Recipe
Winter’s Best Cheesecake
Ingredients
Winter’s Best Cheesecake Crust Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 3 1/2 Tbsp. butter, melted
- 2 Tbsp. golden light brown sugar
Filling Ingredients
- 4-8 oz. pkgs. cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup sour cream
- 4 eggs, room temperature
Topping Ingredients
- 4 cups Michigan Cortland apples chopped and peeled
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1-1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Instructions
Crust Directions
- Preheat oven to 325º.
- Mix crumbs, butter and 2 Tablespoons brown sugar, and press mixture onto bottom of 9" spring form pan.
Filling Directions
- Beat cream cheese, 1 cup of brown sugar, and vanilla together with an electric mixer until well blended.
- Add sour cream; mix well.
- Add eggs, one at a time, until blended.
- Pour mixture over crust.
Topping Directions
- For topping, mix 1/2 cup brown sugar, apples, pecans and cinnamon, then gently spoon over the filling.
- Bake 55 minutes or until center is almost set.
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