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Red, White and Blue Cheesecake
From: MARY1313
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Date: 6-13-96

This is a really vibrant dessert for the 4th of July. It's from Eli's Catering in New York.

1 graham-cracker or chocolate wafer cookie crust pressed into the bottom and sides of a springform pan. Bake for 10 min. at 350 (or according to crust recipe)

2 lbs. cream cheese
5 eggs, beaten
1 cup sour cream
1 cup sugar
1 tbsp. flour
1/8 tsp. salt

1 tsp. vanilla
1 (16 oz.) can blueberries, drained
2 tbsp. each red and blue professional food paste
1 (16 oz.) can cherries, drained

1 (16 oz.) can cherry pie filling

Combine the cream cheese, sugar, flour, salt, eggs and sour cream in a mixer to make the basic batter; divide into thirds.

Mix vanilla into 1 of the thirds. Mix blueberries and blue food color into another third. Pour into crust. Freeze for 40 min.

Meanwhile, refrigerate the vanilla third.

Add the can of cherries and red coloring to the last third of batter. Refrigerate this, too.

When the blue layer is firm, remove from freezer and add vanilla layer. Freeze till firm, about 1/2 hour. Add red layer when blue is firm.

Bake at 300F till firm when jiggled, about 50 min. Cool and refrigerate. Top with can of cherry pie filling.