Recipe

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• crust
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup cold butter cut up
• 1/2 tsp each: baking powder
• 1 large egg
• 3/4 cup sour cream
• 1 tsp almond or vanilla extract
• filling
• 8 oz cream cheese softened
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 can cherry pie filling
• 1/2 cup slivered or chopped almonds

• 1 In a large bowl combine flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and sugar and stir well.
• 2 Cut in butter to make coarse crumbs.
• 3 Reserve 3/4 cup for the topping.
• 4 To remaining crumb mixture stir in egg, and sour cream and extract till well blended.
• 5 With a spoon, smooth/press mixture onto a bottom of greased 9 inch springform pan and 1 inch up around the sides.
• 6 For Filling:
• 7 Beat cream cheese with sugar until smooth.
• 8 Blend in egg.
• 9 Spread onto unbaked crust.
• 10 Spoon on pie filling, sprinkle on reserved crumbs and sprinkle on almonds.
• 11 Bake in 350F oven 50 minutes or center appears set.
• 12 Remove to rack and cool completely.
• 13 Loosen edges with point of knife and remove sides of springform pan.
• 14 Cover and chill cake.
• 15 Center may fall a bit during cooling , still looks beautiful!