35 Best Cheesecake Factory Cheesecakes Ranked in 2025

There are a handful of reasons you might go for a meal at The Cheesecake Factory: brunch and mimosas, a special-occasion dinner with something for everyone…but we all know deep down that every visit is a chance to discover the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavor.

Yet, with so many flavors on the menu, it can feel impossible to narrow down the best cheesecakes from The Cheesecake Factory when there are more options than you can even keep track of.

And while there can never be a single definitive ranking of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes, there are certain flavors that are perennially popular, and others that have never gotten as much love.

Though the lines of public opinion don’t always map on to personal tastes, thousands of happy customers can’t have been too wrong about the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake…right? 

Buckle up, because this is going to be one long, sweet ride. 

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How We Ranked These Cheesecake Factory Cheesecakes

Cozymeal knows restaurants. It’s kind of our thing: with expert chef-backed content and heaps of culinary experience, our editorial team prides itself on providing the informed culinary insight our readers have come to rely on.

Making sure we have our finger on the pulse of the food world is a big part of that, and it informed how we ranked the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors. 

To ensure that this ranking of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes reflects what real customers are saying, we combined extensive research and personal experience.

Online reviews, social media, blogs and other ways of sharing culinary opinions are crucial when we’re ranking these cheesecakes, but we had a few experiences of our own to draw upon, too. (Pretending we’re not a little bit biased when it comes to cheesecake would be both dishonest and boring.)

As we listened to the internet’s cheesecake chatter, we looked for cakes that were said to meet these criteria:  

• Taste: How much did customers like the flavor profile and texture? 
• Mix-Ins: Were any mix-ins used evenly distributed throughout the cake? Did they taste like the menu description claimed they would? 
• Originality: In a sea of cheesecakes, did this flavor bring anything new to the scene?  

Cheesecakes that scored high in those categories earned themselves high rankings on this list. 

The 35 Best Cheesecakes at Cheesecake Factory Ranked

35. Celebration  

This one is an absolute whopper, combining about six popular desserts into one in shades of pastel for a sugar rush that anyone over the age of seven would live to regret. Here you’ve got cheesecake, vanilla confetti cake, a Neapolitan chocolate-vanilla-strawberry mousse center layer, and cream cheese frosting.

And while it may be a child’s birthday wish come true, it’s hard for any grown-up to get past just how much all of this is. In the end, the busy flavor profile and even color scheme of Celebration Cheesecake are a far cry from the refinement of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. 

You’ll soon start to see that very few of the combination flavors that add traditional cake to cheesecake perform very well on this list, but this is by far the most egregious example. 

34. Fresh Banana Cream  

Opinions are super mixed on this one. Some customers vehemently argue that it’s the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake, full-out; those who do typically cite its natural, pleasant banana flavor.

But enough customers absolutely hate it that we felt okay ranking this as low as we could manage. It may not give you the sugar rush of Celebration, but it will remind you of mushy bananas. We didn’t even need to call on our personal dislike for the fruit to justify ranking this one near the bottom. 

33. Low-Liscious  

Okay, look. If you’re trying to eat healthily, skip the “lighter” alternatives and save the cheesecake for a special occasion when you can go all-out. It’s as simple as waiting for cheat day, because unfortunately, any attempt at making cheesecake healthy is going to end in a sad, pale imitation of what you wish you were eating. Low-Licious is a perfect example of this.

Sure, it’s sweetened with Splenda to cut calories and sugar. But it’s still nowhere near healthy, so why not just go for the real thing? If you don’t want to consume half a day’s worth of calories for dessert, it would be much more prudent and infinitely more enjoyable to order one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors and eat only half of the slice. It’s worth it if only to avoid the Splenda aftertaste. 

32. Low-Licious With Strawberries  

See above. This one gets the dubious honor of placing one spot higher because it comes with strawberries to distract you from the sad Splenda taste. 

31. Very Cherry Ghirardelli Chocolate 

The Cheesecake Factory’s collaboration with Ghirardelli produced one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes, which we’ll get to in a second. But it also produced this over-the-top cherry concoction that doesn’t quite live up to its potential. 

Chocolate and cherries are great together — just ask Ben & Jerry’s. But cherry is a difficult flavor, since it can so easily taste like medicine if not handled well. That was, unfortunately, the fate of this cheesecake.

