Apple Pie Cheesecake – Sugar Spun Run

Apple pie cheesecake is a show-stopping, beautifully-balanced mix of basic cheesecake and apple pie. It’s good for fall, and assured to impress your friends! Recipe features a how-to video!

A Should-Bake Fall Dessert

I feel you’re about to turn into obsessive about this apple pie cheesecake, hopefully as a lot as I’m. It’s the right marriage of basic cheesecake and show-stopping Dutch apple pie. In the event you’re on the lookout for a recipe that can knock the socks off your friends and dominate over each different dish on the dessert desk (step apart, pumpkin pie), you’ve discovered it.

What makes this recipe so nice:

• No rolling out pie crust. Sure, I’ve acquired an awesome one for you proper there, however truthfully rolling out pie dough, flouring the counters, the entire ordeal is only a trouble I’m comfortable to skip right here.
• No water tub wanted. Not a shock when you’ve been round right here some time. Some recipes (creme brulee, anybody?) want a waterbath. Cheesecake, when ready in keeping with my directions, doesn’t, and you’ll nonetheless have clean, creamy outcomes (simply observe my suggestions!)
• An effective way to make use of up additional apples from apple selecting. In the event you’re over-ambitious within the orchard (like me, there are about 8 lbs of extra apples sitting on my counter proper now), right here’s an effective way to make use of up these apples (psst, attempt my apple butter and applesauce, too!).
• It’s really simply plain spectacular. It’s a stunner even earlier than you narrow into it, however simply wait til you reveal that beautiful ripple of apple pie…!
• It’s satisfying. Between the flavour (who knew cheesecake and apple pie paired so superbly — the tart apples, the subtly tangy candy cheesecake!) and the feel (creamy cheesecake, crisp apples, crumbly streusel, oh my!) this cheesecake goes to be a showstopper in your dessert desk and everybody goes to need the recipe.
• Nice dessert possibility for the indecisive. Do you have to carry pie? do you have to carry cheesecake? Why not each! 😏

This recipe is, admittedly a labor of affection and a little bit of a challenge, but it surely’s price each dish and each minute. Additionally not one of the steps are significantly difficult, so so long as you may observe a recipe, you’ve acquired this!

What You Want

Sure, there are fairly a number of elements on this recipe, however that’s as a result of apple pie cheesecake is over-the-top within the absolute finest means. There are a number of price nothing earlier than we start although, so let’s briefly go over these.

• Apples. Use a tart, agency apple (Granny Smith is my choice), peel them, core them, and cube into small items! I discovered that slicing them, such as you would for a pie, makes for a bizarre texture and causes the apples to form of slide out of the cheesecake unpleasantly when consuming–so undoubtedly stick to dicing!
• Cream cheese. As with my blueberry cheesecake and strawberry cheesecake, it is advisable to use brick-style, full-fat cream cheese on this recipe (not the type offered in a bath). Let your cream cheese totally soften to room temperature earlier than beginning, in any other case you possibly can find yourself with a lumpy cheesecake.
• Bitter cream. Bitter cream is a non-negotiable in any good cheesecake–it creates that signature tang! In the event you don’t have bitter cream, you possibly can do full-fat greek yogurt as an alternative.
• Eggs. Make certain to make use of room temperature eggs, as it will assist stop over-mixing. I additionally suggest evenly beating every egg earlier than including it to the batter, as soon as once more to forestall over-mixing.
• Walnuts. I like incorporating chopped walnuts into the crust (that is impressed by my favourite apple pie). In the event you, or anybody you’re planning on serving this to, are nut-averse, you may at all times go away them out with no different modifications wanted. 

SAM’S TIP: Pre-cooking the filling is critical to make the apples completely textured and flavorful; they keep too crisp if not pre-cooked and don’t have the identical deep taste. I promise I’ll by no means make you do additional work for no cause! 😊

Keep in mind, that is simply an outline of the elements I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll all the way down to the underside of the put up!

