New York Cheesecake

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 1/2 cups vanilla wafer crumbs
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/3 cup butter, melted
• 4 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3/4 cup half-and-half cream or 3/4 cup milk
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c).
• 2 grease a 9 inch springform pan.
• 3 in a medium bowl, mix vanilla wafers, sugar and cocoa powder with melted butter.
• 4 press onto bottom of springform pan.
• 5 in a large bowl, mix cream cheese with sugar until smooth.
• 6 blend in half & half, and then mix in the eggs one at a time, mixing just enough to incorporate.
• 7 mix in sour cream, vanilla and flour until smooth.
• 8 pour filling into prepared crust.
• 9 bake in preheated oven for 1 hour.
• 10 once the cheesecake has cooled off, chill in the fridge, best if you leave it overnight.
• 11 to prevent the cheesecake from cracking, follow the enclosed tips (from www.allrecipes.com) -
• 12 make sure that your ingredients are around room temperature, not cold, otherwise your batter will be lumpy.
• 13 wrap your springform pan with 2 layers of aluminum foil to prevent water in the bain marie (water bath) from seeping inches
• 14 place your springform pan in a water bath in the oven, filled with 1 inch of very hot water, then proceed to bake as instructed in the recipe.
• 15 right after baking, run a warm or greased knife around the rim of the cake to prevent cracking while cooling.