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Strawberry Mille-Feuille
715 Restaurant
Lawrence, Kansas
Creator: Executive Chef Kelly Conwell
Price: $10-$12
This features whipped cheesecake with vanilla bean piped as the filling of a mille-feuille pastry with a sourdough crumble, fresh strawberries and lemon sorbet.
Basque Cheese Tart with fresh raspberry ice cream
LEKU
Miami
Creators: Mikei Goikolea & Estaban Martinez Lamas (from a family recipe)
$16
This cake is made with cream cheese, Idiazabal cheese (a sheep’s milk cheese from Basque country), eggs, sugar and heavy cream. It’s baked at different temperatures — high and then low — which gives it a creamy, oozing middle.
Heart-shaped Strawberry Dragonfruit Non-Dairy Cheesecake
Village Juice & Kitchen
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Creator: Lonnie Atkinson
Price: $7.50
These little strawberry and dragonfruit-flavored “cheese” cakes are made with cashews, maple syrup, coconut butter, almonds, sunflower seeds and raisins. They are gluten-free and non-dairy.
Emily’s Butter Cake
The City Square Steakhouse
Wooster, Ohio
Creators: Mike & Emily Mariola
Price: $10.50
Okay, a butter cake may not be a cheesecake, per se, but it is made with cream cheese, sugar, butter, flour, eggs and vanilla, so it’s cheesecake-adjacent. This rich cake is served warm with a scoop of ice cream and fresh fruit (on hand-thrown stoneware, which is also made by Emily Mariola).
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