Ingredients
Cheesecake
Crust:
1 c flour
1/4 c sugar
1 tsp lemon zest
1 slightly beaten egg yolk
1/4 tsp vanilla
Combine flour, sugar, and zest. Cut in butter as you would for pie crust. Mix vanilla into yolk and add making a soft dough. Pat 1/3 into the bottom of a 9" springform pan and bake at 400 for 6 min. Cool. Attach sides of pan and pat in the rest of the dough.
Cheese Filling:
5 - 8 oz packages of cream cheese - softened at room temperature
1 3/4 cu sugar
3 tbsp flour
3/4 tsp lemon zest
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp vanilla
5 large eggs
2 egg yolks
1/4 c heavy cream
Beat cream cheese until fluffy. Combine sugar, flour, lemon zest, salt, and vanilla and add to cream cheese. Add eggs one at a time; beating well after each addition. Gently stir in cream and pour into pan. Bake 500 for 5-8 minutes (top of cake should be golden). Reduce heat to 200 and bake for 1 hour. Cool in pan for 3 hours. Best if let to sit for 24 hours before serving. Enjoy~!
Preparation
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