New York Cheese Cake

This New York Cheese cake recipe was discovered by my gal friends > 10 years ago from the internet which received 5 or 6 stars review. It is very close to Coffee Bean NY Cheesecake and in fact I think it taste even better than that :) The success factor for this recipe lie with the lemon rind for the biscuit base and cream cheese recipe...enjoy!

INGREDIENTS:
Crust
1 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose (plain) flour
slightly less than 1/2 cup white sugar
1 1/2 to 2 teaspoon lemon zest (grated lemon skin)
3/4 cup butter
1 1/2 egg yolks beaten
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence


Cheese Filling
30 oz cream cheese
1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence
3/4 to 1 teaspoon lemon zest (grated lemon skin)
2 1/2 tablespoon all-purpose (plain) flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
slightly less than 1 cup white sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 egg yolks
3 tablespoon heavy wipping cream
1/2 lemon (etxract juice)


DIRECTIONS:
1. To make the CRUST:
- Combine flour, sugar and lemon zest.
- Rub in butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Stir beaten egg yolk with vanilla essence and form into dough.
- Preheat oven to 205 degrees.
- Pat 1/3 of the dough into the bottom of one 9 inch springform pan with the sides removed.
- Bake at 205 degrees for 6 minutes. Let cool then butter sides of pan and attach to bottom.
- Pat the remaining dough evenly on the sides to a height of 2 inches.

2. To make the FILLING:
- Stir cream cheese to soften.
- Beat till fluffy and add vanilla essence, lemon sezt and lemon jiuce
- Mix flour, salt ans sugar together
- Gradually blend above mixture into beaten cream cheese
- Add egg and egg yolk ONE at a time, BEATING WELL after each one.
- Gently stir in heavy cream

3. BAKING
- Pour batter into prepared crust
- Preheat oven to 260 degrees.
- Bake cake at 260 degree for 5 mins or untill the top edge of crust turn golden.
- Reduce heat to 170 degree in water bath and continue to bake for 1 and 1/2 hour or until cake turn golden.
- Leave cake without water bath in the overn (with door close) and oven temperature off for 1 hour before remove from oven.
- Remove cake from oven and cool in pan for at least 3 hours.
- Remove side of pan to serve.