Philadelphia Okanagan Cheesecake

Ingredients

350 gr ginger cookies
65 gr pecans
55 gr butter
230 ml cream cheese softened
200 gr sugar
2 ml lemon juice
2 gr vanilla extract
3 eggs
2 slices apples
1 with sugar
130 gr apple jelly

Instructions

Heat oven to 180ÂșC . Combine cookie crumbs, pecans and butter, press onto bottom and 5 cm up the sides of a 23 cm 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