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Best Homemade Baked Cheesecake

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Ingredients

For crust

  • 1 1/2c graham crackers crumbs
  • 5 tbsp.sugar
  • 113g butter

For Filling

  • 3 (8oz) packages of softened cream cheese
  • 1 1/2C of sugar
  • 4 separated eggs
  • 1 tbsp. lemon juice
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Directions

  1. Mix together the graham cracker crumbs,sugar and melted butter and transfer to a 9" spring form pan.
  2. Make sure to press against the sides and bottom,you can use a cup to do this.
  3. Using an electric mixer,mix together the cream cheese,sugar,4 egg yolks,lemon juice and vanilla.
  4. In separate bowl,beat 4 egg whites until creamy.
  5. Add to the cream cheese mixture,mix all together and pour over the crust.
  6. In preheated oven to 162C,bake for 35 minutes.
  7. Turn off the heat and leave the pan in the closed oven for 1 hr.
  8. Take outof the oven and freeze or refrigerate for several hr.