The Best Cheesecake
Ingredients
Crust:
- 2 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1 stick butter 1/2 cup
- 2 tbsp sugar
Filling:
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 packages cream cheese softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 cup sour cream
Instructions
Crust
- Mix these ingredients and press them into the bottom and up the sides of a 9" spring form pan.
- Place in freezer while making the filling.
Filling
- Beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth and light.
- Beat in eggs, vanilla, and cornstarch.
- Stir in sour cream.
- Pour into crust.
- Bake in oven on 450F for 10 minutes.
- Reduce (leaving the cheesecake in the oven) oven temp to 225F and bake for 45 minutes.
- Turn off oven and allow to cool for two hours in oven with door ajar.
- Run a knife around border of pan and release spring form. Cake is much easier to cut at room temperature before refrigerating.