My Favourite Lemon Cheesecake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
1 piece
- Serves:
- 10
ingredients
-
Base
- 1 cup flour
- 1⁄4 sugar
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
-
Topping
- 16 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 3 -4 tablespoons grated lemon zest
- 1 cup yogurt
- 10 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
directions
- Preheat oven to 350*F.
- In a bowl mix by hand first 3 ingredients fir the base. Pat the dough gently over the bottom of an 8" pan and about 1" up the sides. Bake the base on the center oven rack until golden, about 25 minutes. Meanwhile prepare the topping.
- Using a blender (you can also use electric mixer ) on medium speed mix ingredients in following order.: eggs, sugar,yogurt, lemon juice and zest, cream cheese till light and fluffy. You may have to stop the blender/ mixer once or twice to scrape the bowl with a rubber spatula. Spread the topping evenly over the base.
- Bake on the center oven rack for about 1 hour,or until the center of the dish is set.
- Chill in the fridge for several hours or over night.
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<p>I am native Bulgarian and I have enjoyed cooking since little. I love trying foods from different cultures and experimenting with foods that I am not familiar with. <br />I hope you get to enjoy some of the recipes I am posting on my blog.</p>