Apple Caramel Cheesecake

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Apple Caramel Cheesecake

Course:

Dessert, Cheesecake

Time:

4 hrs, 15 m

DIRECTIONS:

PREP:

• Ingredients to be at room temp (Unsalted Butter, Cream Cheese, Eggs)
• Preheat Over to 350 F. Rack Position: MIDDLE

1. In a small bowl, melt butter (85 grams, or .7 sticks)
2. Add to Mixer: Butter, graham cracker crumbs (about .4 boxes), and granulated Sugar (75g or .25 cup). Mix for 1 minute on LOW
3. Spread the contents of the mixing bowl into the pie dish. Use a small ladle to press into an even thin crust along the bottom and up the sides of the pie dish.
4. Chill in Refrigerator for 30 minutes
5. Add Duncan Hines Original Apple Pie Filling (about .5 cans).
6. Spread pie filling into an even layer in the bottom of the prepared crust
7. In a small bowl, mix 2 eggs
8. In another mixing bowl, mix, Cream Cheese (2 packages), Granulated Sugar (.5 cup) and Vanilla Extract (.5 t). Mix in your mixer for 2 minutes at medium speed
9. While mixing is going, slowly add your eggs
10. Pour cheesecake filling from the mixing bowl over the layer of apple pie filling
11. Bake at 350 F - until the center of the cake has set. For 35 minutes
12. Cool to room temperature
13. Line the outside edge of the cheesecake with pecan halves (21 pieces)
14. Cover the top of the cheesecake with apple pie filling
15. Starting from the outside edge in a circular motion cover cheesecake moving inward with each ring
16. Chill in refrigerator for 3 hours