Not only is the cherry flavor not the most appealing, but its combination of real cherries, chocolate chunks, brownie crust and chocolate frosting is entirely too much. 

If they’d taken the classic Ghirardelli Chocolate cheesecake and infused it with cherry, we might have been looking at one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. Unfortunately, they went the “everything but the kitchen sink” route instead. It doesn’t pay off. 

30. Tiramisù  

This is, quite literally, a slice of cheesecake and a tiramisu smushed together. Nothing was eliminated, nothing modified: all the parts of both are there.

There’s probably somebody out there who would boldly call this the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake, but to the rest of us, even one of those desserts is almost too decadent. Never mind both at once. 

29. Coconut Cream Pie  

There’s potential here for one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. Using a macaroon-inspired coconut crust was genius. But the additions of chocolate, vanilla custard and frosting made it all a little too much.

There are some great elements here, but combined, they’re just too much to keep up with. Plus, anyone who doesn’t love coconut will taste virtually nothing else, so its audience is inherently more niche than those of some of the higher-ranking options on this list of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. 

28. Ultimate Red Velvet

We’ll give this flavor one thing: it starts with a sensible idea. Red velvet cake has to have cream cheese frosting, so combining it with cheesecake seems like a natural choice.

In some ways, it is: it’s a beautiful slice of cake, and the flavors marry well enough. But they’re not punchy enough to make this one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes, which leads us to conclude that this overloaded slice is more likely to put you in a dessert coma than it’s worth. 

27. White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle 

While many find white chocolate overly sweet, this alone isn’t what keeps White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle from cracking the ranks of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. Here, we’re more put off by the one-note sweetness.

Tart raspberry should be the perfect partner for overly-sweet white chocolate, but it doesn’t quite play its role to perfection here. An extra hint of tanginess would have done this cake a world of good. 

26. Lemon Raspberry Cream 

There’s doing the most and then there’s doing too much. Lemon and raspberry are an amazing combination, and if this dessert were simply a cheesecake that incorporated those two flavors somehow, we bet it would’ve been one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes.

But, as is so often the case, Lemon Raspberry Cream falls into the trap of adding on one too many bells and/or whistles. Adding vanilla cake already messes up the delicate fruity balance, and then they had to go and stick lady fingers in there, too? 

It’s too much. This could have been so, so delicious, and indeed, some guests cite it as their personal pick for the title of best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake. But we pull up to The Cheesecake Factory when we want to eat glorious sweetened cream cheese, not lady fingers. Pass. 

25. Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake

A tasty but overdone peanut-butter-chocolate flavor — there are better options in this category. While Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake offers a nice balance of its component parts, some welcome saltiness from the peanuts and a crowd-pleasing flavor combination, it misses out on being one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes simply because it’s. So. Much.

We’re sounding like a broken record here, we know, but these elaborate layer cakes with both cheesecake and traditional cake tend to be so rich you can only eat a few bites. A later peanut butter flavor is a much better choice than this one. 

24. Pineapple Upside-Down  

Oh, Cheesecake Factory, when are you going to learn that trying to recreate a popular cake as a cheesecake is almost never a good idea? There isn’t a single one that cracked the top half of this list. Pineapple Upside-Down is one of the better ones, but it’s still nowhere near the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake.

This is a solidly okay slice of cheesecake, but the texture is a little funky, and it lacks some of the brightness that we associate with a proper pineapple upside-down cake. There were probably better ways to adapt this flavor profile to a cheesecake than simply sandwiching it between two layers of actual pineapple upside-down cake. 

23. Triple Berry Bliss 

In some sense, this elaborate flavor is better set up for success than most of the decadent layered cakes on this list. Berries have a natural tartness that might offset some of that excessive sweetness. Ultimately, though, that promising start does not make one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors.

It’s tasty, no doubt, and the berry flavor is bright and appealing — we just can’t help but feel that it would’ve been a much better treat if they stuck with a plain old cheesecake base. But if you like berries and you’re not as preoccupied with the whole cake-layer thing as we are, this may well be one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes in your book. 

22. Cinnabon Cinnamon Swirl  

One of the best fast food desserts gets a twist in this flavor that swings for the fences but doesn’t quite ascend to the ranks of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. We will give it credit for being a whole lot better than most flavors that utilize a cake layer (in this case, cinnamon roll dough), and cinnamon rolls already have a cream cheese frosting — or, at least, the good ones do.

