Uncle Bill's Blueberry Cream Cheesecake

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup almonds, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar, divided
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 3 cups fresh blueberries or 3 cups frozen blueberries
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 2 cups sour cream
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 cup fresh blueberries or 1 cup frozen blueberries
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 in a large mixing bowl, combine flour, finely chopped almonds, 1/4 cup sugar and baking powder.
• 3 using a pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture is crumbly.
• 4 in a separate bowl, beat together egg, vanilla and almond extract.
• 5 drizzle egg mixture over crumbly flour mixture and mix until egg mixture is just incorporated and the mixture is still crumbly.
• 6 press mixture evenly over the bottom of an 11" x 1 1/2" spring form pan.
• 7 bake in preheated 350 f oven for 8 to 10 minutes or until surface is no longer shiny.
• 8 remove from oven and let cool.
• 9 spoon 3 cups of blueberries evenly over baked base.
• 10 sprinkle remainder of 1/4 cup of sugar over the blueberries.
• 11 filling: in a mixing bowl using an electric mixer, combine cream cheese, sour cream, 3/4 cup of sugar, eggs and lemon juice and mix until smooth.
• 12 pour cream cheese mixture over blueberries.
• 13 bake in preheated 350 f oven for 1 to 1 1/4 hours or until center of cake is barely firm to the touch.
• 14 remove cake form oven and immediately run a knife around inside of rim to loosen cake.
• 15 let cool.
• 16 cover and refrigerate for at least 8 hours.
• 17 sauce: puree' 1 cup of blueberries in a blender.
• 18 in a small saucepan, combine blueberry puree' and sugar and cook over medium-high heat just long enough to dissolve sugar, about 3 to 4 minutes.
• 19 add lemon juice, mix well and let cool.
• 20 to serve: remove sides from spring form pan.
• 21 cut cheesecake into wedge slices.
• 22 pour some blueberry sauce on each serving plate.
• 23 place a piece of cheesecake in pool of sauce, then spoon more sauce over cheesecake.
• 24 if using frozen blueberries, make sure they are thawed, drained and patted dry with paper toweling.