New York Cheesecake
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Meal Type: Cheesecakes
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Ingredients
CRUST:
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons butter melted
FILLING:
5 8-ounce packages cream cheese
1 1/2 cups sugar
5 eggs
2 egg yolks
2 tablespoons flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
Crust: Mix crumbs, sugar and butter; press onto bottom of 9 in. pan. Bake 8 minutes at 325°. For a chocolate crust mix in 2 tablespoons of cocoa.
Beat cream cheese until creamy about 30 seconds. Beat in sugar, flour, salt - 1-2 min. Beat in 1 egg at a time, don't overbeat. Beat in egg yolks. Slowly beat in cream and vanilla. Pour in pan slowly. Preheat oven to 350° with a pan of water in oven. Bake cheesecake for 15 minutes at 350°, turn back to 300° for 1 hr and 30 min or when you shake the pan the pan gently it should be firm but still wobble a little bit. Turn oven off and open door. Leave in oven for 30 min. Let cool completely and then refrigerate overnight.
For the lime cheesecake I added the juice from 4 limes and finely grated zest from 3 of them. I used the zest from the other one to put in the crust. Just add the lime juice and zest with the cream and vanilla.