Peppermint Cheesecake
Ingredients:
3 cups crushed vanilla sandwich cookie crumbs
1/2 cup butter, melted
5 (8-ounce packages) cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup flour
4 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 cup crushed peppermint candies (or 2 teaspoons peppermint extract)
Red food dye
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a pan with cooking spray.
2. Mix the cookie crumbs and butter together. Press the crumb mixture into the bottom of the pan.
3. Beat together the cream cheese, sugar, flour, eggs and sour cream. Divide the cream-cheese mixture in half.
4. To the first half of the mixture, add in the peppermint candies (or peppermint extract) and the red food dye.
5. Either use folded aluminum foil to create sections in the pan for the red and white portions, and spoon the cream-cheese mixtures into the portions. Alternatively, spread the red cream-cheese mixture on the white cream-cheese mixture and swirl the two using a table knife.
6. Bake for about 45 minutes or until done.
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