philadelphia vanilla mousse cheesecake

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 40 nilla wafers, crushed
• 3 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
• 4 (8 ounce) packages philadelphia cream cheese, softened, divided
• 1 cup sugar, divided
• 4 teaspoons vanilla, divided
• 3 eggs
• 1 (8 ounce) tub cool whip whipped topping, thawed

Recipe

Preparation Time: 20 mins Ready Time: 6 hrs 15 mins


• heat oven to 325 degrees f.
• mix wafer crumbs and butter; press bottom of 9-inch springform pan.
• beat 3 pkg. cream cheese, 3/4 cup sugar and 1 tbsp. vanilla with mixer until well blended. add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended. pour over crust.
• bake 50 to 55 min. or until center is almost set. run knife around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool completely in pan.
• beat remaining cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with mixer in large bowl until well blended. whisk in cool whip; spread over cheesecake. refrigerate 4 hours. remove rim of pan before serving cheesecake.