Apple Pie Cheesecake For Two

This is a wonderful (and super easy) dessert to exceed off that romantic Valentine dinner for ii (and you can larn far all ahead of time!!).  It is a creamy cheesecake, topped alongside a warm apple tree pie filling as well as mutual frigidness whipped cream........best of the best!!

Preheat your oven to 325°F, as well as trouble a mini-loaf pan (6"x3"x2") alongside foil, hence lightly spray the foil alongside cooking spray.

CRUST
1/4  loving cup graham cracker crumbs
2    teaspoons sugar
2    teaspoons melted butter
1    tablespoon chopped pecans
pinch of cinnamon

Mix good as well as press into the bottom of your prepared mini-loaf pan.

CHEESECAKE FILLING
4 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons flour
1 large egg white

Beat the cream cheese, carbohydrate as well as vanilla until really smooth; mix inward the flour and egg white as well as compaction merely until shine (takes merely a second).

Spread the filling, evenly, over the crumb crust. Set the mini loaf pan inside an 8" or 9" cake pan as well as fill upward the bigger pan alongside to a greater extent than or less HOT H2O (hot H2O should last well-nigh 1" deep). Bake 28-33 minutes (my electrical oven takes just 33 minutes). The cheesecake should last merely "set" as well as barely jiggle when you lot tap on the side of the loaf pan.

Remove from oven as well as allow it sit down at room temperature for well-nigh xxx minutes, hence chill inward the refrigerator for at to the lowest degree 2 or three hours (or overnight).

APPLE PIE TOPPING
This topping should last set on the cheesecake just earlier serving. You tin serve it warm (which is how nosotros similar it) or cold.

2 large sweetness apples (see note)
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon water
1/2 loving cup sugar
1/4 loving cup chocolate-brown sugar
1/4 loving cup chopped pecans
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch of nutmeg

Melt butter as well as H2O inward a medium saucepan as well as hence add together everything else. Saute on depression oestrus for well-nigh 5-8 minutes or until apples are tender. Thicken the sauce alongside a slurry of 1/2 teaspoon of cornstarch as well as 1 teaspoon of water.  Remove from oestrus as well as stir inward 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla.

You tin role this topping later it cools downwards a little, or if you lot desire to serve it cold, merely shop it inward the fridge.

When it's fourth dimension to serve, catch the ends of the foil inward the mini-loaf pan as well as elevator the cheesecake out.  Cut the cheesecake in one-half as well as house on dessert dishes; exceed each 1 alongside a large serving of apple tree pie filling (warm or cold). Top alongside sweetened whipped cream.

Enjoy!!

NOTE: Use whatever skilful eating apple. If you lot role something actually tart, similar a Granny Smith apple, merely add together a piffling extra sugar.