Farmers Cheese Cherry Cheese Cake Recipe

How to make it

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• Butter a 9 inch springform pan
• Dust with leftover cake or cookie crumbs or finely chopped nuts
• Beat the farmers cheese with hand electric mixer med speed to make smooth as possible.
• Add sugar, vanilla and eggs and beat low speed to make mixture creamy and smooth
• It should be thick and creamy
• Blend in sour cream
• Blend in the cornstarch.
• Place 1/2 of batter in pan
• Place canned filling in a bowl
• Remove cherries with your fingers, shaking off excess filling and scatter cherries here and there over filling as many as you prefer
• Place arefully the remaining cheese cake batter over cherries
• Repeat adding cherries on top of batter here and there ,reserving any cherry filling and some cherries which will be used for the topping
• Bake cheesecake in a 300F oven 1 - 1 1/2 hrs OR until top jiggles like a custard
• Mix enough sour cream with remaining cherry filling, sugar and vanilla to taste and carefully spoon over top of cheesecake, spreading carefully and gently
• Return to oven to bake 1/2 hour moreORr until sour cream topping appears set
• Remove cake from oven, cool on rack and then chill overnight before cutting and serving
• Carefully slice cake with sharp serated knife, wiping knife clean after each cut
• Serve cake with adding cherry pie filling, vanilla ice cream or even a dollop of whiped cream if desired
• I hope you enjoy this dessert I recreated from my childhood memories!!!

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