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."
  • CRUMB CRUST:
  • 1 1/2 cups (5 oz) finely ground graham crackers or cookies such as chocolate or vanilla wafers or gingersnaps (I use graham cracker crumbs)
  • 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • 1/3 cup sugar (I use 2 Tbsp)
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • FILLING:
  • 3 (8-oz) packages cream cheese, softened
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup sugar
  • For topping: (I omit this)
  • 16 oz sour cream
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

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 350F.
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: (I omit this)
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.

Gourmet
November 1999







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Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: Gourmet
Submitted By: Meryl
merstarunicorn11@hotmail.com
THREE CITIES OF SPAIN CHEESECAKE