6 Step Cheesecake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 egg, plus
• 1 egg yolk
• 6 -12 vanilla wafer cookies (1-2 per cupcake depending on cupcake size or 3/4 box crushed wafers for full size pie crust)
• canned cherries in syrup (optional)

Recipe

• 1 place 1-2 vanilla wafers in bottom of each cupcake baking cup, if making one large cheesecake crush wafers with spoon and fill bottom of pie plate.
• 2 mix cream cheese with sugar.
• 3 mix in sugar, eggs and vanilla.
• 4 pour into cupcake cups or pie plate.
• 5 bake at 350°f for 15-20 minutes for cupcakes or 25 minutes for pie plate.
• 6 cover cupcakes or full size cake with canned cherries.