#903 - Apple Cheesecake

(by Shirley McNevich)

1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
3/4 cup Quaker Quick Oats + 1/2 cup Quaker Quick Oats
1/4 cup + 3/4 cup + 1/3 cup Domino's dark brown sugar (packed)
1/2 cup butter (melted) + 1/3 cup butter (melted)
2 - 8oz. Philadelphia cream cheese
3 eggs
1/2 cup Breakstone's sour cream
1/4 tsp. ginger
4 baking apples (washed, peeled, cored and sliced)
1/2 cup flour
1 tsp. + 1/2 tsp. cinnamon


In a bowl add graham cracker crumbs, 3/4 cup quick oats and 1/4 cup brown sugar--add 1/2 cup melted butter and stir until mixed. Grease a 9 x 13 cake pan and press the crumb crust mixture across the bottom. In a mixer add cream cheese--beat. Add 3/4 cup brown sugar--beat. Add eggs--beat. Add sour cream, 1 tsp. cinnamon and ginger--beat. Pour batter on top of the graham cracker crust in the cake pan. Spread apple slices evenly on top of the batter. In a separate bowl add flour, 1/2 cup quick oats, 1/3 cup brown sugar and 1/2 tsp. cinnamon--add 1/3 cup melted butter. Stir mixture until it makes crumbs. Sprinkle the crumb mixture evenly over the top of the apples. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes. Cool completely, then refrigerate overnight. If you don't like too much cinnamon, omit all cinnamon except the cinnamon in the crumb topping that you put on top of the apples.