New York Deli Style Cheese Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese
2 c. sugar
8 medium eggs or 7 large eggs
32 oz. sour cream
2 to 3 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. lemon juice
1 1/2 c. ground cinnamon graham crackers

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0.
Have all above ingredients at room temperature.
Cream the cheese.
Add sugar slowly.
Add eggs, one at a time.
Mix well.
Add sour cream, bit by bit, followed by juice and vanilla.
Grease and line spring-form pan with graham cracker mixture.
(For crunchier crust, add 2 tablespoons melted butter.)
Bake for 10 minutes.
Cool, then add cheese mixture for baking.
Bake for 1 hour, then turn oven off.
Leave cake in oven for 1 1/2 hours with oven door cracked open.
Open door all the way and leave cake in for 1/2 hour longer.
(Slow cooling is the secret.)