Wednesday
Apr222009
Grilled Cheesecake: A Sweet Take on a Classic Sandwich
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 
With all this talk about the Grilled Cheese Invitational and all of the recipes featured on Good Food lately, I've had grilled cheese on the brain.
Grilled cheese is pretty much the best thing since sliced bread. After all, it is sliced bread--with the added awesomeness of cheese and butter. Can it really get any better?
After being hit with what can only be described as a stroke of pure genius, I can definitively say yes. It can get better.
Say hello to the grilled cheesecake sandwich.
"Is this serious?" you may be asking yourself.
Oh yes. Made out of slivered cheesecake layered between slices of buttered pound cake, this sandwich is serious all right--as serious as a heart attack.
Here's how it's done.
Grilled Cheesecake
- 2 slices pound cake (any flavor you like), buttered on the outside
- 1 small slice cheesecake, slivered
1. Assemble the sandwich as follows: one slice pound cake (butter side down), as many slivers as you'd like of cheesecake (we included bits from the crust for added crunch), and the other slice of pound cake, buttered side up.
2. Put in a saucepan over medium-low heat.
3. After about a minute and a half, gently lift with a spatula to see if it is lightly browned on the bottom. If it is browned to your liking, go ahead and flip; if not, let it brown just a little longer.
4. Once browned to your liking, carefully flip the sandwich. Press down on the top with the spatula to make everything kind of meld. The second side will brown faster than the first one did, so keep a close eye on it.
5. Remove from heat, turn off the heat, slice in half (if you're into that), and enjoy.
2. Put in a saucepan over medium-low heat.
3. After about a minute and a half, gently lift with a spatula to see if it is lightly browned on the bottom. If it is browned to your liking, go ahead and flip; if not, let it brown just a little longer.
4. Once browned to your liking, carefully flip the sandwich. Press down on the top with the spatula to make everything kind of meld. The second side will brown faster than the first one did, so keep a close eye on it.
5. Remove from heat, turn off the heat, slice in half (if you're into that), and enjoy.
Serving note: For those of you who simply can't eat a grilled cheese without soup, I think a bowl of slightly melty strawberry ice cream would complement it quite nicely.
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Reader Comments (68)
Oh my. Oh my oh my.
::drops everything and runs to the store for cheesecake and pound cake:::
Worth dying for!!
I'm dying just looking at it. It looks so good.
Oooh. This gets me thinking.
OMG.
It's a culinary masterpiece! How creative...
Why has no one done this before?? Amazing.
Michelle
http://oneordinaryday.wordpress.com/
You are. pure. evil.
And a soupy strawberry ice cream on the side?!? :::insert gurgle-y Homer Simpson-esque drooling:::
oh. wow.
you know, philadelphia makes cheesecake filling in a tub, so you could just spread that in between the cake slices. yum.
that might officially be the best, THE BEST, soup and sandwich combo ever. EVER.
You are my HERO!!!! This looks way too awesome not to try!
I am going to HAVE to try this...maybe with a nice bottle of wine???
oh rofl how did you come up with such a MAD idea!
you rogue! how does it feel to be pure evil? of course i'm going to try this, and of course i'm going to love it, and of course i'm going to gain 10 pounds. but i'll be happy. :)
Wow...I think...I think I'm going into cheesecake yummy shock...
Paula Deen would love this!
Grilled cheese with pound cake for the bread and cheesecake for the cheese?!?!? Great idea! It looks so perfectly fried and golden brown and good!
This looks AMAZING. Grilled cheese has always been a favorite of mine!
More than brilliant! You are always turning the culinary world on its ear! Love the serving note!
HOLY GOODNESS!!! you could batter it and throw it in a deep fryer too it bet?
I tried this with storebought cakes and it was pretty good, someday I'll have a Fat at Heart party and make it with homemade and see if it's bumped up to amazing. Chocolate cheesecake also worked pretty well!
Sweet Jesus.
I loved your blog post so much I've included it in my Weekly top 15 recipe posts on twitter!By way of www.theinternetchef.biz
Well done, keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing more of these wonderful recipes come swimming down my tweetstream.
Happy cooking,
Love,
Bridge.
OMG! I think I've just died and gone to cheesecake and grilled cheese heavens!
This is soooo worth and hour on the treadmill and the bike and the elliptical. ;)