My all-time favourite dessert is cheesecake, just plain and simple cheesecake! I won’t turn down a multi-flavoured, multi-loaded up cheesecake, but I think a plain, tall and creamy cheesecake is the best. This recipe for Tall and Creamy New York Cheesecake is by far my favourite!
I am celebrating my new and updated blog and the best way to celebrate is with my favourite dessert Tall and Creamy New York Cheesecake! After being on blogger since the start of my blogging days I decided to make the bold move over to wordpress. To say this caused me some anxiety is an understatement. I am not the most tech savvy person, something my family tells me all the time, and their only help is to say “just google it”. So stick with me through this huge learning curve, many wonky mistakes and don’t be afraid to drop me a note if things don’t quite look right.
This is an incredible cheesecake recipe, tall, creamy and smooth. I made this recipe without a crust, but if you prefer a simple graham crust will work great. I love my cheesecake plain but if you like serve it with berries and whipped cream, caramel or even chocolate sauce. My recipe for 5 Minutes Strawberry Sauce is amazing with Tall and Creamy New York Cheesecake! One very important thing when making cheesecake is to have all the ingredients at room temperature or you will have lumps in your cheesecake!! Also be sure to use a 10 inch springform pan. This cake rising quite a bit while baking and will spill over in a small cake pan.
Tall and Creamy New York Cheesecake
Ingredients
- 32 oz cream cheese (4 packages) room temperature
- 5 large eggs room temperature
- 2 cups sour cream room temperature
- 8 tbsp butter room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 2 vanilla beans can substitute 1 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 tsp fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Tightly wrap 2 layers of aluminum foil around the outside of a 10 inch springform pan covering bottom and sides.
- Generously coat inside of pan with butter.
- Preheat oven to 300º F.
- Using an electric mixer with paddle attachment, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth.
- Add eggs one at a time until blended.
- Add sour cream and mix until smooth.
- Add sugar, cornstarch, vanilla and lemon juice, beat until smooth, about 2 minutes.
- Pour into springform pan and place in a roasting pan large enough to prevent sides from touching.
- Place into oven and carefully pour boiling water into roasting pan to reach halfway up sides of springform pan. (be careful not to splash any water onto cake)
- Bake for 2 hours, or until cake is lightly browned on top. My oven is a convection oven, so bake time in regular oven may be longer.
- Remove from water bath (bain-marie), remove foil and cool completely at room temperature before unlatching and removing rim.
- Cover and refrigerate until well chilled (best to leave chill overnight). Cake must be well chilled to set properly.
- Serve plain or with berries and whipped cream or even caramel sauce.
Notes
* be sure to use 10 inch springform pan. Cake will raise while baking and will spill over in smaller cake pan.
Click here for a good video to demonstrate doneness of Cheesecake.
Recipe was adapted from Jim Fobel's Old-Fashioned Baking Book
Nutrition
My recipe for 5 Minute Strawberry Sauce tasty amazing with this cheesecake!
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Hi Laureen,
I have made this recipe 3 times and love it thank you so much. I would love to make a pumpkin cheesecake any suggestions?
Thank you so much Robert, my friend at I am Baker has some great recipes. I haven’t tried this recipe but it looks delicious https://iambaker.net/pumpkin-cheesecake/
Thank you so much Laureen for the recipe. I am going to use it to modify your recipe (which I like much better) and will let you know the outcome.
Hi Laureen thank you so much for the pumpkin cheesecake recipe. I like your recipe better so I will use her recipe to modify your recipe and will tell you my results and modifications if you are interested. Thanks again for replying so fast as always.
Yes Robert I would love to hear back from you about adapting the recipe to a pumpkin cheesecake.
