The Best Cherry Cheesecake Recipe You Will Ever Make - California Grown

Ingredients

• 4 cups fresh cherries stems removed (pitted and halved)
• 1/2 cup water
• 2/3 cup sugar
• Juice from one lemon
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 1/4 tablespoons butter (melted, divided)
• 1 1/4 cup raw pistachios
• 9 graham crackers (about 1 sleeve)
• pinch coarse kosher salt
• 4 (8-ounce) cream cheese packages cream cheese (softened to room temperature)
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• zest of 1 lemon (divided)
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 cup fresh cherry sauce (recipe follows)
• 4 eggs
• 3 tablespoons all purpose flour (regular and gluten free flour both work in this recipe.)
• 2 cups fresh cherries ( pitted and halved)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
• zest and juice of 1 lemon (divided)
• 1/3 cup fresh cherry sauce (recipe follows, plus more for serving)