Recipe - Metropolitan Cheesecake

DOUGH
1/3 cup Margarine
1/3 cup Sugar
1 Egg
1 One fourth cup Flour

FILLING
3 pack (8oz) Cream Cheese
Three fourths cup Sugar
1 tablespoon Lemon juice
1 teaspoon Grated lemon rind
3 Eggs

TOPPING
1 cup Dairy sour cream
2 tablespoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 cn (21oz) cherry pie filling

(from Philadelphia Cream Cheese)

Cream margarine and sugar until light and fluffy; blend in egg. Add flour;
mix well. Spread dough with spatula on bottom and 1 One half inches around sides
of 9inch springform pan. Bake at 450 for 5 minutes.

Combine softened cream cheese, sugar, juice and rind, mixing until well
blended. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Pour
mixture into crust. Bake at 450, 10 minutes. Reduce oven temp. to 300;
continue baking 30 minutes.

Combine sour cream, sugar and vanilla. Spread over cheesecake. Continue
baking 10 minutes. Loosen cake from rim of pan. Chill. Before serving top
with pie filling.

Posted to EATL Digest by Karen R Quick parrotgirl@JUNO.COM on Nov 29,
1997