DESSERTS
CREAMY CHEESECAKE WITH FRUIT GLAZE
Makes one 7-inch cheesecake
Ingredients
1 tablespoon butter
4 tablespoons bread crumbs or cookie
crumbs
Two 8-oz packages of cream cheese
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup heavy cream
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
2 tablespoons flour
6 tablespoons sour cream
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
2 cups water
Directions
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Butter a 7 inch spring-form mold or other suitable baking dish safe (not included) to use in
this pressure cooker.
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Sprinkle with bread or cookie crumbs and set aside.
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Blend the cream cheese, sugar, cream, vanilla, lemon zest, flour, and sour cream. Beat in the
eggs and egg yolks, and pour the entire mixture into the mold.
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Center the uncovered pan on a 24" long piece of aluminum foil. Cover the top of the pan with
another piece of foil and pinch around the edges to seal. Scrunch up the ends of the length of
foil and bring them together over the pan to create a handle.
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Set the rack in the pressure cooker and pour in the water.
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Lower the foil-covered mold into the pressure cooker and place on the rack.
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Close and lock lid securely, set the Valve to Airtight
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Press the DESSERTS button.
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When the pressure cooker has finished the cooking cycle, allow all pressure to naturally
release.
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Once all pressure has released, the lid can be turned and unlocked.
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Remove the pan from the pressure cooker using the foil handle. Loosen the foil,
cool, then chill for at least 4 hours or overnight.
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Before serving, arrange fruit or spread fruit preserves in a thick layer over the cheesecake.
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Release and remove the rim of the spring-form pan.
ORANGE-FLAVORED CANDIED YAMS
SERVES 4
Ingredients
1 cup orange juice
2 large sweet potatoes (yams)
Salt, to taste
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon grated orange zest
2 tablespoons butter
Directions
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Pour orange juice into pressure cooker. Peel sweet potatoes and cut them in half lengthwise.
Arrange in a pressure cooker steamer basket (not included) and sprinkle with salt, brown
sugar and orange zest. Dot with butter.
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Lower steamer basket into pressure cooker.
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