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 believe you’re about to develop into obsessive about this apple pie cheesecake, hopefully as a lot as I’m. It’s the proper marriage of basic cheesecake and show-stopping Dutch apple pie. In case you’re on the lookout for a recipe that may 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 excellent one for you proper there, however actually rolling out pie dough, flouring the counters, the entire ordeal is only a trouble I’m glad to skip right here.
• No water bathtub 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 line with my directions, doesn’t, and you’ll nonetheless have easy, creamy outcomes (simply observe my ideas!)
• An effective way to make use of up further apples from apple choosing. In case 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 choice for the indecisive. Must you convey pie? do you have to convey cheesecake? Why not each! 😏

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

What You Want

Sure, there are fairly just a few substances on this recipe, however that’s as a result of apple pie cheesecake is over-the-top within the absolute greatest method. There are just a few value nothing earlier than we start although, so let’s briefly go over these.

• Apples. Use a tart, agency apple (Granny Smith is my desire), 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 kind of slide out of the cheesecake unpleasantly when consuming–so positively persist with dicing!
• Cream cheese. As with my blueberry cheesecake and strawberry cheesecake, you’ll want to use brick-style, full-fat cream cheese on this recipe (not the sort offered in a bath). Let your cream cheese totally soften to room temperature earlier than beginning, in any other case you would find yourself with a lumpy cheesecake.
• Bitter cream. Bitter cream is a non-negotiable in any good cheesecake–it creates that signature tang! In case you don’t have bitter cream, you would do full-fat greek yogurt as an alternative.
• Eggs. Ensure to make use of room temperature eggs, as this may assist forestall 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 really like incorporating chopped walnuts into the crust (that is impressed by my favourite apple pie). In case you, or anybody you’re planning on serving this to, are nut-averse, you may all the time go away them out with no different adjustments wanted. 

SAM’S TIP: Pre-cooking the filling is important 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 further work for no motive! 😊

Bear in mind, that is simply an outline of the substances I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the submit!

Tips on how to Make Apple Pie Cheesecake

Put together the Apple Pie Filling

The filling for this was rigorously designed to work nicely 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 cook dinner till the butter melts.
2. Improve the warmth to medium and convey the combination to a simmer. Let simmer 5 minutes or till the combination thickens and the apples are tender, stirring continuously. 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 would create a paste! Set this combination apart for later.

Make the Crust

For the crust I persist with 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 case 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 easy 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 by one, 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 ensure every thing is mixed and easy. There ought to 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 huge clumps as you go. Sure, the pan can 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 bathtub wanted right here!). You’ll be able to inform the cheesecake is completed when, if jostled, the perimeters are set and the middle is generally set however nonetheless has a bit of little bit of jiggle (like Jell-o) to it. Let the cheesecake cool to room temperature earlier than inserting it within the fridge to sit back in a single day earlier than digging in.

SAM’S TIP: There are two straightforward errors that may break 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 somewhat than later. Over-baked cheesecake has an disagreeable, mealy textured cheesecake as an alternative of a easy and creamy apple pie cheesecake.

Steadily Requested Questions

Save this one for Thanksgiving–it will likely 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 case you do that recipe, make sure to tag me on Instagram, and it’s also possible to discover me on YouTube and Fb

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