Baked Orange Vanilla Cheesecake—Prototype 5:
 
Okay, so the previous prototype of this cheesecake went over surprisingly well with my co-workers, but I was still very unhappy with the batter's excessively soft texture. I had an anxious quest to redo this one with much more stability. And that's what I did less than two weeks later, around the beginning of May 2025.
 
Repeat Prototype 4, but boost the batter's xanthan gum to two teaspoons.

Orange Vanilla Cheesecake—Prototype 5

Now that's more like it!

I brought this one to a "potluck" lunch at my church, Living Hope. There wasn't a big crowd there, but a few slices did get taken and seemed to be well-received. I took home the rest and gave some of it out to others.

I had given some thought to bumping up the xanthan gum a little bit more—just 1/4 of a teaspoon—for next time, due to some slice tip wilting issues (I still wanted to make sure that I would not run into any rubbery results elsewhere).
 

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