Cookie Dough Crust Ingredients:

1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
Grated rind of 1 lemon (optional)
1 egg yolk
1/2 cup soft butter or margarine

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Cheesecake Filling Ingredients:

5 packages ( 8 ounce each)cream cheese
1 3/4 cups sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
Grated rind of 1 lemon (optional)
Grated rind of 1/2 orange (optional)
5 eggs
2 egg yolks
1/4 cup heavy cream

Whipped cream or whipped topping for cake top decoration before serving (optional)

Make Cookie Dough Crust and Pan Prep:

Mix flour and sugar.
Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
Chill.
Roll one third of dough to cover bottom of springform or loose-bottomed pan.
Bake in preheated hot oven at 400 degrees for about 8 minutes.
Butter sides of pan and put bottom with crust inside it.
Cool.
Roll remaing dough into 2 strips, 2 1/2 inches wide and 14 inches long.
Press strips onto inner sides of pan, (if strips break just patch and press smooth with fingers)

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Make The Cheesecake Filling:

Beat cheese until soft.
Mix sugar, flour and salt and then gradually blend into cheese, keeping mixture smooth.
Add grated rinds. (optional)
Add eggs and egg yolks, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each.
Blend in heavy cream.
Pour into pan.
Bake in preheated, very hot oven at 475 degrees for 15 minutes.
Reduce heat to a low 225 degrees and bake 1 hour longer.
Turn off heat and leave cake in oven for another 15 minutes.
*Remove from oven and let stand on cake rack away from drafts until cold.
Chill.
When ready to serve, remove sides of pan.
**Put cake on serving plate.


* Cake will shrink some as it cools.

**Optionally, you can decorate top of cake with whipped cream or whipped topping.)

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