Cheesecake and Sheep's Head Cafe

Published on October 14, 2020 at 10:05 AM

This is a bit long story about cheesecakes and Sheep’s Head Cafe in Iowa City once existed back in 80’s. My friend (she is close to 100 years now) taught me how to bake cheesecakes 20 years ago. She gave me copies of the recipe she got from the library book. There were several different ones but I got complements every time I made those. One of the recipe had captions that this Bare bottom cheesecake was quite popular at Sheep’s Head Cafe in Iowa City. 

 

 

Out of blue, I googled Sheep's Head Cafe last week and came across the thread about this cafe. Someone was searching for the recipe of delicious Chocolate Almond Cheesecake she had at this cafe many years ago, so she started the thread in 2008. Then it collected many comments from people who used to work there, sing there, studied there and finally in 2016, the original owner’s wife posted the recipe. Someone even shared the photo of the café sign she saved when the café was closed. By reading everyone’s comments, I was imagining how cozy and great place this café was in the good old days. I also learned the title of the cheesecake book my friend used and got this from eBay. I made the chocolate Almond Cheesecake for Cecilia’s birthday. It was indeed super delicious! Cheers to Sheep’s Head Cafe!

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