Scale
arrow_back Recipe

Recipe Git v1

New York Cheesecake

Cookbook | Recipes | Ingredients | Equipment | Techniques | Cookbook Disambiguation Pages | Recipes | Dessert | Cake | New York City cuisine

Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 8 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: medium difficulty, recipes for cheesecake, recipes for dessert, recipes using butter, recipes using cornstarch, recipes using cream cheese, recipes using digestive biscuit, recipes using egg, recipes using lemon zest, recipes using wheat flour, recipes using white sugar, recipes with images

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ANew_York_Cheesecake)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ANew%20York%20Cheesecake&oldid=4517122

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

Crust

  • 5 ounces Barnham and Bailey animal crackers or sweet digestive biscuits
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 4 tablespoons melted butter

Cake

  • 2 ½ pounds softened cream cheese
  • 1 ¾ cups white granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoon corn starch
  • 3 tablespoons flour
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 5 large whole eggs
  • 2 large egg yolks
  • ¼ cup heavy cream

Directions

Crust

  1. Butter bottom and sides of 10-inch springform pan.
  2. Crush animal crackers into a fine powder. Mix with 3 tablespoons of sugar.
  3. Add to melted butter and mix with a fork until blended.
  4. Press mixture into the bottom and up about one third of the sides of the pan.
  5. Refrigerate 1 hour.

Cake

  1. Have all ingredients at room temperature.
  2. Preheat oven to 475°F.
  3. Mix sugar, flour and cornstarch together.
  4. Using a wooden spoon, beat cream cheese with sugar mix, zest and vanilla until it is smooth. Do not overbeat.
  5. Add the whole eggs and egg yolks, one at a time, beating lightly with wooden spoon after each addition. Do not overbeat as this causes the cheesecake to crack.
  6. Gently stir in cream.
  7. Pour mixture into the pan. Place pan on cookie sheet to avoid leakage.
  8. Bake at 475°F for 15 minutes
  9. Lower heat to 225°F and bake for 1 hour
  10. Raise heat to 250°F and bake for about 15 more minutes
  11. Refrigerate immediately for at least 1 hour, covered with a cloth and cookie sheet (cloth on bottom) until condensation stops forming. Condensation will drip onto the cake if you cover it right away with plastic wrap.

Notes

You may substitute lemon juice for vanilla.