Super Cheesecake Recipe

Super Cheesecake Recipe

Ingredients

• Serving Size : 20

liz jones:

pastry:

• 1 1/4 cup flour – all-purpose
• 3/4 cup butter – softened-1 1/2 stick
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg yolk – large
• grated peel of 1 small lemon

filling:

• 5 package cream cheese;softened – each 8oz
• 1 3/4 cup sugar
• 5 eggs – large
• 1/4 cup milk
• 3 tablespoon flour – all-purpose
• 2 egg yolks – large
• grated peel of 1 small lemon

Method

1. First prepare pastry dough: In large bowl, with mixer at low speed, beat flour, butter, sugar, egg yolk and grated lemon peel until well mixed.
2. Shape dough into ball; wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
3. Preheat oven to 400-degrees.
4. Press 1/3 of dough onto bottom of 10″ x 2 1/2″ springform pan; keep remaining dough refrigerated.
5. Bake crust 8 minutes or until golden; cool in pan on wire rack.
6. Turn oven control to 475-degrees.
7. While crust is cooling, prepare filling: In large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat cream cheese just until smooth; slowly beat in sugar, scraping bowl often with rubber spatula.
8. Add eggs, milk, flour, egg yolks amd lemon peel; beat 5 minutes, occasionally scraping bowl.
9. Press remaining dough around sides of pan to within 1-inch of top.
10. Pour cream cheese mixture into crust.
11. Bake cheesecake 12 minutes.
12. Turn oven control to 300-degrees; bake 35 minutes longer.
13. Turn off oven; let cheesecake remain in oven 30 minutes.
14. Remove cheesecake.

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