Makes 48 individual mini cheesecakes or 1 large cheesecake
SHORTBREAD CRUST
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup softened butter (packed), cut into small pieces
FILLING
3/4 cup Stilton cheese, rind discarded and cheese crumbled
1 1/4 cup or 10 oz. cream cheese, softened (packed)
1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
FOR SHORTBREAD CRUST:
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Blend together flour and sugar.
- Add butter and blend until mixture resembles coarse meal (it will not form a dough)
- Press into the bottom of 48 buttered mini muffin cups (1 3/4” x 1”) or transfer into buttered 9 1/2-inch springform pan and spread evenly and press into bottom.
- Bake for 7-9 minutes on the middle rack of the oven until pale golden.
- Cool in pan on a wire rack.
FOR FILLING:
- Beat together crumbled Stilton, cream cheese, and sugar in a large bowl with mixer on low speed.
- Beat in eggs (add one at a time) beating well after each addition. Add flour.
- Beat in sour cream and vanilla until just blended.
- Pour filling over cooled crust in mini muffin cups or springform pan.
- Bake cheesecake in a water bath in the middle of oven for 30 minutes until puffed and pale golden around the edge.
- Transfer to rack and run a knife around edge of pan to loosen. Cool completely, about 2 hours.
- Chill covered, until cold, at least 4 hours, before serving.
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