Lemon Goat Cheese Cheesecake

• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, plus 1 teaspoon (for greasing the pan)
• 8 ounces cookies (lemon, shortbread, vanilla wafers, or your favorite cookie)
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
• 10 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
• 6 ounces creamy fresh goat cheese, room temperature
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 eggs, room temperature
• 1/2 cup creme fraiche or sour cream
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 teaspoons firmly packed lemon zest (not strips, make sure it's very finely zested)
• 8 ounces cookies, enough to circle the cake (preferably the same kind you used for the crust)
• 2 tablespoons of your favorite jam or honey (for gluing on cookies)

1. Heat oven to 350u0b0 F. Butter the interior of your springform pan. Cut a piece of parchment to fit the bottom of the pan and press it into the pan. Butter the parchment. Set aside.rnrnPlace butter for the crust in a medium-sized pan over medium heat. The butter will melt, sizzle, and foam up. Once it smells nutty and the noise stops, watch closely. Turn off the heat once the brown bits drop down to the bottom of the pan. Set aside.rnrnPulverize your cookies in the food processor. Pulse in the brown butter and a 1/4 teaspoon of the salt. Press into the bottom and up about 1 inch of the greased spring form pan. Bake until just starting to brown (about 10 minutes). Remove from the oven to cool. Turn oven down to 300u0b0 F.
2. Place cream cheese and goat cheese in the bowl of a standing mixer, and beat until light and smooth (about 3 minutes). Scrape down the sides. Add the sugar and beat for another minute. Scrape down the sides. Add the eggs one at at a time, scraping down between each addition. Add the remaining salt, creme fraiche, and lemon juice and zest. Beat for another 30 seconds. If you see any lumps, beat for another 30 seconds or so.
3. Pour into the crust in the prepared springform pan. Bake for 40 minutes. Don't peek. Not even once. After 40 minutes, turn off the oven and open the door. Leave the cake to cool for an hour in the oven. After an hour, remove from the oven to cool completely. (Otherwise, the cake will sweat in the fridge.) Cover and place in the fridge for 8 hours or overnight.
4. To serve, place the bottom of the pan over a medium flame on the stove. Move it around for about 5 seconds over the flame. Use a warm paring knife (warmed under hot water or over the flame) to separate the cake from the side of the pan. Remove outer ring from the spring form pan. Don't stress if it looks like a mess because you will be covering the sides up with cookies. Try to slide the cake off of the bottom of the pan. If it won't budge, put it over the flame for a few more seconds and/or use a spatula to loosen things up. I've found that once the cake is off the base and on the plate, you can easily slide out the circle of parchment paper. Sometimes, the parchment will even stay behind on the pan.
5. Encircle the side with the same cookies you used for the crust. They will need a little help sticking; you can use any kind of jam or honey.
6. Eat immediately, or store in the fridge until serving -- though be warned, the cookies might get a big stale the longer it sits.

unsalted butter, cookies, kosher salt, cream cheese, goat cheese, sugar, eggs, crueme fraueeche, lemon juice, lemon zest, cookies, honey

Taken from food52.com/recipes/34369-lemon-goat-cheese-cheesecake (may not work)