American Cheesecake- simply the best cheesecake!
Step by step recipe for an amazing cake!
Just a heads up: I use grams and Celsius degrees in all my recipes, as I'm based in Germany.
Ingredients
- 180 g Graham Crackers or biscuits
- 90 g butter
- 1 pinch cinnamon
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 900 g cream cheese
- 250 g sour cream
- 250 g sugar
- 2 Tbsp cornstarch
- 1 whole vanilla
- 1 lemon , juice and zest
- 4 eggs
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 160 °C for a fan oven
- Line the bottom of the spring form pan with baking paper.
- Crush the cookies in the food processor and place in a bowl
- Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat
- Add salt, sugar, and cinnamon to the biscuits.
- Put the butter on top and mix everything together quickly and pour into the prepared spring form pan
- distribute and press firmly with the bottom of a measuring cup
- Bake for 10 minutes
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool and meanwhile start making the cream.
- In the meantime, preheat the oven to 210 °C
- In a large bowl, whisk together the cream cheese, salt, and sugar.
- Scrape the vanilla out of the vanilla bean and add it.
- Add 3 tablespoons of lemon juice and the zest of the lemon.
- Add the cornstarch and stir everything together briefly
- Add one egg at a time, beating until the egg is incorporated into the mixture.
- Add the sour cream and mix until smooth.
- Wrap at least 4 layers of aluminum foil around the bottom of the spring form pan so that no water can flow into the pan.
- Heat water in a kettle
- Put the cream cheese mixture on the pre-baked base and place the spring form pan in the water bath/ water basin
- Careful hot! Add water in the basin (not on top of the cake) and CAREFULLY place in hot oven.
- Bake for 10 minutes at 210 °C
- After 10 minutes, turn the oven down to 100 °C and let it bake for 55 minutes
- Turn off the oven, but leave the cheesecake in the closed oven to cool for about 2 hours
- Remove after 2 hours and chill in the fridge overnight
- Garnish with fresh berries and enjoy
The nutritional values are automatically calculated – I use them as a rough guide myself when I want to keep track.
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