New York Cheesecake?!?!?!?

[Dackel Clarence]

Hey,

searchin' for a good recipe to make New York Cheesecake.

Found a lot from some baking websites, but which is good to be recommended???

Thanks!

[EdieBird]

Mmmm, Cheesecake...the perfect food!

My sister and I found a few recipes a while back...this one http://www.kraftfoods.com/Philly/main.aspx?s=recipe&m=recipe/knet_recipe_display&recipe_id=51183 is really good, and this one http://www.dianasdesserts.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/recipes.recipeListing/filter/dianas/recipeID/600/Recipe.cfm too, though we haven't tried it yet.

Hopefully this helps!

[Dackel Clarence]

Thank you!

In each recipe I found, these Graham Crackers/Cookies are required. They're not available here. Can I use simply "Leibniz Butterkeks" (if unknown: butter cookie)???

[FourOrchards]

Sorry, I don't have a tired and true recipe for Cheese cake...I usually just buy them. :blush:
As for the crust...I would think any type of cookie (without filling) could be used in place of Graham crackers. If you use a sweet cookie...just omit the sugar and crush them and mix them with the melter butter and press into the bottom of the pan. I'm sure it would be a great alternative!

[SleepiTune]

Hmm...I'm glad you asked! I have never made cheesecake but this has inspired an idea...yum!

[Lambygyrl]

Here is my recipe, everyone LOVES it. Very easy to make... I'm sorry I can't remember the metric conversions! Or exactly what every ingredient is in German... Your English is so good, you probably know them anyway. And the gas marks... I think it would be gas mark 3, or 160 Cel. would equal 325 Farh.

In place of the graham crackers, I would suggest a butter cooker or a shortbread cookie... all crushed up. I think one called Karamel geback (sorry for the bad spelling!) would be nice. Some pineapple sauce or strawberry sauce on the side for this cake is fantastic. Even with fresh strawberries...

NY Cheesecake

Graham cracker crumbs
1 lb. ricotta cheese
2 8-oz cream cheese, softened
1 and ½ cup sugar
4 eggs, slightly beaten
1/3 cup cornstartch
2 tsp. vanilla
2 Tblsp. Lemon juice (from fresh lemons)
½ c. melted butter
1 pint sour cream

Grease 10" springform pan, dust with graham cracker crumbs. (I use butter to grease the pan) Put ricotta cheese in large bowl. Add cream cheese. Beat with mixer on high until blended and creamy. While beating on high, add sugar, then eggs. Then turn mix to low speed, add cornstarch, lemon juice. Turn mixer to high and add butter and sour cream. Pour into pan. Bake in preheated 325 degree oven for about 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until cake is firm around edges. Turn oven off. Let cake sit in oven for 2 more hours, then remove cake from oven. Cool on counter and remove pan & chill.

[Dackel Clarence]

Wow, sounds real good! Think I'll try it.

Instead of cornstarch I usually use starch, cornstarch isn't available, just cornwheat. Works as good as cornstarch - tested in several Boston Cream Pies :D If I review the items not available to us, thinkin we're living in a developing nation :D :D :D :D :D

[Dackel Clarence]

Ok, fresh baked from german oven :D :D :D :D

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[longtimecouple1]

That looks wonderful, I want to reach right in and taste it.
What a great looking cheesecake, what did you wind up using as the crust?
Eileen

[Lambygyrl]

:wahooo: Markus that looks FANTASTIC !!! It certainly looks deeeeelish. :D

Hmmmm assuming you have cut into it by NOW, how was it?

[Suzanne R]

What a GREAT-looking cheesecake! I'll bet it tasted better than it looked, right?? Yummmm - good job.

[andy&abby]

Yum is right! It looks fantastic.

[kassiegirl 2]

WOW that looks really yummy!!! How was it?? I have to go by others tastes of high calorie things because I am on a diet!!:D:D:D

[Dackel Clarence]

what did you wind up using as the crust?
Eileen

Due to unavailabilty of that Graham Wafers each recipe I found out requires I used Leibniz Butterkeks (simply shortbread).

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I don't know the taste. Will be served today for coffee. I was wondering Americans enjoys such cakes as a dessert?!?!?!? Here in Germany souch calorie bombs are served for coffee :D

[Lambygyrl]

Butterkeks are good.... yes we serve Cheescake for dessert... with fresh strawberries or blueberries. Even plain. My friend's husband LOVES it for breakfast with coffee!

[Orchid Crazy]

Your cheesecake came out beautifully! They can be a challenge to bake properly as often crack which doesn't change the taste, but alters the appearance. Yours looks just perfect!

[sherlocksmom]

It looks like it turned out wonderful.

Did you use a water bath to keep from cracking? I've always made cheesecakes but never used the water bath that the TV cooks are recommending nowdays.

SherlocksMom

[Orchid Crazy]

I have an absolutely wonderful pumpkin cheesecake that I make. It tastes fantastic and I don't even care for pumpkin. I've tried the water bath, slow cooking, slow cooling, being careful with the cream cheese and egg additions and a few other tips I've read online. It still cracks. I think some cheesecake recipes are just more prone to cracking, but maybe that's because with those of mine that do crack, I haven't found the answer yet. It is the only cheesecake I make that cracks every single time i make it.

[Lambygyrl]

This NY Cheesecake recipe is the only one I found that doesn't crack. If you leave it in the oven at 325 took long, it will crack. I also think maybe it doesn't crack b/c it has butter -- maybe keeps it moist. I make another one that is called Praline cheesecake, and its made with 3 blocks of cream cheese... cracks every time.

[Orchid Crazy]

Wonder if that is the key ingrediant to affect the cracking. My pumpkin cheesecake calls for at least 3 blocks of cream cheese as well. I can't wait for an excuse to try your recipe!

[Dackel Clarence]

I'm self-wondering about that appearance! It tasted great! At the moment i'm fed up with those ordinary german cakes for afternoon coffee.

Recipe requires room-temperatured cream cheese - took it off fridge minutes before falting in. Eggs should be room-temperated, even minutes before taken off the fridge :D

Water bath???? For what???

[Lambygyrl]

I'm so glad that you enjoyed the cake! Yes I forgot to tell you about the room temperature stuff fior the cream cheese & eggs... but I see you are a great baker, so you knew all about it anyway... :Sun2:

Sometimes when you bake a cheese cake it calls for a large pan on water on the shelf below... the water heated makes moisture in the oven and keeps the cake moist.

The water bath thing is a really large pan of water, and when you make flan your flan pan goes in it in the oven. I've only done this thing for making flan.