Easy New York style cheese cake

My husband had been begging me to make a cheesecake so I caved.  This is my first successful (the last was a chocolate one with chocolate cream cheese and yuck, also, I didn't attach the spring form correctly lol).  This recipe is simple enough to let the kids help but I'm not sure you're going to want to share it!

This is adapted from a recipe I found online (http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/7307/mini-cheesecakes-i) 

Ingredients 

Crust 

1 box of kinnakanik graham crackers 

1/4 cup of melted butter 

Filling 

3 bars (250g or 8oz x3) of room temperature cream cheese

1 cup of sugar

3 eggs

3 tbsp of lemon juice 

  - it called for vanilla, I forgot to add it and honesty you couldn't tell!!- 

Set oven to 350F/175C

First make sure you connect your spring form pan properly.  In a bowl mix the entire box of graham cracker crumbs with the melted butter.   Mix it up with a fork until it looked crumbly then move it to the spring form pan.  Move it and paint down with the fork then press down/smooth it out with your hand/fingers to finish packing it down.  

In a mixer cream the cream cheese.  Once it's creamed add in the eggs, sugar, lemon juice, and if you choose vanilla.  It will be soupy that's ok it's going to be.  Pour/scrape into spring form pan ontop of the crust and bake in oven for 1 hour (mine took 1 hour 5 mins).  Move directly to the fridge and it will be cool enough to eat in an hour.

Enjoy! 

❤️Mélissa