Apple-Cheddar Cheesecake

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Title: Apple-Cheddar Cheesecake
Categories: Cheesecakes, Low-cal
Yield: 10 Servings

8 Thin wafer cookies
-lemon or vanilla
3 Apples
-peeled, thinly sliced
1/4 ts Apple-pie spice
1/2 c Vanilla low-fat yogurt
2 pk Lo-cal ("light") cream chees
-8-oz ea; or Neufchtel
-cheese
3 Eggs
6 tb Extra-sharp Cheddar; shredde
3 tb Sugar
Sugar substitute
-to equal 5 tbsp sugar

Arrange the cookies in the bottom of a nonstick 9-inch cake pan in a single
layer, edges touching. Arrange the apples on top, and sprinkle with pie
spice. Combine remaining ingredients in a blender, cover, and blend smooth.
Spoon over apples.

Bake in a 350 oven for 45 minutes, until set. Serve warm or chilled
straight from the pan.

{190 calories per serving with low-fat cheese; 225 with Neufchtel}

COMPLETELY SUGAR-FREE VERSION: Replace wafers with sugar-free dietetic
cookies--available in health-food stores or the diet shelf of your
supermarket. Replace vanilla yogurt with plain low-fat yogurt. Omit sugar;
increase sugar substitute to equal 12 tablespoons or 3/4 cup. Add 2
teaspoons vanilla extract to the blender. Follow assembly and baking
directions in the preceding recipe.

SOURCE: Slim Gourmet Sweets & Treats (pg. 142)

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