Sour Cream Cheesecake

We often think of cheesecake as being an all-American dessert that’s maybe a couple of hundred years old, but both those assumptions couldn’t be further from the truth. It will probably surprise you to know that cheesecake was served to athletes during the first ever Olympic Games in Greece in 776 BC—that’s four thousand years ago!

It was also used as a traditional wedding cake, using a simple recipe of pounded curd cheese baked with honey and flour on an earthenware griddle, and la