Hi Laureen, I’m back to tell you the results of turning your fabulous New York Cheesecake into a fabulous New York Pumpkin cheesecake. I simply substituted 1 15oz. can pumpkin and 1/4 cup of sour cream for the 2 cups of sour cream in your recipe. I made my own pumpkin pie spice and add 2 tsp. That is all I did and it turned out fantastic. Other then those 2 changes i made it exactly like your recipe. If you ever try this yourself please let me know what you think.
Pumpkin Spice Recipe…3 tablespoons ground cinnamon, 2 teaspoons ground ginger, 2 teaspoons ground nutmeg, 1 ½ teaspoons ground allspice and 1 ½ teaspoons ground cloves.
Fantastic Robert, I will be trying this soon!! I’ll keep you posted.
Hi, Merry Christmas, just a quick question, I have a fan force oven do I reduced the oven 20c to 280f .
Thanks
Hi Linda, are you talking about a convection oven which automatically adjusts oven temperature? I’m not familiar with fan force oven. Do you normally have to make adjustments for temperature?
Made this cheesecake for my family for Christmas. I did add a crust. I have made others before but this was the best I have ever made. My kids thought so too. I made some cherry topping for it. I loved it plain but my kids loved it with the topping. Thank you so much for this recipe. I will be making it again! ☺
So glad you and your family enjoyed the recipe Pam, cherry topping is one of my favourite toppings.
Hi Laureen,
This is my first time leaving a comment on a recipe, but I had to let you know how much my family and I enjoyed your recipe. This is also the first cheesecake I made with my new spring-form pan.
I followed your recipe to the tee, but my oven took a little longer because I don’t have a convection oven. I baked it for 2 1/2 hours and I probably could have left it in a little longer to get the top totally brown like your picture, but I was afraid of over cooking it.
My father wanted an original New York Style Cheesecake without the crust for Christmas and I found your recipe and picture to be the best one to go by and I am so happy that I did. You see I’m not the cook or the baker in my family, my two brothers are, lol, so for them and my father to tell me it was the best cheesecake they have ever eaten made me so happy on Christmas day sitting around the dining room table. That was a big statement because my Dad is 82 and my brothers are 60 and 57 so they both have had a lot of different cheesecakes over the years.
Thank you so much for your recipe and website and making our Christmas dessert one to remember!
Penelope B.
Wow Penelope you seriously made my day with your comment. So ecstatic that you and your family enjoyed the recipe. Grateful to you for taking the time to drop me a comment.
Hi, this cheesecake just looks amazing!
I have two questions, what is the height of the pan?? And can I use yogurt instead of sour cream???
Thank you
I think most springform pans are standard height 2″3/4 inches high. I have not used yogurt instead of sour cream, so can’t really advise on that question, sorry Neda. Hope you enjoy the recipe.
This cheesecake tastes amazing!! I only have 1 problem…when I made it in the 10 in pan
it didn’t rise high as the picture. It rose during cooking as even as the pan and then settlers down to
Half the pan. I don’t know what I did wrkng bc
I am a new cheesecake maker. My 2nd one I
Put in an 9 in pan and watched nervously,
and it rose up at least an inch over the
pan and settled to a good tall size. So can
you help me?
Hi I don’t have an electric mixer. Is it possible to mix the ingredients with a spoon by hand, or don’t you get the same effect?
I think it would be pretty tough to get the batter as smooth as it needs to be, but you can always try and use those mixing muscles!
I could not find my cheesecake recipe and found yours on Pinterest . I made it yesterday it came out awesome! I used vanilla bean and the zest of the lemon, I also had to substitute rice flour for the cornstarch because mine was out of date, it worked out fine, I was afraid because the substitution calls for 6 tablespoons in place of the 2 of cornstarch. This is now my go to cheesecake recipe.
Thank you for sharing and happy new year 🎈
Ann Marie, thank you for trying my recipe. Thrilled you enjoyed it.
This is the best cheesecake I have ever made. Thanks for the recipe.
Thank you Beverly, so glad you enjoyed the recipe. Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
THANK YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL RECIPE!
I made this for Christmas and my family and friends went crazy!
