Baked Cheese Cake (Original New York Style)

Ingredients for Baked Cheese Cake:

For Crust:

Plain biscuits crumbs 1-1/2 cups
Ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp
Melted butter 1/3 cup
Ground walnuts 1/2 cup

For Filling:
Cream cheese 600 gm
Sugar 1-1/3 cups
Eggs 5
Cream 16 ounces
Lemon juice 1 tbsp
Flour 1/4 cup
Vanilla essence 2 tsp

METHOD:

For Crust: Combine the plain biscuit crumbs, ground walnuts and cinnamon in a bowl. Mix in melted butter.
Press the crumb into a greased 9 inch spring form tin.
Press the crumb mixture into the bottom of the pan and about 2/3 the way up the side.
Put the crust in your freezer until the filling is done.

For filling: Beat the cream cheese until light and fluffy.
Add the sugar a little at a time and continue beating until creamy.
Add one egg at a time and beat after each egg.
Add flour, vanilla and lemon juice, mix well.
Add the cream and beat well.
Pour cream cheese mixture into the spring form pan.
Bake at 180 degrees in a preheated for one hour and 15 minutes.
When time is up, turn oven off, leave in oven for one hour.
Remove from oven and let cool then refrigerate overnight.

Baked Cheese Cake (Original New York Style) by Zarnak Sidhwa