Thursday, November 3, 2011

Karen's cheesecake

This is my all time favorite dessert. I can't count how many times I have made this over the years.  Its rich and creamy with a buttery graham cracker crust and sour cream topping.

9 inch glass pie pan
Pre Heat oven to 350 degrees
Ingredients

2 packages 8 ounces cream cheese softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

Sour cream topping

8 ounces sour cream
4 Tb sugar

Crust

12 graham crackers
1 stick butter
1 Tb sugar

Directions

Place graham crackers in large zip lock baggie and crush by rolling over graham crackers with a glass until they are small beads.  Add sugar and mix together. dump graham crackers in pie pan.
Melt butter and cool slightly, pour over graham crackers and mix well.  press mixture into bottom of pie pan and up the sides. Set aside.

In medium bowl using a hand mixer combine cream cheese, sugar and eggs together.  Add eggs and beat until smooth.  Pour into graham cracker crust and bake 20 minutes.

In the meantime in small bowl combine sour cream and sugar together.

When filling has baked 20 minutes remove from oven and gently starting from the edges working your way in a circle around to the middle, spoon sour cream mixture over the filling.  Return to the oven and continue baking another 15-20 minutes.  Center will be slightly giggly when its done. Cool for 1 hour then refrigerate for 6 hours before serving.

Serves 8

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