Cookie cress cheesecake

By bigbare

This cheesecake is a very dense creamy cheesecake that is baked in a sugar cookie shell supposed to the graham cracker shell normally used.

Ingredients

• Cookie crust:
• 1/2 cup butter softened
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• -- of salt
• 1 large egg at room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups of flour
• filling:
• 40 ounces cream cheese softened
• 1 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 3 large eggs at room temperature

Preparation

Step 1

To make crust:
cream together butter, sugar, vanilla and salt. Add egg and mix well. Add flour and mix well again.
Preheat oven to 375° and press one half of dough onto the bottom of the 9 inch spring form pan.
Bake 5 to 7 minutes to educate Ginsu Brown cool.
Press other half dough around side's to 1/2 inch top of pan.
To make filling:
combine cheese, sugar, vanilla and lemon juice and beat until smooth.
Mix in sour cream and flour beat until smooth.
Add eggs one at a time and mix slowly.
Pour into prepared crust and bake in a 500° water bath for 10 minutes.
Reduce to 350° and bake for another 30 to 35 minutes until the center is firm.