If your partner or a person of interest likes cheesecake, making this easy, award-winning cheesecake will increase your chances of getting laid exponentially. Award winning? I entered this cheesecake in the Oregon State Fair and it won a Blue Ribbon and Best of Division! Easy to make? It takes me about fifteen minutes of actual preparation time. That’s 15 minutes, not 50. Impossible to mess up? I’ve now made this cheesecake more than twenty times, and people raved about each and every one.

If you do a browser search for “Chocolate Chip Cookies” you’ll be blown away at how many different recipes there are, each claiming to be the best ever. I learned to avoid any of these recipe blogs that says, “My husband absolutely loved these cookies and couldn’t stop eating them!” The truth is, her husband probably left her for another woman who was sensible enough to follow the recipe for Toll House Cookies on the back of the Nestle Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chip package and forgo all of the extra garbage that goes into the food bloggers’

Unless you are trying to score with someone who is in AA, this cake should be at the top of anyone’s list of recipes to help them get laid. It will impress and amaze. I have made it five times and I wouldn’t consider another rum cake recipe—it’s that good. The cake becomes incredibly moist because after baking it, you soak it over night with butter rum sauce. Visit the King Arthur Flour website for the Caribbean Rum Cake recipe.

It’s unlikely anyone will be able to tell if the wine you used in your red meat sauce came from a bottle of Trader Joe’s Two-Buck Chuck (now Four-Buck Chuck) or a $44 Domaine du Pelican Arbois Trois Cépages. But try using the cheapest bourbon for your pulled pork barbecue sauce or the cheapest rum for your Caribbean Rum Cake, and people will notice.

While it’s usually okay to cook with cheap red wine,