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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 425°F. | 2. Butter bottom and sides of a 12-inch springform pan. | 3. Sprinkle bottom and sides of well buttered pan with Graham cracker crumbs. | 4. In a large bowl, beat drained ricotta until very smooth. | 5. Gradually add 1 1/2 cups sugar and egg yolks, beating after each addition. | 6. Beat in flour, lemon rind, and vanilla. | 7. In a small bowl, beat cream until cream holds its shape, but is not too stiff. | 8. In a smaller bowl, beat egg whites with remaining sugar until stiff; combine with whipped cream and fold into ricotta mixture. | 9. Pour mixture into prepared pan. | 10. Bake for 10 minutes. | 11. Lower oven temperature to 350°F and bake 1 hour. | 12. Turn off heat and allow cake to cool in oven with door closed (about 3-4 hours). | 13. Remove cooled cake from oven, carefully remove sides of pan, store cake (well wrapped) in refrigerator. | 14. Before serving, lightly sprinkle top of cake with Confectioner's (powdered, 10X) sugar. | 15. Cake may be served chilled or at room temperature. | 16. Note: Center of cheese cake will be lower than the sides when it is cooled. | 17. This is not a defect! | 18. It is supposed to be this way (makes it easier to hold the topping if you choose to use one). | 19. VARIATIONS: Add raisins, chopped citron or chopped maraschino cherries to the batter. | 20. Top cheese cake with crushed sugared strawberries or cherries before serving. | 21. Cover bottom of crumbed pan with drained, sweetened crushed pineapple, applesauce or sliced apples before adding batter to pan. | 22. Pie crust pastry may be used instead of Graham crumbs to line pan. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
milk ricotta cheese	3	lbs	drained	2367.755	41.3677	153.2237	176.6291
sugar	2	cups		1611.96	403.19199999999995	0.0	0.0
egg yolk	8			437.92	4.8824	21.5696	36.0944
purpose flour	1/2	cup	sifted	-	-	-	-
vanilla	1	teaspoon		12.095999999999998	0.5313	0.0025	0.0025
egg white	8			137.28	1.9272	28.776	0.4488
heavy cream	1/2	cup	whipped	204.0	1.6440000000000001	1.704	21.648000000000003
lemon	1/2 - 1	tablespoon	grated rind	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
graham cracker crumb				-	-	-	-
confectioner ' sugar			cooled	-	-	-	-

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