Put in Oven for Twenty Two Years

There they sat, four cheesecake portrayals of my life. 

Imperfect, yet trying oh-so-hard to look professional and pretty. After all, it isn't where you come from or what you're made of as long as you look good, right? As my favorite mug used to say (thank you mom for the gift) -

"BEAUTY: If you're beautiful on the outside, nobody cares what you're like on the inside."

Just kidding! Well, sort of.

So after roughly seven hours of oven heat, a few "you remind me of your grandmother when you're in the kitchen, you make such a mess, there is batter everywhere" exasperated mother grumbles, and a few burnt fingers (chocolate chips can heat up really fast), I had my life set out on the table, all ready for the following day's dinner party.

Clockwise from left: Lemon cheesecake with coconut crust (lemon rinds didn't turn out as pretty as I had hoped but once I cut them I couldn't quite figure out how I wanted to arrange them), Blackberry marble cheesecake, Pineapple cheesecake and Chocolate cheesecake.

Okay so maybe the one year of photography in high school didn't do all that much, but I also just got lazy and used the closest camera I had...which was not a camera but a cellular device. I wasn't planning on starting a blog, and honestly, who walks an extra ten feet just to pick up a real camera? Clearly not this girl.
I really, really hope people like cheesecake. A lot.
Because I don't really eat desserts.
Yeah, seriously. Go figure.