Royal Cheesecake Recipes

ROYAL CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Crust Using a pastry blender or 2 knives cut cold margarine into flour, baking powder and sugar until pieces are the size of peas.
• Stir in sour cream, egg yolk& salt.
• Form into a ball& refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
• Roll out into a circle to cover bottom& halfway up sides of a well-greased, 9 inch springform pan (you can also do this with your hands).
• Filling Beat egg yolks until light, adding half the sugar.
• Stir in remaining ingredients except egg whites, remaining sugar, and cherry pie filling.
• Beat egg whites, gradually adding remaining sugar.
• Beat until able to form stiff peaks.
• Fold egg white mixture into cheese mixture.
• Pour into crust.
• Bake in a preheated 350° oven for 45 minutes.
• When cool, spread with a can of cherry pie filling.
• Refrigerate.

PHILADELPHIA CHOCOLATE ROYALE CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Crust: Mix together cookie crumbs, sugar and butter; press into the bottom of a 9" springform pan.
• Bake@ 325 degrees for 10 minutes.
• Filling: Mix together cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with an electric mixer until well blended.
• Add chocolate, liqueur and eggs; mix just until blended.
• Pour over crust.
• Bake at 325 for 55-60 minutes or until center is almost set if using a silver springform pan (bake at 300 degrees for 60-65 minutes or until center is almost set if using a dark nonstick springform pan).
• Run knife or metal spatula around the rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing the rim of pan.
• Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.

ROYAL MARBLE CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Preheat Oven to 400 degrees.
• Melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler, over hot water.
• Combine 3/4 cup flour, 2 tablespoons sugar and salt.
• Cut in butter until particles are fine.
• Stir in 2 tablespoons chocolate.
• Press into the bottom of a 9 inch springform pan.
• Bake for 10 minutes.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream 1 cup of sugar and the cream cheese.
• Blend in 1/4 cup flour and the vanilla extract.
• Add the egg yolks and beat well.
• Blend in the sour cream.
• In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form.
• Fold the beaten egg whites into the cream cheese mixture, making sure it is thoroughly mixed.
• Combine the remaining chocolate mixture with 1 3/4 cups of the cream cheese mixture.
• Pour 1/2 of remaining cream cheese mixture into prepared crust.
• Spoon 1/2 of chocolate mixture over the top of the cream cheese mixture in the crust.
• Pour the remaining cream cheese mixture over the top of this and then spoon on the remaining chocolate mixture.
• Cut through the batter with a spatula to create the marble effect.
• Put the cheesecake into the 400 degree oven and immediately turn the oven down to 300 degrees.
• Bake for 1 hour.
• Turn the oven off and let the cheese sit in the closed oven for 1 hour.
• Cool on a rack away from drafts for 2-3 hours.
• Chill at least 6 hours before serving.
• To cut, use a wet, hot, sharp knife.