Kelli's Mounds Cheesecake
cheesecakes, nuts
1 crust:
2 cup vanilla wafer crumbs or oreo
1 1/2 cup coconut
6 butter; melted
1 mix and pat into bottom and
1 of springform pan
1 filling:
2 lb cream cheese; unwrapped and
1 microwave for 2 mins on high
5 jumbo eggs; unshelled and wa
1 in micro for 25 secs.
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 teaspoon coconut extract or 1 cup coc
1 and 1/2 cup coconut
1 cup almonds; coarsly chopped
Beat cheese until light and fluffy. Add sugar and beat again. Add eggs one at a time; beating after each. Add cream, cornstarch and extract. Mix well. Stir in nuts. Pour into pan. Bake at 425 for 15 minutes with a pan of water on the bottom rack of oven. Reduce temp to 300 and bake 1 hour longer. Run knife around edge of cake. Cool. Top with melted chocolate and whole almonds.
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