Goat Cheese and Lemon Cheesecake with Hazelnut Crust
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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2003
Lemon is a fickle flavor, and pairing it with cream cheese requires a perfect balance of juice, zest, and sugar.
WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS
Pairing citrus with cream cheese for our best lemon cheesecake recipe required finding the perfect balance of juice, zest, and sugar so that the citrus flavor would be neither too fleeting nor too harsh. Lemon curd on top of the cake gave o...