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Baked Neapolitan Cheesecake—Prototype 2:   I felt that something needed to be done about the cinnamon in the crust and the strawberry batter's color. This would include reducing the cinnamon, likely due to it clashing too much with (at least) the chocolate. And I couldn't get away from looking at the loss of pink in the strawberry layer as too much of an injustice for a Neapolitan cheesecake. That loss called for some drastic action (more specifically, a willingness to use artificial red food coloring, if it had to come to that). I therefore made a strawberry-only cheesecake, Prototype 8, with these concerns in mind. The outcome of that cheesecake would help set things up—including a longer pre-bake time with the crust—for the latest Neapolitan prototype presented here.   3-Cheese Blend (3CT-1NC-2YG): Prepare ahead of time 16 ounces of yogurt cheese, derived from one 32-ounce container of nonfat yogurt. If the resulting yogurt cheese falls below 16 ounces, add back enough of the whey (that was strained out from the yogurt) to make up the difference. To this yogurt cheese combine 24 ounces of whipped, lowfat cottage cheese and 8 ounces of softened Neufchatel cheese ("light cream cheese"). Grease a 9 1/2" (or 9") pan, but do not wrap foil around it until just before the batter is added (spreading the crust in an already wrapped pan can result in greater disturbance to the foil, thus increasing leakage risks). Crust: 2 oz. melted, white chocolate 8 oz. (1 cup) 3-cheese blend (see above) 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 2 oz. finely ground All-Bran Place the resulting mixture in the greased pan and pre-bake without tub at 300 degrees for 10-15 minutes, depending on the mixture's thickness (closer to 15 minutes if thin enough to be fully distributed across the pan's bottom by gentle shaking, closer to 10 minutes if thick enough to require spreading out this mixture by pressing on it with a utensil and/or fingers), then cool enough to comfortably touch at least the pan's upper sidewall. Vanilla Batter: 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon (7/12 cup) granulated sugar 13 1/3 oz. (1 2/3 cups) 3-cheese blend (see above) 2 teaspoons vanilla 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum 2 eggs Wrap the pan in foil at this point. Carefully pour the batter on top of the crust and bake all this in a hot water tub at 325 degrees for about 30 minutes. Afterwards, take the tub-and-pan assembly out of the oven and promptly add the next batter indicated below. Strawberry Batter: 1/4 cup + 2 teaspoons granulated sugar 1/3 cup Nestlé Strawberry Nesquik drink mix (the same amount of mix that would be needed as if to make 2/3 quart of the drink itself) 13 1/3 oz. (1 2/3 cups) 3-cheese blend (see above) 2/3 to 3/4 teaspoon vanilla 1/8 teaspoon heat-resistant red food coloring 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum 2 eggs Carefully scoop this on top of the vanilla batter (it is best to do this around the edge of the pan and let the strawberry batter flow towards the middle) and return the tub-and-pan assembly to the oven, still at 325 degrees. Resume baking for about another 30 minutes (if using a 9 1/2" pan). Afterwards, take the tub-and-pan assembly out of the oven and promptly add the final batter shown below. Chocolate Batter: 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon (7/12 cup) granulated sugar 2 tablespoons cocoa powder 13 1/3 oz. (1 2/3 cups) 3-cheese blend (see above) 2/3 to 3/4 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum 2 eggs Carefully scoop this on top of the strawberry batter (again, it is best to do this around the edge of the pan and let the chocolate batter flow towards the middle) and return the tub-and-pan assembly to the oven, this time at only 300 degrees. Bake for about 65 more minutes (if using a 9 1/2" pan). Then shut off the oven and cool the cheesecake down while still in it (and in tub), with the oven door slightly ajar, for about an hour. Afterwards, remove the cheesecake (still in its springform pan) from the oven and tub and continue to cool it down at room temperature for another two hours. After cooling down at room temperature, remove the cheesecake from its pan and refrigerate. My mind made a booboo upon making this cheesecake. Upon dividing the cheese blend, I probably measured out about 16 ounces for the vanilla batter, when I was supposed to measure out only about 13 1/3. By the time I suspected this error, I had already mixed in the granulated sugar, vanilla and xanthan gum. At least I did not add the 2 eggs yet. Therefore, I measured a small amount of what I already had of this vanilla batter back to the cheese blend designated for the chocolate and strawberry ones. This would mean a little extra granulated sugar, vanilla and xanthan gum for the chocolate batter and for the strawberry one—and also a corresponding decrease in those three ingredients for the vanilla batter, which itself would hopefully still taste decent. But I was very upset at myself over the cheese blend mistake that jeopardized a potential terrific work of art that I had been looking forward oh-so-eagerly to, ultimately, present to my fellow associates at The Home Depot, come Labor Day, in 2019. But this cheesecake at the cookout there ended up working out very well, and I got plenty of compliments from my co-workers. Not only did all three batter layers and the crust taste fine (I felt that the amount of cinnamon was very likely just right for Neapolitan), but less than 1/6 (probably close to 1/8) of this treat was left nearly four hours after I put it out. I headed home from my workplace shortly afterward, leaving behind whatever remained.