Lemon Cheesecake

Name: Lemon Cheesecake
Yield: Serves 12 to 16
Ingredients: 5 ounces, Nabisco Barnum's Animal Crackers or Social Tea Biscuits; 3 tablespoons, granulated sugar; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted and kept warm; 1 1/4 cups, granulated sugar (8 3/4 ounces); 1 tablespoon, grated lemon zest; 1/4 cup, lemon juice; 1 1/2 pounds, cream cheese, (three 8-ounce packages), cut into rough 1-inch chunks and left to stand at room temperature 30 to 45 minutes; 4 , large eggs, room temperature; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1/2 cup, heavy cream; 1/3 cup, lemon juice; 2 , large eggs; 1 , large egg yolk; 1/2 cup, granulated sugar (3 1/2 ounces); 2 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes and chilled; 1 tablespoon, heavy cream; 1/4 teaspoon, vanilla extract; pinch, table salt

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2003, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

SERVES12 to 16

TIME2¼ hours, plus 3½ hours cooling and 4 hours chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Pairing citrus with cream cheese for our best lemon cheesecake recipe required finding the perfect balance of juice, zest, and sugar so that the citrus flavor would be neither too fleeting nor too harsh. Lemon curd on top of the cake gave o...

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