• Lucas
• 27 Apr, 2026
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Can You Bake a Perfectly Creamy Cheesecake Without a Water Bath

There’s a moment every baker knows. It’s the quiet hour after you’ve pulled a magnificent cheesecake from the oven. It sits on the counter, golden and proud. You walk away, and when you return, a deep, jagged fissure has split its perfect surface. The dreaded crack. For years, the gospel solution has been the bain-marie, or water bath—a fussy, sloshy, and often leaky insurance policy against this very problem.