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Cheesecake

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Cheesecake

Based on the Three Cities of Spain Classic Cheesecake from The Gourmet Cookbook.
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Prep Time 2 hours
Cook Time 55 minutes
Chill Time 12 hours
Course Dessert
Servings 10

Ingredients
  

Cheesecake

  • 3 pkgs 8-oz package Cream Cheese softened
  • 4 large Eggs
  • 1 Cup Sugar
  • 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1 lb Sour cream
  • Cookie Crumb Crust

Cookie Crumb Crust

  • 22 cookies Newman’s Own Newman-O’s or Oreos
  • OR 1 pkg Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers 9oz, about 42 cookies
  • 6 tbsp Unsalted butter, softened

Instructions
 

Cheesecake

  • Allow cream cheese, eggs, and sour cream to come to room temperature.
  • Pre-heat oven to 350 F with water in a pan on the bottom rack.
  • Beat cream cheese with an electric mixer at medium speed until fluffy.
  • Reduce speed to low, and add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each egg, scrapping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
  • Add 1 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and mix well.
  • Add sour cream and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and mix well.
  • Pour in to 9 to 10 inch springform pan with crust.
  • Bake with pan on a baking sheet until cake is set about 3 inches from the edge and center is still wobbly, about 55 minutes.
  • Turn the oven off, leave pan in the oven with the door cracked for 30 minutes.
  • Run a knife or toothpick around the top edge of the cake to loosen it from the pan.
  • Cool completely on a rack, cake will set as it cools.
  • Chill 6 hours to overnight.
  • Bring to room temperature before serving.

Cookie Crumb Crust

  • Pre-heat oven to 350℉.
  • Remove crème filling from the cookies (if using O's).
  • Breakup cookies into crumbs with food processor or mortar and pestle.
  • Mix crumbs and softened butter and press into the bottom of a spring form pan.
  • Bake for 5 minutes.

Notes

Cheesecake Variations
  • Size: medium pans (6”)
    • 3 Cups batter
    • Crust: 2/3 Cups cookie crumbs, 3 Tbsp softened butter
    • Bake 35 minutes
  • Size: small pans (4 ½”)
    • 1 Cup batter
    • Bake 30 minutes
  • Size: mini
    • 1 full recipe makes 2 trays of 12 mini cakes
    • Bake 18 minutes
  • One full cake recipe makes 2 medium (6”) cakes and 1 small (4 ½”) cake.
 
  • Flavor: Banana
    • Add 2 ripe bananas per full recipe after all other ingredients and mix well
    • Bake as usual
 
  • Flavor: Mocha
    • Add 2 Tbsp Instant Espresso and 2 Tbsp Unsweetened Cacao to Vanilla Extract and 1 Cup of Sour Cream from the original recipe and mix to dissolve
    • Add to the other ingredients and mix well
    • Bake as usual

Published by Sean