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Thick New York Style Cheesecake.

You can have Thick New York Style Cheesecake using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Thick New York Style Cheesecake

1. It's of Crust.
2. You need 1 1/2 cups of crushed graham crackers (about 12).
3. Prepare 5 tablespoons of butter.
4. It's 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar.
5. Prepare 1/8 teaspoon of salt.
6. It's 1/2 tsp of vanilla.
7. Prepare of Cheesecake.
8. Prepare 4 blocks of Philadelphia cream cheese (32 oz, get name brand if possible it makes a world of difference) room temp.
9. Prepare 2 cups of sugar.
10. Prepare 4 teaspoons of vanilla.
11. You need 3 tablespoons of all purpose flour.
12. It's 1 teaspoon of fresh lemon zest.
13. You need 2 teaspoon of fresh lemon juice (do not use bottle doesn’t taste the same).
14. It's 1/4 tsp of salt.
15. You need 6 of large eggs.
16. You need 1/2 cup of sour cream.

Thick New York Style Cheesecake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees, wrap a 9 inch springform pan bottle and outside walls with heavy duty aluminum foil making sure seams covered tightly, spray inside with pam.
2. In a mixing bowl mix crushed graham crackers, melted butter, sugar, salt and vanilla until combined.
3. Press crust mixture on bottom of pan and slightly up edges as even as possible and bake for 10 minutes.
4. Take crust out and turn oven down to 325 degrees.
5. In a mixing bowl beat room temp cream cheese, sugar and flour on medium until smooth. Scrape the sides then add lemon zest, lemon juice, salt and vanilla beating on low until combined. Scrapes sides again adding one egg at a time at low speed until combined, scraping the bowl between eggs if needed. Hand mix in sour cream..
6. In a large roasting pan (disposable are great for this!) place the spring form pan with crust in center, and carefully pour cheesecake batter into the pan. Poor boiling water around roasting pan careful to not get any in the cheesecake pan until the water is 1 inch up the side..
7. Put in oven carefully to not splash any water into cheesecake pan. Bake for 1 hour and 45 minutes. Check cheesecake to be done, should be golden/brown on top and wobble but not liquidy..
8. Remove pan carefully from oven and set to side to cool (keep in water bath) for an hour. Remove from water bath after an hour, remove aluminum foil, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerator overnight (8 hours) before eating.