Find out how to Make Apple Pie Cheesecake

Put together the Apple Pie Filling

The filling for this was rigorously designed to work properly in a cheesecake, I had many fails earlier than I made a decision to attempt my apple turnover filling. And it labored like a appeal ✨

1. Cube the apples into small items, then add them to a saucepan with brown sugar, butter, cornstarch, cinnamon, and salt. Place over medium low warmth and prepare dinner till the butter melts.
2. Enhance the warmth to medium and produce the combination to a simmer. Let simmer 5 minutes or till the combination thickens and the apples are tender, stirring ceaselessly. Take away from the warmth, stir within the vanilla, then pour right into a heatproof bowl to chill.

Make the Crumble Topping

1. Stir collectively the oats, flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt till mixed.
2. Add melted butter (it shouldn’t be heat to the contact, that is necessary) and toss with a fork till clumpy and mixed. Don’t overdo it, or you possibly can create a paste! Set this combination apart for later.

Make the Crust

For the crust I stick to my trusty graham cracker crust, solely I combine in crushed walnuts for added taste (be happy to toast the nuts first, for much more taste). In the event you’re allergic or just don’t have any readily available, you may go away them out.

1. Stir collectively the finely chopped walnuts, graham cracker crumbs, and sugars till mixed, then add the melted butter and stir till every thing is moistened.
2. Press into the underside and excessive up the edges of a 9-inch springform pan, then put aside. This recipe makes loads of crust, so press all of it the best way up the edges!

Make the Filling

1. Beat the cream cheese and sugar on medium low velocity till clean and creamy, scraping the edges and backside of the bowl periodically as you go.
2. Stir within the bitter cream and vanilla till integrated.
3. Add the eggs one after the other, evenly beating every one earlier than including and mixing till simply integrated earlier than including the subsequent.
4. Use a spatula to scrape the edges and backside of the bowl to verify every thing is mixed and clean. There must be no lumps.

Assemble (& Bake!) the Apple Pie Cheesecake

1. Pour half of the cheesecake batter into your ready crust.
2. Add half of apple combination evenly over the cheesecake layer. Use a slotted spoon to pressure off any extra juice earlier than including the apples.
3. Pour the remaining cheesecake batter over the apple layer.
4. High with the remainder of the apples, as soon as once more draining off any juice earlier than layering over the cheesecake.
5. Scatter the crumble topping evenly over the apple layer, breaking apart any massive clumps as you go. Sure, the pan will probably be fairly full, because of this you prevented over-mixing earlier (and why this recipe would by no means work in a pie plate).
6. Bake for 60-70 minutes on low warmth (no water tub wanted right here!). You possibly can inform the cheesecake is completed when, if jostled, the sides are set and the middle is generally set however nonetheless has just a little little bit of jiggle (like Jell-o) to it. Let the cheesecake cool to room temperature earlier than inserting it within the fridge to relax in a single day earlier than digging in.

SAM’S TIP: There are two simple errors that can wreck your cheesecake, and I don’t need you to make both of them! #1: Don’t over-mix your cheesecake batter, particularly when including the eggs. This makes it extra prone to crack and to puff up after which fall. #2: Don’t over-bake the cheesecake! Go for checking earlier moderately than later. Over-baked cheesecake has an disagreeable, mealy textured cheesecake as an alternative of a clean and creamy apple pie cheesecake.

Often Requested Questions

Save this one for Thanksgiving–it is going to be the star of the dessert desk! And when you’re having fun with these connoisseur cheesecakes as a lot as I’m, try my salted caramel cheesecake, turtle cheesecake or peanut butter cheesecake subsequent!

Take pleasure in!

Let’s bake collectively! I’ll be strolling you thru all of the steps in my written recipe and video beneath! In the event you do that recipe, you’ll want to tag me on Instagram, and it’s also possible to discover me on YouTube and Fb

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