Recipe is AmAZING! so good with strawberries or blueberries on top. also add 1 teaspoon vanilla.

made 3 batches - added a little red food coloring to 1 batch, a little blue food coloring to another batch, and made red, white, and blue mini cheesecakes with mini foil wrappers and nilla wafers for crust - topped red with cherry, blue with blueberry, and white with coconut! YUMMY! also did add 1 tsp vanilla ;-)

I also added a small tub of cool whip and 1 tsp of vanilla extract with raspberry sauce fruit topping. DELISH!!

This is so good! My mom made it for me. At one of my shows I recommended this to the crowd of 500.

I do this exact recipe all the time without the sour cream this year I'm going to add some fresh lemon zest to see if the family could tell the difference... Everyone enjoys it especially when I put my apple topping on it... Maybe I'll make one with the sour cream and have a contest to see which one is better.. Thanks everyone for the ideas!

I tried it your way plus I added a little cool whip and it was great. Thank you. Happy holidays.

My mom made this when I was growing up, and called it "Sour Cream Pie"- She's gone now, and so was the recipe, until I thought to google the ingredients and found this. I can't wait to make it my family tradition.

This Cheese Cake recipe was one of the cooking projects in our schools 7th. grade Home Economics class. We got to make the Cheese Cake then eat it. YUM!! 34 years later now and I'm still making my Cheese Cakes this way. As a matter of fact I making one tonight for desert after Christmas Dinner. Some times I like to try adding a few things for a change of pace. Like crushed Pineapple or Crushed Heath Bars. I've even made it using Caramel Syrup and Pecans for a Turtle Cheese Cake. Try it sometime you'll love it! Don't forget to add 1 tsp. of Vanilla. Quick and easy

In England we crush biscuits (cookies) and add melted butter for the base. Sets when chilled.

We make this using an oreo crust (make your own or buy the ready-made one) & top with cherry pie filling. Never taken it somewhere that I wasn't begged for the recipe. I do add the vanilla extract, btw.

I love this recipe! However, it usually fails to set up very well, even after refrigerated overnight. Does anyone have a tip for making it become more firm?

The trick to getting the pie to set properly is to beat the softened cream cheese until it's fluffy before adding any other ingredient. This is a great recipe, and I add a tsp of vanilla too.

I did make this recipe yesterday. It has a great flavor, but did not set up, it had about the texture of marshmallow cream. I have no idea why. I guess I will have to try again, but do not think it will be this recipe.

I was looking for an easy cheese cake recipe, because I had lots of ingredients left from making Christmas cookies. A way to help it firm up a bit is to mix the cream cheese and the condensed milk until it really thickens, then add the rest of the ingredients. I too also added a tsp of vanilla flavor and squeezed a real lemon to make the juice. DELICIOUS!

I substituted Philly cream cheese (8 oz.), 2 cans of Eagle brand condensed milk, 2/3 cup of lemon juice and a small container of cool whip into the mixture to make it lighter. For the crust I use whole (uncrushed) on the bottom and around the sides, Pepperidge Chessman cookies and topped the cheesecake with fresh strawberries (halved).