OK when it’s on sale
The Father’s Table is a company based in Florida which makes commercial cheesecakes and roll cakes for sale at Safeway and other supermarkets. Their 6″, 1lb cheesecake sampler goes on Friday sale at Safeway every few weeks for $5 (from an $11 regular price), along with their Signature Select cheesecake sampler, and I often get it then. Safeway makes many of their products at home, but given the similar packaging, pricing and taste of this cheesecake with the Safeway Brand, I’m betting Safeway’s cheesecake sampler is manufactured by The Father’s Table as well.
This is an OK, but not great, cheesecake. First, the cake is too thick and too dry. This particularly variety has a chocolate flavored cake, which is somewhat better than the graham one, but still not a winner.
The cheesecake itself is competent but not wonderful. It’s a little on the firm side, and with so many additional flavors, its not always easy to detect that of the cheesecake itself. Still, as an occasional treat it’s not bad. Particularly for $5.
Cinnamon does not belong in creamy cheesecake. Worst bite ever I expected vanilla creamy and got cinnamon spice yuck.
Not creamy at all , crust is way to bland ,texture is to gummy , recipe needs a update !
Just bought one of these for a friend’s birthday and boy was I embarrassed. Easily the worst technically-edible cheesecake I’ve ever had. I tried the plain one (NY style) and the crust was “passable I guess.” Too sweet IMO, and pretty bland. The texture of the filling was okay. But the taste… what the? No detectable cream cheese flavor AT ALL, just sugar, more sugar, and in-your-face vanilla. Which doesn’t sound all that bad, but it was. The overall effect was juuust short of yuck.
This stuff just isn’t cheesecake, not even in the loosest sense. And the other flavors were just as bad if not worse. So bad I felt the need to make my friend a decent cake the next day to make up for this.
I post this as a warning to others. Just… don’t do it.
I’ve always thought those no-bake cool whip premade-crust “cheesecakes” were the worst but I was so wrong. They’re MILES better than this.