Pecan Cheesecake
From lenora 15 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 12
I found that if you make ice cream with brown sugar it tastes just like butter pecan without the nuts. Here is a cheescake with that butter pecan flavor.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs shopping list
- 2 tbls sugar shopping list
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tbls butter, melted shopping list
- 5 (8 oz) pkgs cream cheese, softened shopping list
- 1 2/3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed shopping list
- 5 eggs shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla extract\ shopping list
- 1 cup pecans, chopped shopping list
- whipped cream, optional shopping list
- Additional pecans, pecan halves shopping list
How to make it
- Combine first 3 ingredients, mixing well.
- Press mixture into the bottom of a 10 inch spring form pan; chill.
- Beat cream cheese with an electric mixer until light and fuffy; gradually add brown sugar, mixing well.
- Add eggs one at time time beating well after each addition.
- Stir in vanilla and 1 cup of chopped pecans.
- Spoon into prepared pan.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour.
- Turn oven off and allow for cheescake to cool in oven for 30 minutes.
- Let cool to room temperature and allow to refrigerate for 8 hours.
- Remove sprinform pan from sides of cake.
- If desired top with whipped cream and garnish top of cake with pecan halves.
- Press additional chopped pecans onto the sides of the cake.
- The recipe came from Southern Living Annual Recipes.
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This sounds decadent. Nothing better than cream cheese and pecans. Yummers and a very high 5.
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