Leaving the flour out of a cheesecake recipe?

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I'd like to make this cheesecake recipe in a couple weeks: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/New-York-Cheesecake-102592

It calls for 3 TB of flour. I have several go-to cheesecake recipes, and none of them call for flour. I want to make this for my cooking group, and one of the members will only eat it if it is GF (she'll just avoid the crust, so I'm not worried about that). Can I safely leave the flour out of this recipe?

Thanks!

Answer

It will probably be fine without it, just a little less firm. You could use 1-1/2 tablespoons of cornstarch instead.

Answer

You could try adjusting the recipe from:
5 large eggs
2 large egg yolks
to:
4 large eggs
3 large egg yolks
and leave out the flour; or:
blend a pinch of xanthan gum into the sugar before adding it to the other ingredients. That could be risky as the xanthan gum may be repelled by the cream cheese (depending on how much water the cheese contains) but it'd be worth a try.
I sometimes use a rice flour crust for these kinds of recipes intended for my gluten free guests, but the nut crust idea gets my vote too.

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You can just use 1 1/2 TB cornstarch. For a crust you can use GF gingersnaps which are pretty easy to find, nuts, GF cookies, or Annie's GF bunny cookies. All work well.

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Thanks for all the suggestions. This is my first time making anything GF, and I had no idea that cornstarch could be used. I was at TJ's this morning - didn't see any GF cookies, so I will check out my grocery store later today and will do a GF crust - I prefer a cookie-based crust to a nut based one, I think. Thanks again!

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