My favorite cheesecake:
Original New York Cheesecake
Dense, rich, and yummy. This cheesecake is my favorite. My whole family loves it. Here’s the recipe.
Ingrediants:
For the crust:
1 ½ cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
6 tbs. Butter
2 tbs. Sugar
For the Filling:
2 lbs. Cream cheese
¾ cup Sugar
2 large Eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla extract
2 tbs. Cornstarch
1 cup Sour Cream
Preheat the oven to 450’ F.
Combine the crust ingrediants and press into the sides and bottom of a 9-inch springform pan. Place the crust into your freezer for 15 minutes.
Soften the cream cheese in your microwave (Don’t over do it; the cream cheese must be warm, not hot.) and place into a large bowl. Cream in the sugar until everything is smooth. Beat in the remaining ingrediants until all is well blended, smooth and creamy.
Remove the crust from the freezer and pour in the filling. Place in the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Lower the temperature to 200’ F. And bake for an additional 35 minutes. Turn off the heat and crack the oven door. Let the cheesecake cool with the oven for 2 to 3 hours. This will help prevent the custard from cracking.
For a firmer cheesecake, bake at 200’ F. for 45 minutes. My favorite topping on cheesecake is sour cream that has been sweetened with sugar or Stevia. But you can put virtually any fruit pie filling on top that you want. Cheesecake goes great with apple, pineapple, strawberry, blueberry, cherry, even banana cream. It’s all good.
If you want to get real tricky, line the spring form pan with parchment paper and omit the crust. Cook the cheesecake as directed above for the firmer custard, remove the pan sides when all is cool. Carefully slide the parchment paper and custard off of the pan bottom. Then bake your crust. Fill the crust when done with chocolate or maple fudge, or firm fruit-filling and allow to cool.
Finaly, slide a thin, plastic cutting sheet under the filling and lift the cusard over the pan. Slide the custard off of the parchment paper and into the crust, to sit on top of the other filling. Refrigerate for an hour, and serve.
You could make this red, white and blue by using strawberries on the bottom, followed by cheesecake, and finally blueberries on top.
Seeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North