Crust Ingredients For New York Cheesecake

Series Summary

Cheesecake is the dessert for all occasions. It might be after a classy meal on a first date, maybe with friends and family after a warm and hearty home cooked meal, while sipping coffee at a cafe downtown, or just in the middle of the night as a late night snack. Cheesecake is as diverse as it is delicious and it is surprisingly easy to make - especially when the cheesecake recipe is taught by one of the great experts at Expert Village! This cheesecake recipe will impress your family and friends and even has the power to end fights with your nosy and nagging neighbors!

In this free video series, watch as Chef Kip Bradford teaches how to make the classic New York cheesecake recipe. You'll learn what ingredients you'll need for making cheesecake, how to combine the ingredients and add them to the homemade pie crust, as well as tips on cooking, cooling and serving this classic dessert.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Kip and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village today we are going to make a New York style cheesecake. Before we can actually begin to make the filling for our cheesecake we need to make the crust. There again there is many different types of crust you can use on cheesecakes or for cheesecakes then there are cheesecakes. It is typical and common to see some type of variation of a graham cracker crust, we are going to make a pastry crust. So you are going to need a quarter of a cup of self rising flour, 1 cup of plain flour general purpose flour. We are going to do 1 egg well beaten. You would need 2 1/2 ounces of chilled butter cubed. You would need a 1/2 cup of sugar preferably pastry sugar but something that is a little finer than your coarse sugar and but if you don't have it go ahead and use regular sugar it would work out pretty well. Then you are going to need a teaspoon of lemon lime. "