Cheese cake - New York style

So soft, so delicate, so tasty, so cheese cake ! In New York style.


Ingredients:

• 150g biscuits
• 50g soft butter + another tablespoon to butter the pan
• 600g Philadelphia cheese
• 200g heavy cream
• 75f sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Ingredients for decoration:

• 200ml of heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons of sugar
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
• pomegranate seeds

Directions:

1. Butter a pan, preferable a springform pan.
2. Crash the biscuits using an electric mixer.
3. Mix the biscuits with butter and lay them on the bottom of the springform pan.
4. Mix the Philadelphia cheese with cream and sugar using a mixer.
5. Add the eggs one by one and mix well after each.
6. Add .vanilla extract and mix.
7. Pour the composition on top of the biscuit layer in the pan.
8. Put the pan into a tray with water and let it cook in the oven for 50 min at 150ºC.
9. Either let the cake to cool itself in the oven without opening the oven, or  take it out and using a knife detach easily the cake from the walls of the pan. If it sticks to the walls of the pan, the cake will crack during the cooling time at room temperature.
10. Put the cake in the fridge for 2 hours at least, or preferable over the night.
11. For the top layer, mix  the cream with sugar and vanilla extract and pour it on top of the cake.
12. Decorate with pomegranate seeds.