Ingredients
Dough Crumbs
- 7/8 cup (1 3/4 sticks) butter
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
Cheese Filling
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 4 containers 9% soft cheese (I use Tnuva or Norman's)
- 1 1/4 cups confectioners sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350° F.
- In a bowl, combine all the ingredients for the dough crumbs until the mixture is crumbly.
- Press two-thirds of the mixture into the bottom and sides of a 9 ½ - inch springform pan to form and even crust.
- Bake until golden, about 25 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
- In a baking pan, bake the remaining one-third of the dough crumbs for 25 minutes.
- Transfer the baked crumbs from the pan to a sealable plastic bag and crush to form fine crumbs.
- Set aside.
To prepare the cheese filling
- Whip the heavy cream with the sugar.
- Set aside.
- Beat the soft cheese with the confectioners’ sugar and vanilla sugar.
- Fold gently into the heavy cream.
- Pour the mixture over the baked crust and sprinkle with the fine crumbs.
- Refrigerate for at least 12 hours before serving.