Blue Cheese Cheesecake

Servings: 12
Yield: 12 servings

Description

Serve this baked crustless cake - a mixture of blue cheese, cream cheese, and sour cream - as an impressive appetizer.

Ingredients

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
2 cups blue cheese, crumbled
1 cup sour cream
1/3 teaspoon ground white pepper
3 eggs
1 1/4 cups sour cream
1 red bell pepper, halved and deseeded
1 green onion

Directions

1 Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
2 Beat cream cheese and blue cheese in large mixing bowl until light and fluffy--about 5 minutes. Mix in 1 cup sour cream and pepper. Add eggs - one at a time - mixing well after each addition.
3 Pour mixture into buttered 9 inch springform pan. Bake 60 - 65 minutes or until wooden pick inserted near center comes out clean.
4 Remove from oven and let stand 5 minutes. Carefully spread 1 1/4 cup sour cream over top. Return to oven 5 minutes. Cool completely on wire rack. Refrigerate several hours or overnight.
5 To serve, place on serving plate. Carefully remove sides of pan. Decorate top with red pepper cut into flower shapes with small cookie cutter and green onion tops as stems.