Today I made a very wonderful and thick Cheesecake, New York Style!!!
It was pretty basic, nothing too fancy.
I used
4-8 oz packs of cream cheese
1.5 cups of sugar
1 cup of sour cream
1 tablespoon of vanilla (ok I used more I love the taste of vanilla)
1/4 cup of flour
4 eggs
lemon zest (no measured amount I just did it to taste)
3/4 cups of milk
Crust
Crushed chocolate chip cookies ( I already had some dough I made at some other point laying around!)
3 tablespoons of butter
Topping
Fresh strawberries (its your call as to how many you want! I used a whole pint I believe)
A few tablespoons of sugar
Recipe
Preheat your oven to 350 F
Probably wanna start at the crust first.
I crushed the cookies for a good while...then I got tired of doing that so I put em in the food processor for a few seconds til they were nice and pulverized.
Added the butter to them and made a nice sticky crust
Then I pressed it into my spring form
Next step: Le filling!
So I started off with SOFTENED cream cheese ( leave it out a while)
I creamed it with the butter, and dont whip the hell out of it. Just enough to get it all mixed.
Add in the sour cream mix it good enough to get everywhere!
Then the flour then vanilla same as before just enough to get it incorporated!
After that add the egss, one at a time. Mix one in all the way then add the next.
Finally put a bit of lemon zest into it. As much or as little as you want but no more than 1/2 lemon's worth. It starts to have a coconut texture
Pour the filling into the spring form and pop that sucker into the oven for an hour.
After that hour turn the oven OFF but leave the cake in the oven and leave it in there for 6-7 hours.
Yes yes yes! I know its forever but do it! I made this at like 5 in the morning so I just went back to bed.
The topping
After you put the cake..or pie or whatever into the oven, cut up the strawberries or whatever fruit(s) you choose to use. It doesnt matter how you cut em up I just sliced mines. Not too small cause I didnt want them all mushy. sprinkle them with a nice amount of sugar....I got a little crazy with it! Let it sit on the counter, covered in a bowl and it will soften and some of those nice natural juices will come out! I took it a step farther and put 1/4 cup of the strawberries through the food processor then added it back to my sugared strawberries.
Refrigerate it for a few hours before serving
Once your cheesecake it all done go ahead top it with your fruit and Serve it up!
