Description

Make everyone happy with this German inspired cheese cake. It's light and heavenly with creamy bits of apple in the cheesecake filling on a wonderful crust of shortbread cookies, brown sugar and butter. Yum!

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 c. shortbread crushed cookies
• 1 T. light brown sugar
• 6 T. butter, melted
• 32 oz. cream cheese, at room temperature
• 5 large eggs, separated
• 3/4 c. + 6 T. granulated sugar, divided
• 1/2 c. heavy whipping cream
• 1 c. all-purpose flour, divided
• 2 t. vanilla extract, divided
• 2 T. lemon juice
• 1/3 c. unsalted butter, softened
• 1 medium Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored, and finely chopped
• 1/4 c. powdered sugar, for serving

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-inch springform pan.
2. Crust:
3. Stir together cookie crumbs, brown sugar and melted butter until mixture resembles wet sand; press evenly into pan.