Recipes
Roasted Apple Cranberry Cheesecake
Prep time:25 min
Total time:3 hr 25 min
Serves 8 to 10
Ingredients
1 box (175g) Longo’s Signature Almond Biscotti (6 pieces)
1/3 cup Longo’s Essentials Country Churned Salted Butter, melted
2 pkg (250g each) cream cheese, softened
1 tub (300g) ricotta cheese (in the basket), drained
1 can (300mL) sweetened condensed milk
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 tsp almond extract (optional)
3 large Longo’s Enriched Coop Eggs, beaten
Roasted Apple Cranberry Topping
2 large, firm apples such as Honeycrisp, peeled and chopped
2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries
1/3 cup Longo’s Maple Syrup
2 tbsp Longo's Essentials Country Churned Salted Butter, melted
2 tsp finely grated orange zest
2 tbsp fresh orange juice
1/2 tsp Longo’s Ground Cinnamon
Directions
- •Arrange racks in bottom and upper third of oven. Preheat oven to 325°F.
- •Toss apples with cranberries, maple syrup, butter, orange zest, orange juice and cinnamon in a 13- x 9-inch baking dish. Set aside.
- •Place biscotti in food processor; pulse until finely crumbed. Add butter and pulse to combine. Press into bottom of a 9-inch springform pan.
- •In clean food processor bowl, blend cream cheese with ricotta, condensed milk, vanilla and almond extract (if using) until very smooth, scraping the sides of the bowl as needed. Add beaten eggs and pulse just until uniformly combined (do not over-process). Pour into crust.
- •Bake cheesecake on bottom rack with apple cranberry mixture on upper rack for 30 minutes or until fruit is caramelized and saucy and cheesecake is set around the edges but still wobbly in the centre. Turn off the oven and let cheesecake and fruit stand in hot oven for 30 minutes.
- •Transfer cheesecake to rack and run knife around edge. Cool to room temperature and refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving with topping. Rewarm the apple cranberry mixture, if desired, before spooning overtop.
Roasted Apple Cranberry Topping
A dash of advice
Two key tips to keep your cheesecake from cracking: first, blending the cheese and other ingredients until really smooth before adding the eggs and then just gently pulsing in eggs will avoid over-mixing. Second, finishing the baking while the oven is cooling down will provide a gentle finish for that perfect set.
Variation: Replace the apples with 2 large, firm pears.
Nutritional Information
Per serving (1/10th recipe): 600 calories
- Protein 22g
- Fibre 2g
- Fat 37g
- Sugar 38g
- Carbs 47g
- Sodium 530mg