But there’s a difference between a quick spread of cream cheese frosting and multiple entire layers of cheesecake. Though the flavors mesh well and the cinnamon roll vibe is adequately captured, it’s also dense, uncomfortably rich and ultimately overwhelming. 

A few bites might have you thinking this is one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. A few more will probably have you regretting your choices. 

21. Cookie Dough Lover’s  

This flavor absolutely has the potential to be one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors, but it falls short on two fronts. First: Chocolate chip cookies, we all know, are significantly worse when you add nuts to the mix. (We’re fully prepared to die on this hill, just so you know.)

And secondly, all the cookie dough tends to clump together either at the bottom of the slice or towards the back, so you don’t get a bit of the dough in every bite. That’s truly a shame.

The flavors and textures in this one are all up there with the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes, but the execution doesn’t bring it all together the way we’d hope. It’s sad to see such a delicious concept fall flat, but it needs a little tweaking before we can really call it one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors. 

20. Hershey’s Chocolate Bar 

Unsurprisingly, here’s another flavor that could benefit from wheeling it in just a little. Or maybe a lot: chocolate cheesecake, chocolate crust, chocolate cake and even a layer of chocolate frosting. If you haven’t gotten the picture, this is truly an overload of chocolate.

If that’s your thing, this could be one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors. If it isn’t, this one will get old faster than you can take a second bite. While it’s hard to pan a flavor with this much potential to delight a very specific kind of diner, this is another case of “too much going on.” 

19. 30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake 

You know by now how we feel about cheesecakes with cake layers (i.e., that most of them will never see the light of Heaven), but we’ll give this one a partial pass for its simplicity.

Is it one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes? Not quite. But the dense, fudgy chocolate cake pairs well with the cheesecake layers, and the flavor doesn’t try to do too much. It really is just chocolate cake and cheesecake. 

While it’s still way too rich to finish a whole slice, it’s an enjoyable and less-than-overwhelming flavor. In the end, we suppose the 30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake’s lack of crazed ambition saves its ranking. 

It’s also important to note that this is discontinued in most locations. But it may return to the menu at some point. 

18. Basque Cheesecake  

Basque cheesecake has recently come into vogue, so naturally, The Cheesecake Factory had to jump on that train. The result is tasty, and definitely a departure from the typical tastes and textures of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes, but devoted fans of authentic Basque cheesecakes aren’t quite satisfied.

It’s obvious that Basque cheesecake isn’t The Cheesecake Factory’s forte yet, but there’s enough potential here that we’d love to see them tweak the recipe to get it just right in the future. 

17. Peach Perfect With Raspberry Drizzle

This flavor (debuting July 30, 2025) could be set to become one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. (This almost middle-of-the-pack ranking is just so we won’t interrupt the list of flavors people have actually been able to try too much.)

Peach Perfect is a peach cheesecake with peach chunks, peach topping and raspberry sauce. The Cheesecake Factory has never done a peach-based flavor before, so we’re excited to see how this intriguing fruity slice stacks up with the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes we already have. 

16. Salted Caramel  

Salted caramel can be tricky: whether it’s ice cream or a donut or, in this case, a slice of cheesecake, things that purport to be infused with salted caramel often don’t seem to taste the part.

So it’s a relief that this cheesecake actually uses salted caramel itself, with a thick caramel topping that really hammers home the point. It’s only the over-decadence and a lack of originality that keep this from being one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors. 

Yes, this is a dense cake — there’s no denying that. But the slight saltiness and the brilliant use of a blondie crust in place of the usual graham cracker one make it a worthwhile order even so.  

15. Dulce de Leche  

This, on the other hand, is a caramel cheesecake for those who want the taste of caramel without its overwhelming richness. Dulce de Leche keeps it light, and this is really where we start to turn the corner into the ranks of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes.

Perhaps it doesn’t get the same buzz as Salted Caramel or something like Caramel Pecan Turtle, but with a light caramel mousse and an almond brickle topping, it really ought to. Of the Cheesecake Factory’s more inventive flavors, this is easily one of the best. 

14. Caramel Pecan Turtle  

Caramel cheesecake on a brownie base is a brilliant concept, and we’re glad to see The Cheesecake Factory doing something with it. And what it’s doing is mostly delicious. 

What keeps this largely delicious flavor from ranking higher among the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes is our belief that nuts don’t generally belong in a cheesecake — nothing more. If you don’t hold the same opinion and/or love the namesake candy, this is a must-try. It’s definitely decadent, but well worth it.  

