Philadelphia okanagan cheesecake

12 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
cupCrushed ginger cookies
½cupToasted pecans; chopped fine
¼cupButter; melted
38-oz packages cream cheese
Softened
1cupSugar
½teaspoonLemon juice
½teaspoonVanilla extract
3Eggs
2Apples; sliced and sprinkled
With sugar and cinnamon
½cupApple jelly; melted

Directions

Heat oven to 350F. Combine cookie crumbs, pecans and butter, press onto bottom and 2" up the sides of a 9" springform pan. Bake 10 minutes.

With an electric mixer, beat cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and vanilla until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, just until blended. Pour over crust. Top with apple slices in a pinwheel pattern. Bake 50 minutes or until set. Cool. Refrigerate overnight.

Just before serving, spoon jelly over surface. Garnish as desired.

Canadian Living October 1993