A Failed Cheesecake?

I got the best gift the other day - a "Complete" baking cookbook. I've been reading it and playing with recipes ever since. Going along with the fall bounty I mentioned earlier, we picked some wild blueberries from the side of the park trail and took them home to make this low-fat blackberry cheesecake.

Well, the recipe caled for cottage cheese and yogurt instead of cream cheese. I pureed them in the blender to make the cottage cheese smooth, mixed in the other ingredients, and then carefully folded in the berries, so the cake would stay as white as possible. I was pretty pleased with the results when I had it ready to go in the oven:



I was just as pleased when I took it out: It looked almost exactly like the pic in the book!

The kids sat down, smiling, ready to eat their cake ...

I'm not quick enough to have gotten anything past the smiles, but turns out the blackberries we'd picked weren't fully ripe - they were extremely bitter, and my gorgeous cheesecake was so sour I was the only one who actually ate her slice (and I did so more because I bad making it and throwing it all away).