I love cheese cake, its one of my favorite deserts. A delicious slice of cheese cake with raspberry sauce dripping down. So good, my family loves it too!

Ingredients:

Crust

2 cups graham cracker crumbs

8 TB Melted Butter

8 TB sugar

Cake

2 8oz cream cheese (room temperature)

3/4 cup sugar

2 eggs (room temperature)

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Any topping you like ( canned cherries, strawberries etc.)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix crust ingredients and then put in the cake pan. Press the crumb mixture into the cake pan and press down. Cook in the oven for about 5 minutes.
3. Start to mix the cream cheese and sugar until smooth and then add the eggs one at a time and add the vanilla extract. Mix until not clumpy anymore and it is smooth. Room temperature eggs and cream cheese are key to it being smooth.
4. Fill the cake pan, and cook about an hour. You want it to start to be firm, give it a little wiggle and it will move a little in the center its done. Little golden color on top is good. If it starts to crack it is definitely done. You don’t want it to get that point, but it will taste the same and if that happens you can cover it up with a topping so no one will know ;). I’ve been there, cheesecake is easy but finicky.

*optional raspberry or strawberry sauce

Put a pint of berries in a pan with half of a fresh squeezed lemon on top and a 1/4 cup of sugar. let it simmer until it has broken down and you get some juice out of it. About 10 minutes. Let it cool and you have a topping to go on top of your cheesecake.