Classic Cheesecake

11 ingredients
7 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 c. graham cracker crumbs
  • 1/4 c. confectioners sugar
  • 6 to 8 Tbsp. melted butter
  • 1 lb. cottage cheese
  • 1 pt. sour cream
  • 8 oz. pkg. softened cream cheese
  • 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 c. sugar
  • 1/4 c. flour
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 can cherry pie filling (optional) or fresh sliced strawberries or blueberries to serve with cake

Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat the oven to 300°.
  2. 2
    Butter a 12-inch spring-form pan. Mix the pulverized graham crackers, sugar and melted butter and pat this dough into the bottom of the spring-form pan. Bake for 15 minutes or until set; remove and cool before filling. Raise the temperature to 350°.
  3. 3
    With an electric mixer, beat the cottage cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, eggs, sugar, flour and vanilla. Beat for 10 minutes; batter will be very thin.
  4. 4
    Pour over crust and bake for 40 minutes. Turn off oven but leave cake in for an additional 30 minutes.
  5. 5
    Do not open oven door. Remove cake from oven, then cool cake for 2 hours.
  6. 6
    When cool, run a thin metal spatula around the edge of cake. Loosen and remove sides of spring-form pan.
  7. 7
    Note that when cooling, cheesecake will develop a large crack across the top. Slide cake onto plate. If you wish, top with pie filling or serve a wedge of cake with fresh berries. Yield: 12 to 16 servings.

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