Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake

I feel sad for anyone who has never been to a Cheesecake Factory restaurant. This cheesecake is out of this world! I think you will find the nut crust quite unusual. Sometimes I double the crust portion of the recipe just so I can have a thicker crust.

• Ready In: 3 hrs
• Serves: 8

Ingredients

• crust

• 1⁄4 cup  finely chopped pecans
• 1⁄4 cup  finely chopped  almonds
• 1⁄4 cup  finely chopped walnuts
• 3⁄4 cup  finely chopped  vanilla wafer
• 2  tablespoons  melted butter

• Filling

• 1 1⁄2 lbs cream cheese
• 1 1⁄3 cups sugar
• 5  large eggs
• 16  ounces sour cream
• 1⁄4 cup flour
• 2  teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2  teaspoons lemon juice

Directions

1. Crust: Mix all nuts and vanilla wafer crumbs with melted butter and press into a 9 inch buttered springform pan, trying to line the sides as much as possible about 1 1/2" up the sides of the pan, set aside.
2. Cheesecake: All above ingredients should be at room temperature before your begin.
3. Start by beating the cream cheese until light and fluffy.
4. Keep the mixer on a low setting throughout the beating and mixing process.
5. Add the sugar a little at a time and continue beating until creamy.
6. Add one egg at a time and beat after each egg.
7. When eggs have been mixed into the cream cheese add flour, vanilla and lemon juice, mix well.
8. Add the sour cream last and beat well.
9. Pour cream cheese into the spring pan.
10. Place on the top rack in the middle of a 325 degrees preheated oven for one hour and 15 minutes.
11. When time is up, turn oven off, prop open oven door and leave in oven for one hour.
12. After one hour, remove from oven.
13. Let cool enough before the cheesecake is put into the refrigerator for 24 hours.
14. A cheesecake should season.
15. The wait is worth it.
16. The flavor ripens and becomes enriched.