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Classic Ny Cheesecake Recipe
Serves: 1
Keywords: Classic Ny Cheesecake Recipe, recipe, recipes, Classic Ny Cheesecake Recipe
Ingredients
16
Graham crackers
½
Stick butter, softened
1
tb
Sugar
5
pk
8oz cream cheese, softened
1 ¾
c
Sugar
3
tb
All-purpose flour
1
ts
Grated lemon peel
¼
ts
Salt
¼
ts
Vanilla
5
lg
Eggs
2
lg
Egg yolks
¼
c
Sour cream
2
pt
Strawberries
1
c
Water
½
c
Sugar
1 ½
tb
Cornstarch
3
dr
Red food coloring
Directions
- Crust: Add all ingredients into food processor.
- Blend well.
- Put in 10" springform pan.
- Press evenly on bottom and 1/2 up the sides.
- Filling: Beat cream cheese in large mixing bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and fluffy, stopping to scrape down sides of bowl occasionally.
- Gradually add sugar, flour, lemon peel, salt and vanilla, beating constantly.
- Add eggs and yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Scrape down sides once or twice.
- Mix in sour cream; the mixture will be thin.
- Pour into crust lined pan.
- Place on baking sheet.
- Bake at 500 degree oven for 8 minutes or until top is golden.
- Reduce temperature to 200 degrees and continue to bake for 1 hour or until center jiggles slightly.
- Remove to wire rack and cool in draft-free place at room temperature for 3 hours or overnight.
- Remove sides of springform.
- Make desired glaze and spread evenly over top of cheescake as directed.
- Refrigerate until serving.
- Strawberry Glaze: Slice 1 cup of the berries and place in a medium sized saucepan with the water.
- Bring to a boil over moderate heat and cook for 2 minutes.
- Push berries with spoon through a strainer placed over small bowl; scrape bottom of strainer to remove all pulp.
- Return berries to saucepan and stir sugar and cornstarch.
- Bring to a boil over moderate heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens.
- Stir in food coloring.
- Cool to lukewarm.
- Slice remaining berries in half and arrange in concentric circles over top of cake.
- Spoon warm glaze over berries, letting some of the glaze drip down the sides of the cake.
- Refrigerate until set, about 1 hour.
- Submitted By PGL@IGLOU.
- COM (DON THOMAS) On 27 FEB 1995 052843 -0700