What to do with 700g of cream cheese?

[devilsknew]

if you can’t get the graham crackers, I’ve had a xheesecake with a xweet sugar cookie dough,

Here is a recipe from Uncle Phaedrus for Italian Cookie dough Cheesecake. The ingredients should be readily available…simply substitute all cream cheese in place of the cream cheese - ricotta combination, or follow one of these other excellent recipes for cheesecake filling listed herein. The pineapple crust also seems especially tasty.

[Hokkaido_Brit]

@MissGypsy

If you can get graham flour (which I can barely find here in the U.S.), you could make your own graham crackers and hence crumbs, but I have no clue if that would be available to you. I also thought of Nilla wafers, or some not-very-sweet shortbread cookies, or perhaps even some vanilla sandwich cookies, but again, I don’t know what you can get. Gingersnaps might make a good substitute, too, if you can get them. I don’t think oats would work, but I’ve never tried it, so I could be wrong.

I did get Graham flour once a few years ago from a bakery supply store a couple of hours drive away, but last time we made the trek up there it had gone! Much wailing and gnashing of teeth ensued, as I’d also been able to buy raisins and confectioner’s sugar there. No more…

What is really weird about health conscious Japan, where portions are way smaller and contain way less meat or fish and way more veggies than the west, is that their bread products are made of white muck, and there is nothing at all else. You can buy “brown flour” provenance unknown, in 100g bags (four ounces!!!) which are designed to make “brown bread” in bread machines - you mix that 100g with another 300g of the white pap so I am not sure what is healthy about that.

The baking products “aisle” in any supermarket round here is about three feet wide at the most and contains baking powder, baking soda (in 1oz packs only) flour (two brands, both only white, one for bread and one for cakes) chocolate sprinkles and the like and glace cherries sold in tiny packs of five or so. You can buy gelatin (unflavoured powdered stuff) year round but jello powder is only available in two flavours during the summer months. It’s a real challenge doing western baking here, and often I don’t bother because it is simply such hard work and then my Japanese family all sneer at what I have done and won’t eat it anyway.

Why yes I do get depressed about this!

The apple slices sounds good. I think I am going to go with a baked cheesecake recipe with a strawberry sauce and no bottom.

Thanks for all the inspiration! NOw I better get a move on before the stuff goes off - had it a week already…