Oven Baked
Cheesecake
Recipe submitted by Andrea Maple
Nationality/Ethnicity –
African/American
The Story Behind the Recipe
This
dish can be served at all holidays and for Sunday dinner dessert. A
family member gave it to me and I have had the recipe for many years.
Ingredients:
-
2 packages (8
oz) Philadelphia Cream Cheese
-
3 eggs
-
¾ cup sugar
-
1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
-
2 graham
cracker pie shells
-
1 cup sour
cream
-
3 tablespoons
sugar
-
1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
-
Topping
(strawberry pie filling or your choice)
Preparation
Directions:
Combine first
four ingredients and pour mixture into both pie shells. Bake in 350
degree oven for 30 minutes. Remove from oven (leave oven on). Cool for
20 minutes.
While pie is
cooling, prepare topping. Mix together sour cream, 3 tablespoons sugar
and vanilla extract. Spread over cheesecake and return to oven for 10
minutes. Remove and let cool. Add topping.
