Salted Caramel Cheesecake

What is it?

Three components in a slice: a biscuit base, a set cream cheese filling, and salted caramel threaded through it rather than poured over the top. Swirling the caramel through is what makes the salt work. Poured on top it would sit as a single sweet layer, where threading it through spreads both the caramel and the salt across the whole slice, so the sharpness turns up in most forkfuls rather than only the first one. Salt does the same job here that lemon does in the citrus version, cutting a filling that would otherwise be uniformly rich, though it arrives at the end of a mouthful rather than the start. It's the most recent flavour among Sara Lee's cheesecakes, sitting alongside the plain and fruit-topped versions. Sold frozen and thawed before slicing.