13. Chocolate Mousse 

This is like Hershey’s Chocolate Bar if you axed the cake layer, and it’s so much better for it. Sure, it’s still an uber-rich chocolate cheesecake that won’t likely appeal to anyone who isn’t a hardcore chocolate lover.

But if that’s you, this is most certainly one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors. It might even be enough to make us admit (however grudgingly) that sometimes that mousse layer adds dimension that a flavor badly needs. 

12. Oreo Dream Extreme

This flavor risks the dreaded “too much going on” label, but ultimately, its charm is enough to win out over the possibility that it’s just too decadent to be enjoyable. Sure, it runs the risk: cheesecake, mousse, whole Oreos, Oreo crust and frosting — it’s certainly not subtle. 

But it’s a fan-favorite that saves itself by forgoing a richer chocolate cheesecake base in favor of the tangy original. It may have its naysayers, but we’re confident in ranking it among the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors. 

11. Chocolate Tuxedo 

Chocolate cheesecake, vanilla mousse: either this one was going to be terribly dull and ineffective, or it would be one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors. Luckily for us all, it’s the latter.

The use of mascarpone cheese in the vanilla mousse seriously elevates it, and the nuance it adds to this cheesecake’s flavor is ultimately what allows Chocolate Tuxedo to shine where it could’ve fallen flat. 

10. Lemon Meringue  

Two of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes on this list are inspired by pies, and both of them work wonders with that concept. You’ll have to keep reading for the second, but one thing we can let you know without spoiling anything here is that they both soar where their equivalent pies often flounder because of their texture.

Lemon meringue pie is a polarizing classic. Some love its bright tartness and chewy meringue topping, while others point to the frequency with which it doesn’t live up to expectations. 

And it’s true that the filling of a lemon meringue pie may very well not be the silky-smooth curd you hope for. But cheesecake is pretty much always clump-free, and combined with an airy lemon mousse and a perfectly torched meringue topping, that texture makes this copy, quite possibly, better than the original.

If you’re not into lemon, you’re not into lemon. But if you’re even lemon-neutral, don’t sleep on this one: it truly earns its top 10 spot among the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. 

9. Vanilla Bean  

Vanilla is constantly panned for being boring, but in our humble opinion, it only reveals its secrets to those who open their minds to the possibility that something so simple could, in fact, be the perfect flavor. 

This is especially true of Vanilla Bean: though it’s simple enough to be written off as boring, it well deserves a place as one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes.

Although this one is about half cheesecake and half mousse, few find it overly rich. Quite the opposite: it’s one of the lightest, fluffiest cheesecakes on this menu. And it’s got the subtly nuanced vanilla flavor you would hope for. 

However, it can’t quite beat Original among the menu’s plainer offerings, it’s still one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors for those seeking something a little less elaborate.

8. Chocolate Caramelicious With Snickers Bar 

The reasons for ranking this one among the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors are incredibly simple. Brownie, Snickers bar, cheesecake: we have to defer to our inner child for this one, because that’s the only way to grasp what makes this one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes.

The contrasting textures of the brownie, Snickers bits, and cheesecake only take it over the edge. And if you think Snickers is the best chocolate bar, you’ll likely rank it much higher than eighth. 

7. Fresh Strawberry  

Though plain Original shines a little brighter, this incredibly classic flavor is still one of The Cheesecake Factory’s best cheesecakes. Even if you associate the kind of gloopy red fruit that adorns this cheesecake with your gelatin-loving older relatives, the acidic brightness of a strawberry is simply the perfect complement for dense, tangy cheesecake. There’s a real elegance in simplicity, isn’t there? 

6. Mango Key Lime 

We’ll excuse a mousse layer this one time, but that’s a pass you only get by being one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors in the business. Mango Key Lime takes the perfection of The Cheesecake Factory’s key lime base (see below), adds a layer of mango mousse and sets it all on an addictively chewy coconut crust inspired by a macaroon — inspired, if we do say so ourselves.

No other flavor is doing anything like this, and its originality alone would have it up there with the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. That it tastes as heavenly as you think it should is only proof of what we were already pretty sure of. 

