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Deluxe Cheesecake
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Servings: 20
Categories:
Cheesecakes
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Desserts
Ingredients:
-----LIZ JONES-----
-----PASTRY----- 1 1/4
cups
Flour,
all-purpose
3/4
cup
Butter,
softened-1 1/2 stick
1/4
cup
Sugar 1
Egg yolk,
large
Grated peel of 1 sm lemon
-----FILLING----- 5
packages
Cream cheese;softened,
ea 8oz
1 3/4
cups
Sugar 5
Eggs,
large
1/4
cup
Milk 3
tablespoons
Flour,
all-purpose
2
Egg yolks,
large
Grated peel of 1 sm lemon
Directions:
1. First prepare pastry dough: In large bowl, with mixer at low speed, beat flour, butter, sugar, egg yolk and grated lemon peel until well mixed. Shape dough into ball; wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
2. Preheat oven to 400-degrees. Press 1/3 of dough onto bottom of 10" x 2 1/2" springform pan; keep remaining dough refrigerated.
3. Bake crust 8 minutes ot until golden; cool in pan on wire rack. Turn oven control to 475-degrees.
4. While crust is cooling, prepare filling: In large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat cream cheese just until smooth; slowly beat in sugar, scraping bowl often with rubber spatula. Add eggs, milk, flour, egg yolks amd lemon peel; beat 5 minutes, occasionally scraping bowl.
5. Press remaining dough around sides of pan to within 1-inch of top. Pour cream cheese mixture into crust.
6. Bake cheesecake 12 minutes. Turn oven control to 300-degrees; bake 35 minutes longer. Turn off oven; let cheesecake remain in oven 30 minutes.
7. Remove cheesecake from oven; cool completelty in pan on wire rack. Cover and refrigerate at least 4 hours or intil well chilled.
8. When cheesecake is firm, with spatula, loosen pan side from cheesecake and remove loosen cake from pan bottom; slide onto serving plate... Adapted from March 1992, Good Housekeeping...
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