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  • 2 pack galleta marias or graham crackers
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 10 tbsp melted butter
  • 1 evaporated milk
  • 1 condensed milk
  • 1 tbsp vanilla blend
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 4 whole eggs
  • water
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees with a baking dish half full of water on the oven floor, to make steam so the top does not crack.
A water pan in the oven against cracking
Pulverize the cookies or graham crackers with the sugar and cinnamon in the blender.
Cookie crumb crust
Lightly grease a springform pan and line with parchment. Add the crumbs and mix in the melted butter until it feels like wet sand.
Press the crust over the bottom and up the sides with something flat. Put it in the oven while the filling is made.
  • 2 block cream cheese
  • ½ whole lime
Blend the evaporated milk, condensed milk, room-temperature cream cheese, vanilla blend, salt and the juice of half a lime on low until combined.
Add the eggs one at a time, still blending on low.
Set the pan on a baking sheet and pour the filling slowly over the crust, over a spatula so the crust is not disturbed; pop any bubbles.
Bake for 1 hour 20 minutes.
Open the oven door and let it cool about 30 minutes, then remove and cool completely.
Cooling and chilling
Refrigerate overnight or at least two hours.
  • strawberry glaze
  • fresh strawberries
  • raspberry
  • blueberry
Unmold, top with strawberry glaze and garnish with fresh strawberries, raspberries and a blueberry.