Southern Living Cheesecake
I wanted a good, basic cheesecake recipe so I called one of my closest cooking mentors and she gave me this little gem. Posting it here for safe keeping!
INGREDIENTS
NutritionCrust
- 1
- 1⁄4
- 2tablespoons brown sugar
Filling
- 3
- 1 1⁄4cups sugar
- 4large eggs
- 1(8 ounce) package sour cream
- 1tablespoon vanilla
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 325.
- Combine graham cracker crumbs, butter, and brown sugar.
- Press into the bottom and up the sides of a 9 inch spring form pan.
- Bake crust for 10 minutes, let cool on wire rack.
- For filling, beat cream cheese at a medium speed of an electric mixer until creamy.
- Gradually add sugar, beating well.
- Add eggs, on at a time, beating after each addition and scraping bottom and sides of bowl as needed.
- Stir in sour cream and vanilla.
- Pour batter into prepared crust.
- Bake for 65 minutes, center will not be completely set.
- Turn oven off; partially open oven door, leaving cheesecake in oven for 1 hour.
- Remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Cover and chill at least 8 hours.