Recipe - Kellis Mounds Cheesecake

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Crust:
2 cup Vanilla wafer crumbs or oreo
1 One half cup Coconut
6 Butter; melted
Mix and pat into bottom and
Of springform pan
Filling:
2 pound Cream cheese; unwrapped and
Microwave for 2 mins on high
5 Jumbo eggs; unshelled and wa
In micro for 25 secs.
1 cup Sugar
One half cup Heavy cream
One fourth cup Cornstarch
1 teaspoon Coconut extract or 1 cup coc
And One half cup coconut
1 cup Almonds; coarsly chopped

Beat cheese until light and fluffy. Add sugar and beat again. Add eggs one
at a time; beating after each. Add cream, cornstarch and extract. Mix well.
Stir in nuts. Pour into pan. Bake at 425 for 15 minutes with a pan of water
on the bottom rack of oven. Reduce temp to 300 and bake 1 hour longer. Run
knife around edge of cake. Cool. Top with melted chocolate and whole
almonds.

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