Thick and creamy oven-baked cheesecake topped with a fresh cherry topping!
Sometimes when you go through old files, you come across things that you made months, sometimes years ago, and realized you forgot to blog about it! Such is the case with this New York Style Cheesecake with Fresh Cherry Topping!
Recently, when putting away some of our things in the office and cleaning out boxes, I came across my memory sticks that I had saved all my food photos on. When I saw this cheesecake I realized I had never blogged it!
I had made this cheesecake when my brother was visiting 2 years ago. Actually, just a little more than 2 years! I had just bought the cherry pitter and cherries were on sale in a big way at that time. This is around the same time I made my Black Forest Brownies!
This cheesecake was so good that when I reminded my dad that I had made it for them when they were visiting, he actually remembered it! This is my go-to recipe anytime I want to make a baked cheesecake. I love the texture and flavor of a baked cheesecake so much!
You can make this any time of the year and use whatever seasonal fruit you can get, thicken it up with a little sugar and cornstarch and top the cheesecake off. Or, you can eat it without the topping! If I were making one right now, I would probably put some cinnamon-spiced apples and some salted caramel drizzle. Oh my, just saying that makes me want to make it!
New York Style Cheesecake
Thick and creamy oven-baked cheesecake topped with a fresh cherry topping!
Ingredients
for the crust
- 15 sheets of graham crackers crushed
- 2 tablespoons butter melted
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
for the filling
- 4 8 ounce packages cream cheese, softened
- 1 ¾ cups granulated sugar
- ¾ cup almond milk
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- ¼ cup flour
for the Fruit Topping
- 2 cups of your favorite fruit
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- ¼ cup water
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9 inch spring form pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, mix graham cracker crumbs with melted butter and tablespoon sugar. Press into bottom of spring form pan.
- Bake crust for 13 minutes, or until lightly browned. Remove from heat.
- While crust is baking, in a large bowl, mix
cream cheese with sugar until smooth. Blend in milk, then eggs, adding 1
egg at a time mixing well after each addition. Mix in sour cream,
extracts, and flour until smooth. - Pour filling into prepared crust. Bake in
preheated oven for 1 hour. Turn the oven off and let cake cool in oven
with door closed for 5-6 hours. Chill in refrigerator until serving. - To make fruit topping, place fruit and sugar in
sauce pan over low heat. Cook until sugar dissolves and fruit juices
begin to release. Simmer 5 minutes. - Add cornstarch to cold water. Bring
fruit mixture to a slow boil and quickly stir in cornstarch. Continue to
stir and cook for 1 minute. Remove from heat, cool. Top cheesecake with
fruit topping prior to serving.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 337kcalCarbohydrates: 58gProtein: 5gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 81mgSodium: 140mgFiber: 1gSugar: 43g
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Lorelee
Your cheesecake looks good, but there is no sugar in the base of the cake, only four. All other cheesecakes have sugar in them. Is this a typo? I am in the middle of making your cheesecake and not sure how much sugar to add, and does the flour get omitted?
Shelby
Hi Lorelee, there should be 1-3/4 cups sugar in the cheesecake batter.
Life Tastes Good
I'm drooling all over my keyboard! This looks amazing, and I wish I could gobble it up right now 🙂
Pam
This is cheesecake perfection
From Valeries Kitchen
I really don't know how you could forget about this cheesecake. I think I'd be dreaming about it for days afterward! I love fruit toppings, especially cherry, on my cheesecake!
R Yerkes
I love the addition of almond milk! We love cheesecake over here!
Renee Paj
Oh wow. That looks like the perfect cheesecake! How could you have forgotten about it? lol
Carlsbad Cravings
Always so fun to discover old recipes! I LOVE cheesecake and this looks delicious, especially with that cherry topping!
Mary Ellen
This cheesecake looks devine and the cherry topping is one I have to try soon!
Patsy K
That is a gorgeous cheesecake! I'm so glad you found the photo and shared the recipe! Yum!
The Food Hunter
I need to make more cheesecakes...starting with this one.
marye @ restless chipotle
mmmmm.... cheesecake!!
RJ Flamingo
I love a good cheesecake, too, and this is a great recipe! I still have mangoes... 😉
Sherri Jo
oh Shelby! This looks divine!!