By Sharon Fox
SERVES 8 TO 10
1 cookie crumb crust recipe, made with finely ground graham crackers.
3 (8-oz) packages cream cheese, softened
4 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sugar
FOR TOPPING:
16 oz sour cream
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Make cookie crumb crust as directed in separate recipe. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
MAKE FILLING AND BAKE:
Beat cream cheese with an electric mixer until fluffy and add eggs, 1 at a time, then vanilla and sugar, beating on low speed until each ingredient is incorporated and scraping down bowl between additions.
Put spring-form pan with crust in a shallow baking pan. Pour filling into crust and bake in a baking pan (to catch drips) in middle of oven 45 minutes, or until cake is set 3 inches from edge but center is still slightly wobbly when pan is gently shaken. Let stand in baking pan on a rack 5 minutes. Leave oven on.
MAKE TOPPING:
Stir together sour cream, sugar, and vanilla. Drop spoonfuls of topping around edge of cake and spread gently over center, smoothing evenly. Bake cake with topping 10 minutes.
Run a knife around top edge of cake to loosen and cool completely in spring-form pan on rack. (Cake will continue to set as it cools.) Chill cake, loosely covered, at least 6 hours. Remove side from pan and transfer cake to a plate. Bring to room temperature before serving.
Cheesecake keeps, covered and chilled, 3 days.
COOKIE-CRUMB CRUST
1 1/2cups (5 oz) finely ground graham crackers or cookies such as chocolate or vanilla wafers or gingersnaps
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1/3 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
Stir together crust ingredients and press onto bottom and 1 inch side of a buttered 24-centimeter spring-form pan. Fill right away or chill up to 2 hours.
Sharon Fox is the author of COMFORT FOOD FOR THE MIND, BODY, AND SOUL and she has a series of eBooks for Kindle.
She’s also Food Editor for several online magazines and host of a new TV show based in Atlanta, GA “The Healthy Living Show”
For more information please visit her website:
http://www.goodcookin4u2.webs.com/
Grab her books AND eBooks at: www.amazon.com/Sharon-YXFVY/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1
This was printed in the July 15, 2012 – July 28, 2012 Edition
