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"Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite."--Ruth Reichl

"Brooklyn" New York Style Cheesecake Recipe

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Crust
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
One (1) 6 3/4 oz. box of Sunshine Vanilla Wafers
1/4 lb. melted butter
Directions:
Directions:
Crumb the vanilla wafers.
Add melted butter.
Pat mixture on bottom of 9" spring form to a height of 2" on the sides.
Reserve 1/2 cup crumb mixture for top of cake.
 

Cheese Filling
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Five (5) 8 oz. packages of cream cheese
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 tbsp. flour
1/2 tsp. lemon extract
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. vanilla
1 cup eggs (approximately 5 small eggs) plus 2 egg yolks
1/4 cup heavy cream
Directions:
Directions:
Soften cream cheese, beat until light and fluffy.
Combine sugar, salt and flour.
Add a few tablespoons at a time to cream cheese mix.
Add lemon extract, then a few more tablespoons of flour mixture.
Add vanilla extract, ending with remaining flour mixture. Blend well.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
Last, stir in cream gently.
Pour into 9" spring form pan. Place pan under cake in oven.
Bake at 500º for 8 minutes. Reduce to 250º and continue baking for one hour.
Sprinkle remaining crumb mixture on top after first 1/2 hour of baking.

 

 

 

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