Well, I mean they’ve always said food is the way to everyone’s heart and looks like that doesn’t exclude convicts. Piper Kerman, the creator of the Netflix original “Orange Is The New Black” who was inspired by her own prison experiences to write a book which would later turn into a hit series, told Ask Me Another host, Ophira Erisenberg that she got on everybody’s good side with her very own recipe for “prison cheesecake.” Find out how she made it after the jump!
Kerman told Erisenberg that she navigated her way through prison by being helpful and one the ways she did that was by making a “prison cheesecake” for her fellow inmates’ birthdays and going-away parties.
Kerman says that food played an important role while she was in prison being that the women really bonded over cooking for one another using different contraband items, microwaves and pretty much whatever else they could find.
Read Piper’s recipe and instructions to make her jail bait cheesecake below!
Cheesecake recipe (from Piper’s old blog The Pipe Bomb):
“Bake at your own risk.”
PRISON CHEESECAKE
(popular at birthday and going away parties)
Ingredients:
1 six-oz. package of Graham Crackers, Vanilla Wafers or Oreos
4-6 pats of margarine
1 round of Laughing Cow cheese (8 wedges)
4 cups of vanilla pudding
6 oz. of Coffee Mate
1/2 c. lemon juice (more to taste)
Steal the margarine from the dining hall, melt in microwave and crumble cookies into a 1-quart Tupperware dish that you’ve bought from the commissary or borrowed from your bunkie along with the margarine. Mix well and press firmly into the bottom of the dish. Place in the microwave on high for 1-2 minutes. Your crust is done.
In a separate dish, squash Laughing Cow cheese into as smooth a mass as possible. Mix in part of the lemon juice and continue to blend. Try to work out the lumps. Mix in pudding and continue to blend, add more lemon juice to taste. Blend until filling is as creamy as possible, then gradually mix in Coffee Mate. Some people double the Coffee Mate; this seems overboard to me. When mixture is smooth & thick, pour over the crust. Chill in your plastic washbucket filled with ice under your bed (or in a refrigerator if the part of the prison where you work has one you can slip it into), for at least 4 hours. Eat.
SOURCE: NPR
