Key Lime Cheesecake with Mango Ribbons
- 1 1/4 cups fine graham cracker crumbs (5 oz)
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter, melted
- 2 (8-oz) packages cream cheese at room temperature
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
- 3/4 cup fresh Key lime juice (strained from about 1 1/2 lb Key limes) or bottled
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 large eggs
- 2 large firm-ripe mangoes
- 1 tablespoon fresh Key lime juice (strained) or bottled
- 1/2 cup chilled heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- Special equipment: a 9- to 9 1/2-inch springform pan; a mandoline or other adjustable-blade slicer
- Preheat oven to 350F and butter bottom and side of springform pan.
- Stir together crumbs, sugar, and butter in a bowl with a fork until combined well, then press evenly onto bottom and one-third up side of pan.
- Bake crust in middle of oven 8 minutes and cool in pan on a rack.
- Reduce oven temperature to 325F.
- Beat cream cheese with an electric mixer at medium speed until fluffy, then beat in sugar.
- Add lime juice, sour cream, and vanilla and beat until smooth.
- Mix in flour and salt at low speed, scraping down side as needed, until just incorporated, then add eggs all at once and mix just until incorporated.
- Pour filling into crust and set springform pan in a shallow baking pan.
- Bake cake in middle of oven until set in center, 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes.
- Cool completely in springform pan on rack.
- (Cake will continue to set as it cools.)
- Run a thin knife around edge of cake and remove side of pan.
- If desired, transfer cake with a large metal spatula to a serving plate.
- Peel mangoes and, leaving fruit whole, slice very thinly lengthwise (slightly less than 1/8 inch thick) with mandoline (use caution peeled mango is slippery).
- Halve wide slices lengthwise.
- Gently toss mango slices with lime juice.
- Beat cream with sugar in a bowl with electric mixer until it just holds stiff peaks, then spread over top of cheesecake.
- Bending and curling mango slices, arrange them decoratively over cream.
- Available via Manhattan Key Lime Juice (212-696-5378).
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/key-lime-cheesecake-with-mango-ribbons-106542 (may not work)