Margarita Cheesecake
From pinkpasta 16 years ago
- 55 minutes to make
- Serves 10
Cheesecake made with Margarita ingredients: tequila, orange liquor, and lime. The vanilla wafer cookie crust makes it both sweet and tart at the same time. If you like Margaritas, you'll love this! (Food Network)
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup vanilla wafer cookie crumbs shopping list
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted shopping list
- 3 8-ounce packages cream cheese, room temperature shopping list
- 2 cups sour cream shopping list
- 1 1/4 cup sugar shopping list
- 3 tablespoons "Grand Mariner" liqueur shopping list
- 3 tablespoons gold tequila shopping list
- 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice shopping list
- 2 teaspoons grated lime zest shopping list
- 4 large eggs shopping list
- Very thin lime slices (for garnish) shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix cookie crumbs and butter in medium bowl until blended. Press mixture onto bottom and 1-inch up sides of 9-inch diameter spring form pan with 2 3/4-inch high sides. Refrigerate while preparing filling.
- Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese in large bowl until fluffy. Add 1 cup sour cream, 1 cup sugar, Grand Mariner, tequila, lime juice, and lime peel, and beat until well blended. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
- Pour filling into crust. Bake until center is softly set, about 50 minutes. Maintain oven temperature. Mix remaining 1 cup sour cream, 1/4 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon lime juice in small bowl. Pour over cheesecake. Using spatula, smooth top. Bake cheesecake 5 minutes longer. Transfer pan to rack and cool completely. Refrigerate until well chilled, at least 4 hours or overnight. Run knife around pan sides to loosen cake. Remove pan sides. Garnish cake with lime slices.
- Serves 10 - 12
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Love this. This would please a lot of people in my family, combining their favorite drink with a cheesecake is a winning dish in my book! Hooray!
notyourmomma
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I love the drink so know the cheesecake would be devine...
zena824
in Somewhere, USA loved it
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wow i love this one too i love cheesecakes my down fall ........yum.................high 5
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