Baked Lemon Dream Cheesecake Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
- 6 tbsp Butter
- ¼ cup Sugar
Filling:
- 226 gm Cream Cheese
- 1 cup Sugar
- ½ cup Heavy Whipping Cream
- ¼ cup Lemon Juice
- 2 tbsp All-Purpose Flour
- 1 tbsp Grated Lemon Zest
- 2½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 tsp Lemon Extract
- 10 drops Yellow Food Color
- 5 Eggs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°. In a small bowl, combine cracker crumbs, butter and sugar. Press onto bottom and 1 to 2 in. up the inside of a greased 10-in. springform pan. Place pan on a baking sheet. Bake 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in cream, lemon juice, flour, lemon zest, extracts and, if desired, food coloring. Add eggs; beat on low speed just until combined. Pour into crust. Return pan to baking sheet.
- Bake 55-65 minutes or until center is almost set. Cool on a wire rack 10 minutes. Carefully run a knife around edge of pan to loosen; cool 1 hour. Refrigerate overnight. Remove side of pan.