cream-cheese filling on a cookie-crumb base is an American invention, so presumably this is in a part of the article beyond the initial preview that only mentions a few Tudor desserts. Belbury (talk) 13:15, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Need a rewrite?

The article, especially the culinary classification, is written on the basis that all cheesecakes are baked. Baked cheesecakes are made with an egg custard, but un-cooked cheesecakes do not contain eggs. Should this all be re-written to distinguish the differences between, or be split out to Baked Cheesecake and Cheesecake? Davidstewartharvey (talk) 16:43, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

The former, in my opinion. The rewrite will help determine if there is enough text for a separate baked cheesecake article. If so, a rewrite will make the split cleaner to do (and easier for future reviewers of the edit history to see). If not, the rewrite will (hopefully) improve Cheesecake article itself. Whonting, as the latest major contributor to this article, has your research into this topic yielded info from references on baked vs uncooked cheesecakes? (For transparency, I came from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Food and drink#Talk:Cheesecake (permalink).) Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 22:08, 12 June 2026 (UTC)