Cranberry Marble Cheesecake

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 (12 ounce) bag fresh cranberries
• 3/4 cup water
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 16 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
• 2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 4 eggs
• 1 pint sour cream, at room temp
• 2 cups crushed graham crackers
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/3 cup butter, melted

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 mix cinnamon and crushed graham crackers together. add melted butter and mix until well blended.
• 3 using fingers, press crust mixture into bottom and 2/3 of the way up the sides of a 9 inch springform pan.
• 4 bake crust for about 6 minutes until set. set aside.
• 5 in a medium saucepan, combine cranberries and water. bring to a boil over medium heat and cook until the cranberries pop and the mixture reduces to about 1-1/4 cups, about 10 minutes.
• 6 remove from heat and stir in 1/3 cup sugar until dissolved. pour the mixture through a coarse sieve to strain and let the purée cool completely.
• 7 reduce oven temperature to 300°f.
• 8 in a large bowl, beat the cream cheese with the remaining 1 1/4 cups sugar and the vanilla at until smooth.
• 9 beat in the eggs one at a time, beating until just blended. stir in the sour cream.
• 10 spoon half the batter into the prepared pan. drop 8-10 rounded teaspoons of the cranberry puree (about 1/3 of the puree) randomly over the batter.
• 11 spoon half of the remaining batter evenly over the first layer and dot with half of the remaining puree.
• 12 repeat with the remaining batter and puree. try to space out the puree so one layer is not directly on top of the puree in another.
• 13 take a blunt knife and gently swirl it through the batter to distribute the cranberry puree, taking care not to disturb the crust at the bottom.
• 14 place the pan on a baking sheet and bake in the lower part of the oven for 1 hour.
• 15 turn the oven off and leave the cheesecake in the oven, without openiing the door, for 1 hour longer.
• 16 transfer to a wire rack and let cool to room temperature.
• 17 cover and chill overnight before serving.