Apple Sauce Cheesecake
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups Graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup melted butter
Filling:
16 oz cream cheese at room temp
1/2 cup sugar
3 eggs separated
3 tbsp flour
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 tsp vanilla extract
2/3 cup cream
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/4 cup sugar
Sauce:
2 cups baking apples chopped fine
1 cup sugar (approx)
2 tbsp cornstarch
2 tbsp water
- Preheat oven to 350 deg. Grease 9" spring-form pan.
- Melt butter, add sugar and Graham crumbs until mixed.
- Press into pan and bake 10-12 minutes.
- Reduce oven to 325.
- Beat cream cheese, beat in egg yolks, sugar, salt and flour.
- Add vanilla, cream and lemon juice; beat well until lump free.
- In bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form.
- Add 1/4 c sugar; beat until stiff.
- Fold egg whites into cream cheese mix.
- Pour into baked crust and bake for further 40-60 minutes.
- Cool.
- In saucepan boil apples for 5-7 minutes.
- Add sugar, simmer for 3-5 minutes more.
- Mix cornstarch with water and mix in with apple mixture, cook until thick.
- Pour over cheesecake.
- Variations: could be any type of berries.