INGREDIENTS
(For the crust)
2 cups crushed vanilla wafers
3 Tablespoon
chopped toasted almonds
4 Tablespoon melted margarine or butter
(For the
filling)
24 oz. low fat cream cheese
2/3 cup sugar
5 Tablespoon
cornstarch
3 eggs
1 egg yolk
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup amaretto
(or any liqueur of your choice)
2 tsp. almond extract (vanilla, if not using
amaretto)
(For the sauce)
(2) 12 oz. packages raspberries, thawed
5
Tablespoon amaretto (optional)
1/3 cup sugar
DIRECTIONS
In a small bowl stir together crushed cookies and chopped almonds. Add butter and stir to combine. Press mixture into the bottom of a greased 9" pan.
For the filling:
In a large bowl combine cream cheese, sugar and cornstarch. Beat until smooth with an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well each time. Add yolk and beat again. Stir in the whipping cream, amaretto and almond extract. Mix well. Pour mixture into the crust. Bake at 400 degrees F. for 10 minutes; lower temperature to 200 degrees F. and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until the center no longer looks shiny. Remove the cheesecake from the oven and run a knife around the inside edge of the pan. Turn the oven off; return the cake to the oven for an additional 30 minutes. Remove from oven and chill for 3 hours or more.
Puree thawed berries in blender, food mill or food
processor and strain through a fine sieve over a wide bowl to remove all
seeds.
Heat puree with sugar till mixed. Remove from heat and add
liqueur. To serve cheese cake pool 1/4 cup of sauce on each plate. Place serving
of cheesecake on sauce. Garnish ideas: toasted almonds, whole fresh or
raspberries, white rose petals. Serve in heart shaped puree pools.
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