Holiday Cheesecake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/4 lb. chopped candied fruit
2 lb. cream cheese, softened
1/2 c. heavy cream
4 eggs
1 3/4 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/3 c. graham cracker crumbs

Preparation

Coat bottom of 8-inch spring-form pan with graham cracker crumbs.
Mix cream cheese, cream, eggs, sugar and vanilla until well blended.
Add candied fruit.
Pour into spring-form pan and bake in pan (13 x 9-inch), filled halfway up with water at 300\u00b0 for 2 hours.
Turn oven off after 2 hours, but let cheesecake sit in oven for 1 more hour.
Cool, then refrigerate.