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Sara Lee's Cheesecake

Courses: Dessert
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

  Crust
1/4 lb 113g / 4ozButter or margarine
1   Sugar cookies - (10 ounces) roll to
  Crumbs
1   Unflavored gelatin
1/4 cup 49g / 1.7ozSugar
  Filling
16 oz 454gCream cheese - soft
8 oz 227gSour cream
2 tablespoons 30mlButter
2 tablespoons 30mlCorn starch
2 tablespoons 30mlEggs (large)
1 cup 198g / 7ozSugar
1 teaspoon 5mlVanilla

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F. Place butter in 9" square pan in the oven until butter melts. Combine crumbs with gelatin and sugar. Remove 1/4 c crumbs to use as garnish.

Stir remaining crumb mixture into the melted butter in the pan, patting mixture evenly over bottom of pan.

Bake exactly 8 minutes. Mix until light and fluffy cream cheese and sour cream. Beat in butter, corn starch, eggs, sugar and vanilla.

As soon as crust is baked, put out oven rack without removing pan and pour filling directly over hot crust.

Sprinkle top with reserved crumb mixture and return to bake at 350F for 30 to 35 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean. DO NOT OVER-BAKE.

Let cool 30 minutes before cutting.

Source:
Gloria Pitzer

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