Recipe#8333

Title: Amaretto 03

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: 21329KAD@msu.edu (Kim Dyer) 
 Subject: Amaretto Cheesecake 
 Message-ID: DD3tM6.3zL@taranto.com 
 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 16:54:06 GMT 

2 cups cookie crumbs
   (vanilla cookies, graham crackers or chocolate cookies
    depending on your preferences. *I* like to use Nilla Wafers or Oreos)
 2 tbs sugar
 1/4 cup melted butter
  
 24 oz. softened cream cheese
 1 1/4 cup sugar
 3 eggs
 1/2 cup liquer (I use Amaretto most of the time, but Baileys is nice too)
  
 1 cup sour cream (Breakstones is best, if you can get it)
 1/3 cup sugar
 1/4 cup liquer you used in cake ...or a companion liquer.
  
 Toss cookies, sugar and butter in a food processor and blend.
 Crumbs should stick together.  If they don't, add a little more
 melted butter.  Pack into bottom and up the sides of a springform
 pan
 Place cream cheese, sugar, eggs and liqueur in a food processor
 and blend until smooth.  Pour into the prepared crust.
 Bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees ... or until filling is firm and
 top is golden brown.
 When cake is cooled you can add topping.
 Combine sour cream, sugar and liqueur in a food processor, and
 blend.  Pour on cake.  Chill for about an hour so it sets up nice.
 Put the cake on your serving plate and remove the springform pan.
 If you want to be really decadent, pour a can of prepared cherry
 pie filling over the whole thing just before serving.