Apple Pie Cheesecake

Ingredients For crust:

• 2 cups Steve’s GF Bread Flour Blend
• ½ cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

Ingredients For cheesecake filling:

• 4 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Ingredients for apple pie portion:

• 4 Gala apples, peeled, cored and finely chopped
• 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 tablespoons sugar

Ingredients for streusel topping:

• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 cup Steve’s GF Bread Flour Blend
• ½ cup Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free quick cooking oats

Ingredients for drizzle:

• ½ cup caramel topping for drizzling after baked

Directions for cheesecake:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Cut in butter with a pastry blender or forks until mixture is crumbly. Press evenly into a 9×13 baking pan lined with heavy-duty aluminum foil. Bake 15 minutes or until lightly browned.
3. In a large bowl beat cream cheese with 1 cup sugar in an electric mixer at medium speed until smooth. Then add eggs, 1 at a time, and vanilla. Stir to combine. Pour over warm crust.
4. In a small bowl, stir together chopped apples, 2 tablespoons sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Spoon evenly over cream cheese mixture.

Directions for streusel topping:

1. In a small bowl, combine all ingredients except butter. Add butter until ingredients are combined, it should be a crumbly topping.
2. Sprinkle Streusel topping over apples.
3. Bake 45-50 minutes, or until filling is set.
4. Drizzle with caramel topping and let cool