Cheesecake Recipe

One of my favorite chefs on Recipezaar (now food.com) is Kittencal. She has a tremendous number of recipes posted, I have used some of her recipes and have always found them to be the best. Now, when I am looking for a recipe, I will search her postings first. Thursday night I wanted to make a cheesecake so I searched for Kittencal and narrowed my search to cheesecake. Sure enough - she had a terrific recipe posted!!! I made the cheesecake, using a graham cracker crust instead of oreo cookies. I also used low-fat cream cheese and low-fat sour cream. We topped it with no sugar added cherry pie filling. This is definitely a 10 star submission!

Cheesecake

Ingredients:

Servings:

12 12

12-16

Servings Size

CRUST

• 24 Oreo cookies, finely crushed
• 2 tablespoons melted butter or 2 tablespoons margarine

FILLING

• 3 (8 ounce) packages Philadelphia Cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 5 large eggs, room temperature
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
• 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour (1/4 cup)
• 2 cups sour cream

TOPPING

• 1 (28 ounce) can cherry pie filling or 1 (28 ounce) can blueberry pie filling

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Directions:

Prep Time: 20 mins

Total Time: 1 1/2 hrs

1. 1 Set oven to 325 degrees F.
2. 2 Set oven rack to middle position.
3. 3 Grease bottom and sides of a 9-inch springform pan,.
4. 4 For the crust; in a bowl combine the cookie crumbs with melted butter; mix until well combined (I use my hands for this).
5. 5 Pat into the bottom of the springform pan; chill while making the filling.
6. 6 For the filling in a large bowl using an electric mixer beat the cream cheese and sugar until fluffy (about 4 minutes).
7. 7 Add in eggs, lemon juice and vanilla; beat until thoroughly combined.
8. 8 Add in flour; beat until completely combined.
9. 9 Add in sour cream; beat until well combined.
10. 10 Pour over the crust in the pan.
11. 11 Bake for 1 hour.
12. 12 Turn the heat off and open the oven door to stay slightly.
13. 13 Allow the baked cheesecake to remain in the oven for 1 hour (with heat turned off).
14. 14 Cool slightly at room temperature then refrigerate overnight.
15. 15 Before serving release the sides of the pan from the cheesecake.
16. 16 Slice as desired then top slices with pie filling.

Read more: http://www.food.com/recipe/kittencals-cheesecake-298498#ixzz1FmHgyMH2