Butterscotch Almond Cheesecake
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List of Ingredients
CRUST
1 cup unbleached flour
1/3 cup sugar
� cup almonds, toasted
� teaspoon salt
7 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut into pieces.
1 egg yolk
� teaspoon almond extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Line the bottom of a 9-inch spring form pan, with 3-inch sides, with foil. Butter and flour foil.
Blend first 4 ingredients in processor until nuts are finely chopped. Add butter, yolk and extract and blend until mixture begins to gather together.
Press into bottom (not sides) of prepared pan. Bake until golden, about 25 minutes. Transfer to rack, cool 10 minutes. Release cake pan sides from crust. Gently turn out crust onto rack, peel off foil and cool. Place crust back into pan and reattach pan sides. Maintain oven temperature.
FILLING
4 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, room temperature
1-� cups sugar
� cup Scotch whiskey
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
4 large eggs
2 cups sour cream
Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese, 1-� cups sugar, Scotch and vanilla in a large bowl until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until combined. Pour into crust-lined pan.
Bake cheesecake until set at edges, but center 3-inch area still moves slightly when pan is shaken, about 50 minutes. Place on rack and cool 10 minutes.
Mix sour cream with remaining � cup sugar. Spoon sour cream mixture over cheesecake. Bake 10 minutes. Run sharp knife around top edge of pan to loosen cake. Chill overnight.
(Can be made 2 days ahead.)
TOPPING
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon scotch whiskey
2/3 cup whipping cream
� cup unsalted butter
� cup toasted almonds, very coarsely chopped
Sweetened whipped cream
Stir sugar and 2/3 cup Scotch in heavy large saucepan over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat and boil without stirring until syrup turns golden, occasionally brushing down sides of pan with pastry brush dipped in water and swirling pan. Add 2/3 cup cream and butter (mixture will bubble) and stir until smooth. Cool 10 minutes. Stir in 1 tablespoon Scotch. Let stand until cool, but still pourable, about 2 hours. Mix in � cup almonds.
Spoon all but � cup butterscotch topping over cheesecake (reserve remainder for another use).
Sprinkle with remaining � cup chopped almonds. Refrigerate 1 hour.
Run sharp knife around pan sides to loosen cake. Release pan sides. Spoon cream into pastry bag fitted with star tip. Pipe cream over top edge of cake.
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