The world-famous Junior\u2019s Cheesecake may be a New York City icon, but its celebrated desserts are actually made across the river in a family-run New Jersey factory.<\/p>\n
Alan Rosen, the third-generation owner, says the roots go back decades.<\/p>\n
“My grandfather opened a restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, with my father and my uncle by his side,” Rosen said. “And he said, if we’re going to be a great restaurant, we also have to have great cheesecake.”<\/p>\n
The recipe has not changed over seven decades.<\/p>\n
Production has increased to meet demand, and over 170 employees make more than 5 million cheesecakes made each year.<\/p>\n
The process starts with about 4 million pounds of cream cheese, along with eggs and sugar, mixed together before moving down the line.<\/p>\n
The batter is hand-stirred as it begins to take shape.<\/p>\n
The cheesecakes are then baked using a process unique to Junior’s.<\/p>\n
“Every pan has got water underneath it,” Rosen said. “We’re baking all these cheesecakes with a water bath. Spreads the heat evenly, stops the cheesecake from burning while it’s baking.”<\/p>\n
After several hours of baking, the cheesecakes are cooled and packed.<\/p>\n
Inside the factory, the focus on family remains a key ingredient behind the world-famous taste. “I feel very responsible to carry on the traditions of my family and also take very good care of my people because, I mean, they’re like my extended family. I probably spend more time with them than I do with my family. And we’re serious about what we do. It’s a, you know, we have the New York tradition for making New York and maybe America’s best cheesecake. And I take that responsibility very seriously,\u201d says Rosen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world-famous Junior\u2019s Cheesecake may be a New York City icon, but its celebrated desserts are actually made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[55235,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-127882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-made-in-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}