New York Style Cheese Cake
- 1lb cream cheese
- 3 cups sour cream
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 tbsp butter
- 6 graham cracker sheets
- Preheat oven to 350u0b0
- Add water to roasting pan and put in oven
- Wrap spring form pan with foil to prevent leakage
- Grease the inside of spring form pan
- For the crust
- Add graham crackers to bag
- Crush crackers into small pieces
- Melt butter in medium sauce pan
- Add crushed crackers to pan
- Toss crackers and coat with butter
- Press crackers into bottom of spring form pan to for even layer
- For the Cake
- Add cream cheese and sugar to mixing bowl and beat until smooth 3-4 min
- Add cornstarch to bowl
- Add eggs one at a time
- Add vanilla
- Add salt
- Add sour cream until blended
- Pour ingredients into spring form pan
- Place spring form pan in roasting pan in oven
- Bake for 45 min
- Turn off oven and allow cooling for 1:20
- Remove from oven and allow cooling for 2 hours
- Wrap spring form pan with foil and place in fridge overnight
- The next day
- Remove cake from fridge
- Have serving plate ready
- Un-mold cake put on serving plate
- Garnish and serve
- Variations for this recipe
- Banana Cheesecake
- 1cup mashed bananas replaces 1cup sour cream
- Chocolate swirl
- Melt 1/2 cup chocolate
- Add 1/2 cake batter to spring form pan
- Drizzle chocolate in center and around spring form pan
- Add remaining cake batter to pan
- Add remaining chocolate to pan
- Using a paring knife swirl chocolate into batter
- Fruit
- Add 1/2 cake batter to spring form pan
- Add fruit puree to spring form pan
- Add remaining cake batter to pan
- Add remaining fruit puree to pan
- Using a paring knife swirl fruit puree into batter
- Chef Jay
- There are no wrongs in cooking only the discoveries of new tastes
cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, cornstarch, eggs, vanilla, ubc, butter, graham cracker sheets
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/new-york-style-cheese-cake-1255729 (may not work)