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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 325°F. | 2. Melt ½ cup butter. | 3. Combine graham cracker crumbs and ½ cup melted butter; mix well. | 4. Press graham cracker mixture onto bottom and about 2-1/2 inches up the sides of a 9x3-inch spring form pan. | 5. Sift flour and cornstarch together; set aside. | 6. Melt ½ cup butter; cool. | 7. In mixer, combine ricotta and cream cheese; beat until smooth. | 8. Add sugar ½ cup at a time scraping bowl if necessary to get it all mixed in well; beat for 30 seconds to thicken up after last of sugar is added. | 9. Blend in vanilla, lemon juice, cornstarch, and flour; mix well. | 10. Add sour cream and melted butter; mix well. | 11. Add each egg one at a time, beating each one in well before the other is added. | 12. Beat for 30 seconds scraping bowl well to make sure that all batter is blended properly. | 13. Wrap the outside of the spring form pan in TWO layers of aluminum foil. | 14. Pour batter in to spring form pan. | 15. Place spring form pan into larger roasting type pan and fill roasting pan with water until it comes HALFWAY up the spring form pan’s sides. | 16. Bake for 1 hour, turn oven off and leave it in the oven untouched another 45 minutes. | 17. Your cheesecake is PERFECT when it is very lightly browned and has a 2-3 inch wobbly spot in the middle after baking. | 18. Remove from oven, remove foil, cool completely, then refrigerate over night. | 19. To serve: carefully remove sides of spring form pan, slice and serve cold with topping of your choice. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	1	cup	unsalted	1368.0	62.856	42.744	115.2
graham cracker crumb	2	cups		-	-	-	-
cornstarch	3	tablespoons		91.44	21.9048	0.0624	0.012
cream	2	cups	sour	910.8	21.298000000000002	11.224	89.01
purpose flour	3	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
cream cheese	16	ounces		1338.12	15.876	32.2056	129.7296
ricotta cheese	15	ounces	drained	739.9218	12.9274	47.8823	55.1965
sugar	1 1/2	cups	granulated	479.7	90.012	15.015	7.4879999999999995
egg	4			286.0	1.44	25.12	19.02
lemon juice	1 1/2	1/2		5.0325	1.5784	0.0801	0.0549
vanilla	1	tablespoon		37.44	1.6445	0.0078	0.0078

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.