Description
Apple cheesecake is simple to make ahead and serve warm or chilled. Try a favorite apple and spice combo or stick with tart green apples and lemon zest.
Ingredients
Scale
- 100g Butter
- 160g Plain flour
- 2 tbsp Beaten Egg
- 35g Icing sugar, sifted
Cheese filling
- 2 Green applies
- 250g Cream cheese, room temperature
- 80g Icing sugar, sifted
- 120g Whipping cream
- 2 Eggs (70g each)
- lemon zest from one lemon
- 1/2 tbsp Lemon juice
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp Plain four
- 1.5 – 2 Green apples
- 30g Raisins
Instructions
- Beat butter and icing until light and creamy. Add beaten eggs and mix well. Add plain flour and mix to a soft dough. Chill for 30 minutes.
- Place the cold pastry evenly into a rectangle tray (9x7x2, greased and lined with baking paper below). Prick evenly with a fork. Bake at 180C in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Remove to cool.
- Beat cream cheese and icing sugar until light and creamy. Add eggs one at a time until combined.
- Add lemon juice and vanilla extract, mix well followed by whipping cream. Lastly add plain flour and lemon zest, mix well again, set aside.
- Wash green apples and slice thinly. Arrange sliced apples onto base. Pour cheese filling over it.
- Bake at 180C in preheated oven for 50mins. Then lower temperature to 140C and bake for another 10 minutes or until golden.
- Category: Dessert