Perfect New York Cheesecake
"This is the first cheesecake recipe I have made with NO CRACKS! It was delicous, light but rich. I served with strawberry sauce and fresh raspberries. careful not to overmix, that can cause cracks."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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1 cheesecake
- Serves:
- 14
ingredients
-
cake
- 1 lb cream cheese, room temp
- 1 lb reduced-fat cream cheese, room temp
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 3⁄4 cup milk (can use half and half or cream wonderfully too!)
- 4 eggs, room temp
- 1 cup sour cream (daisy full fat is best here)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
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crust
- 1 3⁄4 cups graham crackers, crushed
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1⁄3 cup sugar
directions
- mix crust ingredients and press into a 9 or 10 in springform pan.
- grease sides of pan with melted butter- this is important!
- preheat oven to 325 with a baking dish of water on the bottom rack (move to lowest position) and move upper rack to second highest position.
- beat cream cheese, adding sugar at medium low speed. scrape sides as needed (if you have a mixer with paddle attachment, use it!) until smooth.
- on low speed add milk until combined.
- add eggs one at a time until combined.
- add lemon, vanilla and sour cream.
- sift in flour and cornstarch, mix just until combined (still on low).
- pour into crust.
- bake on higher rack- DON'T open oven before one hour ever!
- check on it at 1 hour 5 minutes, if it's set outside but jiggles, not liquid, but definitely shakes) inside, it's done. it usually will need 1 hour 15 minutes at least. the edges should be just turning golden.
- TURN OFF oven leave door closed, no more peeking for at least one hour, preferably 3.
- refrigerate overnight for best taste.
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I live in MI with my family and am always on the lookout for new tasty recipes that even my toddler will like. He loves meat and pasta, most fruit and is getting better about veggies. I cook every meal 7 days a week, with the occasional lunch or dinner out (very occasional!) but I love cooking so it's not a bad thing to me.
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<br>I am a big sweets eater and recently got an ice cream maker so I have been whipping up lots of ice cream. My favorite so far has been Ben and Jerry's heath bar crunch, it's so creamy and only lasts 2 days in this house! Other baked goods and homemade bread are favorites too, though not much bread gets baked in the summer.
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<br>I hate doing dishes! We are currently house hunting and a dishwasher is a must (we don't have one right now). Luckily my dh is pretty good about helping out with the dishes :)
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<br>I know it seems like I give lots of good reviews, but there is a good reason: I know what we like, so I pick dishes I think we will like, and often we do. If i give a review of a recipe with no stars it's because I think I did something wrong usually so that's why it didn't come out right. Or if something has excellent ratings and I don't like it, I don't want to ruin that, because obviously I didn't like something, but that's not a refection of the actual recipe!
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<br>I dislike when people don't make the recipe correctly and give it a bad review. Ok, if you change one or two small things, fine, but if you make major changes, not ok. And when people give a bad review because it was good, but not what they are looking for? Sorry, but I don't get that. YOU picked it, if it tastes good but wasn't what you were looking for, not the recipe's fault :)
