Cheese Cake

Ingredients:

Cake
2 - 8 oz cream cheese
1 - 16 oz sour cream
5 -  eggs seperated
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vannilla
1 tsp lemon

Crust
8 Zweiback cookies
1 tbsp butter

Crush Zweiback cookies into crumbs.  Melt butter and mix.  Grease a 9" spring pan.  Spread crumbs evenly in the bottom.

In a large bowl cream 2 pkgs of cream cheese and sugar.  Mix in egg yolks one at a time. Add sour cream, vanilla, lemon juice and beat till smooth and creamy.

In a seperate bowl beat egg whites till stiff and forms peaks.  Fold the egg whites into the batter.  Pour into pan.

Preheat oven to 350.  When oven is heat reduce heat to 325 and place cake in ontop of a 9" pie tin filled with water.  (or place a pan of water on the lower rack)
Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes then start lowering the heat 25 degress every 10-15 minutes.  Once you hit 200 degrees turn the oven off and leave the cake in for 1 hour.  Then open the door and let cool to room temp.  DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR BEFORE IT IS DONE.

No comments: