How do you make a cheesecake?!
Answers: Take a cake, put some cheese in it
Go to a recipe site, one like "allrecipes.com", it's a great site with step by step instructions and comments from other people who have made it.
http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/rec...
very easy recipe
There are soooo many cheesecake recipes. Here are a few I posted here a few hours ago to the very same question.
Here's one that's been in our family for years:
DINAH SHORE CHEESECAKE
CRUST:
1 3/4 c. graham cracker crumbs
1/4 c. finely chopped walnuts
1/2 c. melted butter
FILLING:
2 (8 oz.) pkgs. Philadelphia cream cheese
3 eggs
1 c. sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
3 c. sour cream
Mix crust ingredients. Remove 3 tablespoons for topping. Press remaining on bottom and up sides of 9" spring form pan.
Combine eggs, cheese, sugar and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Blend in sour cream.
Pour into crust. Top with reserved crumbs. Bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour. Chill 4 to 5 hours before serving.
I also make an amazing chocolate capuccino cheesecake with a chocolate crust and whipped cream on top when it's served, but the recipe's a bit labor-intensive. Have been making it for years as well. People go nuts over it. I got the recipe originally from the AllRecipes recipe site. Here's the link for that one. It's a-mazing!!
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-C...
Buy some cream cheese and look at the recipe on the package.
2 blocks of cream cheese room tempature
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
zest from a lemon
16 oz sour cream
dash of vannilla
half stick butter
1 package of graham crackers.
Crush the crackers and melt the butter.
Mix the cracker with the butter.
Press into the bottom of a springform pan coming 1 inch up the side, place in the fridge,
Cream cream cheese with a mixer then add remaining ingredients, mix to combine bake at 350 in a water bath for 45 minutes or until slightly jiggly.
I have complex and tasty recipes and I have simple and tasty recipes. I use the simple and tasty one now. One graham cracker pie crust. Mix 2 pkg of cream cheese with 1/2 c. sugar until creamy. Add 2 eggs and 1 tsp of vanilla. Blend until incorporated. Pour into pie crust. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Cool for 1 hour. Refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight (I always refrigerate it overnight). Add fruit topping before serving....... ta da!!!!!!