Virginia'S Cheese Cake
- Pastry Crust
- 1 cup sifted flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 Tbs grated lemon peel
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter at room temp
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Filling
- 5 - 8oz packages cream cheese
- 1 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 Tbs flour
- 1 1/2 tsp grated orange peel
- 1 1/2 tsp grated lemon peel
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
- 5 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/4 cup whipping cream (unwhipped)
- Preheat oven to 400 degress F
- Pastry Crust
- 1. Combine flout, sugar, & lemon peel.
- 2. Make a well in center and drop in egg yolk, butter & vanilla.
- 3. Quickly work together until well blended.
- 4. Wrap in waxed paper & chill for 1 hour.
- Prepare crust in pan
- 1. Roll out 1/3 of dough 1/8" thick.
- 2. Fit over bottom of buttered 9" spring form pan, Trim and save extra dough.
- 3. Bake circle of dough about 8-10 minutes or until golden. Cool.
- 4. Butter sides of pan and place pan sides over pan bottom.
- 5. Turn oven up to 500 degrees F.
- 6. Roll out remaining dough and line pan 3/4 of the way up the side. Do not cook yet.
- Filling
- 1. Blend together cream cheese, sugar, flour, grated peels, and vanilla until smooth.
- 2. Add eggs and yolks, 1 at a time, mixing well after each one.
- 3. Blend in unwhipped whipping cream thoroughly.
- 4. Turn cream cheese mixture into pan lined with uncooked crust on sides.
- 5. Bake 10-12 minutes at 500 degrees F.
- 6. Reduce heat to 200 degrees F and bake 1 hour more.
- 7. Cool in a draft-free place.
- 8. Top with glaze.
- 9. Remove sides of pan and refrigerate.
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/virginias-cheese-cake-58392928 (may not work)