# How to store cheesecake? How long?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 10, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-store-cheesecake-how-long/615422 "2012-03-10T23:17:13Z")\
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I see several websites say refrigerate for a few days. Others say it can be frozen a few months.

Someone asked on another forum if s/he could freeze it for a year for an anniversary. I didn’t see where anyone had specifically answered the question. Person on forums are sometimes wont to wander, you know.

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The only use of “store” that I recognize in relation to “cheesecake” is to describe the place where I go to buy cheesecake.

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**Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-store-cheesecake-how-long/615422/3 "2012-03-11T01:57:05Z")

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The only appropriate way to store cheesecake is in a stomach.

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I have a recipe for cheesecake, and I love it, but it makes a large one. I usually make it only when I have a lot of people coming over and most of it will be eaten immediately. If there is some left,bi keep it only a couple days in the refrigerator, or freeze it. I figure if Sara Lee can freezectheir cheesecake, I can freeze mine, but we will eat it within a month.

I would only keep it in the refrigerator a couple days. After that it even looks unappetizing, and I just am uncomfortablebeating it. If you look on another thread you will see that I leave my butter on the counter for weeks so it stays soft, so it’s not as though I’m a nut about refrigeration.

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> The only appropriate way to store cheesecake is in a stomach.

That’s only a temporary holding facility. Permanent storage is in the warehouse located along the equatorial belt.

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**Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-store-cheesecake-how-long/615422/6 "2012-03-11T03:01:46Z")

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My mother has made and frozen cheesecake before.

I wouldn’t freeze it for a year, probably, but that’s mostly because I like cheesecake, but would just as soon make a new one for the anniversary.