Here is an awesome recipe for cheese cake that you will have no trouble getting anyone to eat. You may have to guard it even.
CHEESE CAKE
2 8 ounce packages of cream cheese at room temperature (3 packages if you want to put a cream cheese topping on this cheese cake).
1 cup of sugar
1 tablespoon of flour
1 tablespoon of corn starch
4 whole eggs plus 1 egg yolk
1 15 ounce low fat ricotta cheese
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon lemon extract and zest of one lemon or orange.
2 rows of Keebler Sandies simply shortbread cookies. (not the ones with nuts).
Crush the cookies in a food processor, or use a rolling pin to crush them. Press into bottom of spring form pan and bake about 15 minutes at 350 degrees. No need to add butter or sugar to these cookies, but if you use a different brand of cookie you will need to add melted butter.
Cream the cheese till smooth and add sugar and the two tablespoons of flour. Add eggs one at a time. Then add ricotta cheese and sour cream, salt, vanilla extract and zest.
Pour on top of baked, cooled cookie crust. Bake at 300 degrees for one hour then turn oven off but don't open the door. Let cake continue to cool down slowly in oven for one hour. Remove and cool completely. Refrigerate overnight or at least five house. Loosen with knife first, then remove from spring form pan.
For a topping, you can beat an 8 oz. cream cheese (room temperature) with a little whipping cream to easy spreading consistency, and cover the top.