THREE CITIES OF SPAIN CHEESECAKE

Cheesecake

Ingredients

  • No cheesecake roundup would be complete without this one, created by Santa Fe's Three Cities of Spain coffeehouse (which closed in the mid-1970s) and our absolute favorite in the creamy category.
  • Active time: 30 min Start to finish: 9 1/2 hr."
  • Crumb Crust:
  • 1 1/2 cups (5 oz) finely ground graham crackers
  • 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • Filling:
  • 3 (8-oz) packages cream cheese, softened
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup sugar
  • For topping:
  • 16 oz sour cream
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

Make Crumb Crust:
Stir together crust ingredients and press onto bottom and 1 inch up side of a buttered 24-centimeter (9-inch) springform pan. Fill right away or chill up to 2 hours.

CHEESECAKE:
Preheat oven to 350 F. (325 F for dark pans).

Make filling and bake cake:
Beat cream cheese with an electric mixer until fluffy and add eggs, 1 at a time, then vanilla and sugar, beating on low speed until each ingredient is incorporated and scraping down bowl between additions.

Put springform pan with crust in a shallow baking pan. Pour filling into crust and bake in baking pan (to catch drips) in middle of oven 45 minutes, or until cake is set 3 inches from edge but center is still slightly wobbly when pan is gently shaken. Let stand in baking pan on a rack 5 minutes. Leave oven on.

Make topping:
Stir together sour cream, sugar, and vanilla. Drop spoonfuls of topping around edge of cake and spread gently over center, smoothing evenly. Bake cake with topping 10 minutes.

Run a knife around top edge of cake to loosen and cool completely in springform pan on rack. (Cake will continue to set as it cools.) Chill cake, loosely covered, at least 6 hours. Remove side from pan and transfer cake to a plate. Bring to room temperature before serving.

Cooks' note:
Cheesecake keeps, covered and chilled, 3 days.

Makes 8 to 10 servings.

Source: Gourmet







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Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: www.epicurious.com/Gourmet - Edited by Meryl
Submitted By: Meryl
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THREE CITIES OF SPAIN CHEESECAKE