Mexican Cheesecake

OK, so there is very little Mexican about this recipe. In fact, Mexico has its own style of cheesecake all its own, pay de queso (cheese pie), which you will see in this blog one day, but for now, I just need to brag on my Mexican husband a bit.

Now, there are three Mexican-specific elements to making a New York style cheesecake here in Mexico City. First, lemons are fairly pricey and annoyingly difficult to find, so we use limes.
Second, I have never seen a graham cracker in any of the supermarkets or warehouse stores that I have been to, so we use Maria cookies or this great nuez-flavored cookie (nuez literally means nut, but refers to pecan here), called Marianitas - which really adds this great level of flavor.

Third, squeezee bottle dulce de leche is pretty much a standard staple here, so we went ahead and swirled some of that in, too.

So, it's not Mexican, but my husband is...and it looks so pretty!