Note: All cheeses should be at room temperature when making.
 
Yields: 1 pie
 
Ingredients:
 

• 1 lb ricotta
• 1 lb cream cheese
• 4 eggs
• 1 ½ cup sugar
• 3 tbsp cornstarch
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tbsp vanilla
• 1 pint sour cream
• ½ cup melted butter
• 3 tbsp flour

 
Process:
 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease an 8-inch-deep pie dish, roughly 3 inches high, and set aside.
• In a mixing bowl cream the ricotta, cream cheese, eggs and sugar. Hold.
• In a second mixing bowl cream the cornstarch, lemon juice, vanilla, sour cream and butter. Slowly incorporate flour. Hold.
• Fold together batters from bowls 1 and 2.
• Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
• Turn oven off and leave in oven for another hour. Do not open oven to avoid cracking of cake.
• Option to serve with fruit. At the restaurant we serve a slice with candied citrus, blood orange segments and an orange glaze.