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The “REAL” Cheesecake Recipe

Course: Desserts
1st Gen Author: Janene Jensen

Ingredients

Pie Crust

  • 2½ cup crushed graham crackers
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ⅓ cup white sugar
  • ½ cup butter melted

Cheesecake:

  • 3 8 oz pkgs cream cheese
  • 1½ cup sugar
  • 4 eggs separate the yolks from the whites, but save both
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 Tbsp lemon juice

Sour Cream Topping:

  • 2 cup sour cream
  • 4 Tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp lemon juice

Instructions

Pie Crust

  • Combine dry ingredients and mix well.
  • Add melted butter and mix in.
  • Line 2 9" pie pans (or you can use a 9×13" cake pan)
  • Bake pie crust at 350° for approx. 3 min.
  • Let cool

Cheesecake:

  • Cream the cream cheese, add white sugar, lemon juice, vanilla and egg yolks. Beat until smooth. Set aside.
  • Now beat your egg whites (using clean beaters) until stiff but not dry and fold into the cream cheese mixture.
  • Pour into the pie crust.
  • Bake at 325° until firm (approx 30-40 min.). If you choose to use a 9×13" cake pan cook for 40-60 min.

Sour Cream Topping:

  • Mix ingredients thoroughly and pour over "cooled" cheesecake. Refrigerate completed cheesecake for 1 hr.