5. Toasted Marshmallow S’mores Galore  

This is kind of a hypocritical rating given our much-expressed distaste for over-the-top flavors that are too rich and sugary to really enjoy. But Toasted Marshmallow S’mores Galore, despite its richness, captures the joy of a s’more on a plate in a way few other imitations we’ve encountered have managed to. 

Sure, you may only be able to eat five bites, but those five bites will prove to you that the combination of rich chocolate cheesecake and toasted marshmallow is one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake ideas they’ve ever had.

Drop the pretense of sophistication and you’ll see just how delightful this hulking slice of marshmallow-enrobed indulgence can be. 

4. Original  

The one that started it all. There’s absolutely nothing we can say about Original that hasn’t been said more eloquently by somebody else, but it’s the masterful default from which all the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors get their start.

No, it’s not doing anything unexpected, but it doesn’t have to. The world would be entirely off-kilter if we had all those elaborate combo flavors to choose from, but not the nuanced, creamy tang of a plain old slice of cheesecake. 

3. Adam’s Peanut Butter Fudge Ripple 

The vastly superior peanut butter flavor, and one of the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes for devotees of the sweet-and-salty combo. While Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake falters with the unwise addition of a cake layer, Adam’s Peanut Butter Fudge Ripple instead gets its oomph from mix-ins: caramel, peanut butter, Reese’s and Butterfinger.

The saltiness is there, the sweetness is definitely there, and it’s all topped off with an Oreo crust. (More flavors really should have an Oreo crust.) It’s decadent, but in an I-can’t-stop-eating way rather than an I-might-be-sick one. A best-of-the-best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake slice for the young at heart. 

2. Godiva Chocolate 

Cheesecake is a famously rich dessert, and being too rich has already kept countless flavors from competing with the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake flavors. But Godiva Chocolate is rich in a different way. There’s no gimmick here, no layer of cake or custard — just a slice of dense, intense dark chocolate cheesecake.

The deep cacao taste demands that you savor this one instead of inhaling it, and it has an air of sophistication unmatched among the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes. This is the one you order when your date asks you to pick a flavor to share: there’s a reason it’s one of the Cheesecake Factory’s most popular cheesecakes, and it impresses every time. 

1. Key Lime 

Key lime sounds like a rather niche flavor for a cheesecake, and although the Cheesecake Factory has made it a little more mainstream, it sort of is. Did that stop it from serving as the author’s birthday cake for at least three consecutive birthdays as a child? You bet it didn’t.

And this really wasn’t just because she was an incredibly odd kid: that annual slice of Key Lime was tangy, creamy, silky perfection, and we have absolutely no trouble declaring it the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake. 

We get why diners would be reluctant to order this flavor. Key lime pie is a hugely hit-or-miss dessert, often tarnished by a lumpy texture or an unpleasant aftertaste. But cream cheese makes the perfect medium for it, ensuring that silky-smooth texture you’ll so rarely get in a key lime pie and adding a more neutral, tangy note to balance out the sourness of the lime. 

All we can say is that it’s absolutely perfect. Acquired taste? Perhaps. But you should really think about acquiring it. 

What Is the Best Cheesecake at Cheesecake Factory? 

The short answer to this question is that nobody will ever agree on the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake. The chain wouldn’t make 35 flavors if its customers’ tastes weren’t widely varied, so everybody you ask will likely answer this question differently.

However, Original tends to be the safe pick: it might not be very exciting, but it’s a delicious base for many of the snazzier flavors, and there are very few people who don’t think highly of it. 

Yet, if you have to pick a more out-there flavor, the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecake might just be Mango Key Lime. We ranked it in sixth place (still a very strong showing!) on the basis of our undying loyalty to regular Key Lime, but with its tropical flair and unique coconut crust, Mango Key Lime is one of the most highly-regarded flavors the Cheesecake Factory has to offer. If you like peanut butter, Adam’s Peanut Butter Fudge Ripple is similarly beloved.

The Cheesecake Factory might be a full-service restaurant, but we all know we’re really going for the dessert course. To dine there without saving room for cheesecake would be unthinkable, because the best Cheesecake Factory cheesecakes offer a dessert experience that no other sit-down chain can parallel. 

So next time your special occasion takes you to The Cheesecake Factory, come prepared: with this list of the Cheesecake Factory’s most popular cheesecakes, you’ll be able to make a selection that the whole table will envy. Don’t want anyone sneaking a bite? Then you’d better give your party the 401 on the best flavors before you dine.

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