Title: Philadelphia Okanagan Cheesecake
Categories: Cheesecake Cake Dessert Fruit
Yield: 12 Servings

1 1/2	c	Crushed ginger cookies
1/2	c	Toasted pecans; chopped fine
1/4	c	Butter; melted
3		8-oz packages cream cheese
		Softened
1	c	Sugar
1/2	ts	Lemon juice
1/2	ts	Vanilla extract
3		Eggs
2		Apples; sliced and sprinkled
		With sugar and cinnamon
1/2	c	Apple jelly; melted

Heat oven to 350F. Combine cookie crumbs, pecans and butter, press onto bottom and 2" up the sides of a 9" springform pan. Bake 10 minutes.

With an electric mixer, beat cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and vanilla until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, just until blended. Pour over crust. Top with apple slices in a pinwheel pattern. Bake 50 minutes or until set. Cool. Refrigerate overnight.

Just before serving, spoon jelly over surface. Garnish as desired. Canadian Living October 1993

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