Cranberry Swirl Cheesecake with Sugar Cookie Crust

Name: Cranberry Swirl Cheesecake with Sugar Cookie Crust
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters butter or margarine, melted; 532 milliliters Bordeaux cookie crumbs; 1 Tbsp cornstarch; 680 grams packages cream cheese, softened; 4 larges eggs; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 0 teaspoons ground cloves; 237 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 8 servings Garnishes: sweetened whipped cream, fresh cranberries, fresh mint; 454 grams whole-berry cranberry sauce

Cranberry Swirl Cheesecake with Sugar Cookie Crust requires around 45 minutes from start to finish. One serving contains 719 calories, 10g of protein, and 45g of fat. This recipe serves 8. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have butter, bordeaux cookie crumbs, ground cloves, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Christmas.

Instructions

Combine cookie crumbs and melted butter; stir well. Press crumb mixture onto bottom and 1" up sides of a lightly greased 9" springform pan.

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Cookie Crumbs

Butter

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Springform Pan

Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

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Oven

Let crust cool completely on a wire rack.

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Crust

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Wire Rack

Position knife blade in food processor bowl.

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Food Processor

Knife

Bowl

Add cranberry sauce and spices; process until smooth. Set aside.

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Cranberry Sauce

Spices

Beat cream cheese at medium speed of an electric mixer until smooth.

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Cream Cheese

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Hand Mixer

Add sugar and cornstarch; beat well.

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Corn Starch

Sugar

Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla.

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Vanilla

Egg

Pour half of batter into cookie crust; spoon 1/2 cup cranberry mixture over batter. Swirl gently with a knife. Top with remaining batter. Spoon 1/2 cup cranberry mixture over cheesecake, and swirl gently with a knife.

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Cookie Pie Crust

Cranberries

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Knife

Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 22

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Oven

Bake 1 hour and 10 minutes.

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Oven

Remove from oven, and immediately run a knife around sides of cheesecake to loosen it from pan. Turn oven off; return cheesecake to oven, and let cool in oven 1 hour.

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Frying Pan

Remove from oven; let cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Chill, uncovered, until ready to serve. (Cheesecake will continue to firm up as it chills.)

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Wire Rack

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Frying Pan

Remove sides of pan.

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Frying Pan

Garnish, if desired.

Serve cheesecake with remaining cranberry mixture, if desired.

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Cranberries