New York cheesecake

Dessert · United States classic.

Ingredients

• 85g Butter
• 140g Sour Cream
• 1tbsp Sugar
• 900g Cream Cheese
• 250g Caster Sugar
• 3 tbs Plain Flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons Lemon Juice
• 3 Large Eggs
• 250ml Sour Cream
• 150ml Sour Cream
• 1 tbsp Caster Sugar
• 2 tsp Lemon Juice

Method

1. Continue cooking — Position an oven shelf in the middle of the oven.
2. Preheat the oven — Preheat the oven to fan 160C/conventional 180C/gas 4.
3. Continue cooking — Line the base of a 23cm springform cake tin with parchment paper.
4. Continue cooking — For the crust, melt the butter in a medium pan.
5. Mix together — Stir in the biscuit crumbs and sugar so the mixture is evenly moistened.
6. Bake — Press the mixture into the bottom of the pan and bake for 10 minutes.
7. Continue cooking — Cool on a wire rack while preparing the filling.
8. Continue cooking — For the filling, increase the oven temperature to fan 200C/conventional 240C/gas 9.
9. Mix together — In a table top mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the soft cheese at medium-low speed until creamy, about 2 minutes.
10. Mix together — With the mixer on low, gradually add the sugar, then the flour and a pinch of salt, scraping down the sides of the bowl and the paddle twice.
11. Add ingredients — Swap the paddle attachment for the whisk. Continue by adding the vanilla, lemon zest and juice.
12. Whisk — Whisk in the eggs and yolk, one at a time, scraping the bowl and whisk at least twice.

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