Raisin Cheesecake
From debra47 17 years agoIngredients
- Crumb Crust: shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups graham cracker or digestive biscuits crumbs shopping list
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted shopping list
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar shopping list
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg shopping list
- 1/2 cup dried currants or raisins shopping list
- 1/4 cup + 5 tablespoons all purpose flour shopping list
- 1 pound cream cheese shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar shopping list
- 5 large eggs, separated shopping list
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice shopping list
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind shopping list
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups sour cream shopping list
- 1/8 teaspoon salt shopping list
- confectioners' sugar shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix the crumbs with the melted butter, sugar and then mix in the nutmeg.
- Grease the bottom and partly up the sides of a 9 inch springform pan.
- Make sure the crumbs are smoothly spread across the bottom of the pan and then press them partly up the sides of the springform pan.
- Bake the crust for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.
- Cool before filling.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Mix the raisins with the 1/4 cup flour so that fruits are loose and separated
- You want the raisins to be loosely coated with the flour..
- Put aside any loose flour that falls off the raisins.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the yolks, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each one.
- Add the remaining flour and the lemon juice, lemon rind, vanilla and the sour cream.
- Beat until the mixture is smooth.
- Stir in the raisins.
- Beat the egg whites with the salt until they form stiff peaks.
- Fold the whites into the cream cheese mixture.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared crust and bake for 50 minutes.
- Turn the oven off and leave the cake inside to cool for an additional 40 minutes.
- Remove the cake from the oven and cool to room temperature.
- Dust with confectioners' sugar.
- Chill for about an hour and then serve.
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