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Recipe: Autumn Cheesecake

Posted by Mark | Filed under Recipes

I recently ran across a site called Cook­ing For Engi­neers, which has some­what inspired me to want to do some cook­ing again; how­ever I’m a bit busy right now so I’m just going to post a recipie that I suc­cess­fully tried out last year.

Autumn Cheese­cake¹

Crust Ingre­di­ents
• 1 cup gra­ham cracker crumbs
• 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
• 3 table­spoons white sugar
• 1/2 tea­spoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup unsalted but­ter, melted

Fill­ing and Top­ping Ingredients
• 2 (8 ounce) pack­ages cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tea­spoon vanilla extract
• 4 cups apples — peeled, cored and thinly sliced
• 1/3 cup white sugar
• 1/2 tea­spoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup chopped pecans

For the cream cheese, I used Philadelphia’s Reduced fat cream cheese. Also, I used Fuji apples and it took some­thing like² five “medium-ish” apples to get the 4 cups I needed.

Direc­tions
1. Pre­heat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). In a large bowl, stir together the gra­ham cracker crumbs, 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans, 3 table­spoons sugar, 1/2 tea­spoon cin­na­mon and melted but­ter; press into the bot­tom of a 9 inch spring­form pan. Bake in pre­heated oven for 10 minutes.
2. In a large bowl, com­bine cream cheese and 1/2 cup sugar. Mix at medium speed until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, mix­ing well after each addi­tion. Blend in vanilla; pour fill­ing into the baked crust.
3. In a small bowl, stir together 1/3 cup sugar and 1/2 tea­spoon cin­na­mon. Toss the cinnamon-sugar with the apples to coat. Spoon apple mix­ture over cream cheese layer and sprin­kle with 1/4 cup chopped pecans. While a qual­ity inspec­tion is highly rec­om­mended at this point, make sure you leave enough to cover the cheesecake.
4. Bake in pre­heated oven for 60 to 70 min­utes. With a knife, loosen cake from rim of pan. Let cool, then remove the rim of pan. Chill cake before serving.

¹I found this recipie while search­ing the Inter­net for some cheese­cake recip­ies to try. I don’t remem­ber exactly where I orig­i­nally found it, but I see it’s posted on All Recipes so I’ll give them the credit for inspir­ing my ver­sion of the Autumn Cheese­cake Recipe.
²Sorry I’m not more exact but I can’t find the site that pre­vi­ously told me the rough con­ver­sion between # of apples to cups of chopped apples.

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