Triple Berry Cheesecake
By: smita
Published: Friday, July 9, 2010 - 8:40am

Ingredients




For the Cheesecake
1 cup vanilla cream sandwich cookie crumbs
1 tablespoon butter
1 1/2 )s pkt(10oz cream cheese@ room temp
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 cup previously prepared berry preserves

Preparation

1 Lets start by making berry preserves. 2 Cook together 1 cup each of strawberries, raspberries & blueberries together with 1 tsp orange zest & sugar. Cook till the fruit is mushy (dont completely mash the fruits). Cook for another 10-15mins & turn off the heat. Dont let it thicken completely. 3 Mix together cookie crumbs & butter. Press firmly to the bottom of the cake pan to form the crust. 4 Beat together cream cheese, eggs, sugar & vanilla extract till creamy. Beat in sour cream. 5 Pour half the creamcheese mixture over the crust. Spoon the berry preserves onto the creamcheese mixture. Top with the remaining cream cheese mixture. 6 Bake in a preheated 300F oven for 1 hr. 7 After 1 hr, remove from the oven & cool completely. Chill & top with berry preserves before serving.