#3199 - Two Cheese Cheesecake

(by Shirley McNevich)

2 TBSP graham cracker crumbs
4 eggs
2 cups small curd cottage cheese
2 - 8oz. Philadelphia cream cheese (softened)
2 cups Breakstone's sour cream
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup butter (melted)
1/3 cup cornstarch
2 TBSP vanilla

Grease a 9" springform cheesecake pan. Sprinkle the graham cracker crumbs over the bottom of the pan. In a mixer add eggs and cottage cheese--beat. Add cream cheese--beat. Add sour cream and white sugar--beat. Add melted butter, cornstarch and vanilla--beat until smooth. Pour batter into the cheesecake pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 75 minutes, then turn off the oven (but DO NOT open the oven door) and let the cheesecake remain in the oven for one additional hour. After one hour, remove cheesecake from oven and cool completely. Refrigerate until cold.