Eggnog Cheesecake: Graham Cracker Crust

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail, and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make this delicious creamy eggnog cheesecake. Our next step in making the crust is to add three tablespoons of melted butter and two tablespoons of sugar to our crumbs, and we're going to do this right in the food processor, it's kind of nice how you can just put everything in. So let's add the melted butter, you want to try and spread it out a little bit but be careful not to get it on the centerpiece because that's not going to end up getting into the crust then. Okay. Try also to avoid dripping on the counter. And then we want two tablespoons of sugar. There is one tablespoon and a second one. And if you used sweetened cinnamon graham crackers as I did and you don't like as sweet of a crust, then you can feel free to cut back on the sugar if you want to. Although chances are if you're adding extra sugar in the graham crackers you probably want it extra sweet. And then we're just going to pulse this a couple of times, to get this mixed in. And you can see the crumb is starting to clump together a little bit. You want it so that the crust is going to stick together so that when it's baked it's going to hold its shape a bit, so we're going to pulse once or twice more, and then for the final stuff you're going to use a rubber spatula to scrape up the bottom a little bit, because some of that butter got down there and there's no getting it up with the blade."