Apple Cheesecake Bars

Apple Cheesecake Bars

Ingredients:

    Base
    100g Butter
    160g Plain flour
    2 tbsp Beaten Egg
    35g Icing sugar, sifted

    Cheese filling
    2 Green applies
    250g Cream cheese, room temperature
    80g Icing sugar, sifted
    120g Whipping cream
    2 Eggs (70g each)
    lemon zest from one lemon
    1/2 tbsp Lemon juice
    1 tsp Vanilla extract
    2 tbsp Plain four

    1.5 – 2 Green apples
    30g Raisins

     Method:

• Beat butter and icing until light and creamy. Add beaten eggs and mix well. Add plain flour and mix to a soft dough. Chill for 30 minutes.
• Place the cold pastry evenly into a rectangle tray (9x7x2, greased and lined with baking paper below). Prick evenly with a fork. Bake at 180C in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Remove to cool.
• Beat cream cheese and icing sugar until light and creamy. Add eggs one at a time until combined.
• Add lemon juice and vanilla extract, mix well followed by whipping cream. Lastly add plain flour and lemon zest, mix well again, set aside.
• Wash green apples and slice thinly. Arrange sliced apples onto base. Pour cheese filling over it.
• Bake at 180C in preheated oven for 50mins. Then lower temperature to 140C and bake for another 10 minutes or until golden.