Homemade cheese cake for the holidays

Katie Wallner

Ingredients 

  1. Gram crackers
  2. 1/4 cup of melted butter
  3. 2 lbs of Cream cheese
  4. 1 1/3 cups of sugar
  5. 4 Eggs
  6. 1 1/2 tsp of Vanilla extract
  7. Springform pan
  8. Tin Foil
  9. Cookie sheet

Steps

First grind up the gram crackers into fine pieces. Then add a 1/4 cup of melted butter to the mixture. Blend those two ingredients together. Pour the gram cracker mixture into the springform pan. Then press the gram cracker mixture on the base of the pan. Next, place that pan in the fridge for a while so the butter can make the crust layer of the cheese cake stay together. Then in a separate bowl put two lbs of cream cheese and blend that until it is smooth. Then add 1 and 1/3 cups of sugar and four eggs. However, you will want to put one egg in at a time blending it in between. Then add 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract and blend one last time. Finally, take the springform pan out of the oven and pour the cheesecake mixture on top of the crust. Then place tin foil around the pan and place it on a cookie sheet. Fill the rest of the pan half way with water and set the over for 325 degrees and place the cheese cake in for 1 hour. If the cake jiggles when you poke it, turn off the oven. Then let it cool in the oven for 1 hour. Next you will take the cheese cake out of the oven and put it in room temperature and cover it with plastic wrap. Then let it cool in the fridge for 8 hours. When you are finally done waiting 8 hours you can finally enjoy it!