Thank you Amanda, so glad you enjoyed the recipe. Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Do you bake in convection, my oven has both convection and regular?
I bake in convection, it will make the top a bit more brown than regular.
Should the convection temp be 300* when you set it or after it has adjusted from a higher setting?
My oven is like yours and temperature automatically converts to 275º. that is what I bake it at
I made this cheesecake this week and it was AMAZING! Easily the best cheesecake i have ever made or eaten. I️ will never use another recipe as long as i live. My whole family loved it. Not one single crack in it either.
Thank you Valerie, so glad you enjoyed the recipe. Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
If I wanted to add crust, how would I go about it? I really love this recipe but my family wants crust.
I would just add a simple graham crust. Recipe can usually be found on box of graham crumbs
Am I the only one who wrapped tin foil inside the pan…. ugh here’s hoping I didn’t totally fork it up…
I made this cheesecake. It is the most delicious cheesecake I’ve ever had. I took it to our super bowl party and everyone LOVED it. I definitely will be making it again.
That is awesome Kerry, so glad everyone enjoyed it, Thanks for taking the time to drop me a note. Appreciate it.
checking to see if a convection to conventional conversation might equal 25 degrees higher and 30 minutes more baking time. I can’t find conversion online. Anyone? Also, my roasting pan was not much larger than my baking pan, however when I put the water in to the height recommended my cheesecake floated. Anyone have issues with that? I’m baking now.
Hi Annamarie, I’ve never heard of cheesecake floating in a water bath. Was your baking pan tight against the sides of your roasting pan. The cake should have had some space. My convection automatically converts and lowers temp by 25º. So what was the final outcome of your cheesecake?
Thank you for the recipe
We dont have sour cream here, can I use yoghurt instead?
In this case should I raise the amount of suger to beat the acidity of yoghurt?
Thank you for your help
Hi Abeer, I have never made it with yogurt, so I can’t really advise you on how the cake would turn out
I made 2 for the Christmas holiday and this cheesecake was a smashing hit!
Thank you so much Merry-Lynn, so glad you enjoyed the recipe
i am planning on making htis today however i don’t own a roasting pan to put the spring cake pan in to bake in water…..is this a must?
Hi Sue Anne, hot water steam will ensure even baking, thus lessening the likelihood of cracking on top, but I you could always try
I love this recipe! I wandered across it and have began to work with it. I’ve adapted it a bit, but the original is still really good!
I made this for my birthday when my hubby bought me my first stand mixer…it was amazing!!!! Tall, creamy, delicious. (I made it with a crust, came out perfect) did I mention it was the first time I ever attempted a cheesecake??? I wouldn’t change a thing.
So great Rebekah, very happy you enjoyed the recipe!
Hi I would love to make this gorgeous looking cheesecake but I do not have a convection oven — after reading the 471 comments I do not see what degrees and how long to bake it in a regular oven although it says you have it in your notes. Please help!
Thanks
Hi Martha, you would bake at 300º F. Bake for approximately 2 hours
Hi Laureen,
Quick question…would love to add chocolate swirl….is that possible or should I just leave well enough alone??? Thanks
I haven’t myself, but I think it sounds interesting.
Absolutely delicious.
I needed a gluten free cheesecake for Easter but still wanted a creamy New York style cheesecake. This worked perfectly. It didn’t crack. I served it with fresh strawberries and whipped cream. No one missed the crust. I managed to get myself a sliver before it all disappeared. Will make again!
Thank you very much Jessica for letting me know how much you enjoyed the recipe. You can’t beat fresh strawberries and whipped cream topping!
I’m attempting this for the first time with my 16 y/o daughter, she wants to make it for a friend !8th bd..
I’ll let you know how it turns out!
How nice it must be cooking with your daughter. I love cooking with my son.
Laureen it came out beautiful!!!! Wish I could post a pic!!
Awesome Patricia. I would love to see a photo!