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Easy Apple Sopapilla Cheesecake Recipe – delicious cheesecake bars baked with tons of cinnamon sugar and apple pie flavor for an easy dessert the whole family will love!
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If you love delicious flavors of cinnamon and apple – and crave them like our family – you’re going to love this easy and delicious sheet pan cheesecake recipe.
Served as sopapilla cheesecake bars – these tasty treats are perfect when you’re craving something indulgent, but don’t want a ton of hassle. The bars are perfect to serve at a party, too!
This cheesecake tastes like a sopapilla – wrapped in layers of buttery dough and topped with an insanely delicious cinnamon sugar topping.
This easy baked cheesecake is delicious topped with a little caramel sauce, whipped cream, or even ice cream – and is great chilled or room temperature.
Don’t be surprised when you want it for breakfast, too – it’s like a more indulgent danish! Just like our blueberry peach cobbler recipe, this dessert is one you’ll crave over and over.
I hope you love this recipe as much as our family!
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How to Make Apple Sopapilla Cheesecake
This recipe is insanely easy with just a few ingredients that are commonly available and easy to find – making it an easy choice for a dessert you’ll want to make again and again.
- 9×13 pan (I love this one with a lid)
- Parchment paper
- Mixing bowls
- 16 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 (8 ounce) cans refrigerated crescent roll dough sheets
- 21 ounce can apple pie filling
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
Once you gather your ingredients, we will follow this process:
- Preheat the oven and prep a pan – we find it crucial to grease and line a pan with parchment for this dish to be nonstick and come out perfectly.
- Mix together cheesecake filling.
- Lay down one layer of dough.
- Spread out filling over dough.
- Spoon apple pie filling over cheesecake filling.
- Add another layer of dough on top.
- Cream together the butter, sugar, and cinnamon and dot it over the top of the dough.
- Bake until golden brown and delicious!
Tips and Tricks to Perfect Apple Sopapilla Cheesecake
Try other fillings. This cheesecake has perfect fall flavors with cinnamon and apples – but you can change it to try other fruits, too! We’re outlining our favorite variations below:
- Cherry pie filling
- Blueberry pie filling
- Peach Pie Filling
- Raspberry Pie Filling
- Strawberry Pie Filling
While you could use other fruit and pie fillings, we thought the flavor combinations above worked the best for this cheesecake, without overpowering or clashing with the flavors. You can also mix fruit fillings – similar to our Blueberry Peach Cobbler recipe – for a unique flavor! We love cherry-apple as a great twist.
Recipe FAQS
This sopapilla cheesecake needs to cool before serving to set, but can be served while still a little warm.
It is delicious after baking and chilled – pick whichever you like!
We’re using canned dough, which isn’t as sticky on hands, but to prevent dough from sticking to your hands you can rub some olive oil into your hands, or lightly flour your hands.
Leftovers should be packed in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Leftovers stored properly in the refrigerator can be kept for up to four days.
Other Easy Desserts
Dessert is one of the easiest things to overlook in our house – by the time we figure out what we’re cooking for dinner we often give up on dessert, unless it’s super easy to whip up.
These desserts are simple, delicious, and crazy easy family pleasing favorites!
- Easy Blueberry Peach Cobbler Recipe
- Easy Peach Cobbler Recipe
- Easy Lemon Jello Poke Cake Recipe
- Danish Dream Cake – Easy Coconut Caramel Cake
- Sprinkle Chimney Cakes (Kürtoskalács)
Making this cheesecake is so simple, it is a perfect dessert to try with your kids.
Kids can help unroll the dough, mix the cheesecake filling, pour and spread the fruit topping, and prepare the topping!
Make sure to line your baking dish well with parchment paper.
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Apple Sopapilla Cheesecake
Equipment
Ingredients
For the Cheesecake
- 16 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 16 oz refrigerated crescent roll dough sheets, 2 rolls
- 21 ounce can apple pie filling
For the Topping
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ cup unsalted butter
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease a 9×13-inch baking dish with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl or stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, beat the cream cheese, 1 cup of sugar, and vanilla together until smooth.
- Unroll the cans of dough and gently stretch them out to approximately 9×13-inch in size.
- Press one of the rolls of dough into the bottom of the prepared baking dish and pinch together any seams. Cut off any excess dough.
- Top the dough with the cream cheese mixture, making sure to spread it evenly over the dough.
- Spoon the apple pie filling out on top of the cheesecake layer and then top the filling with the other piece of dough.
- Cream together the butter, sugar, and cinnamon and dot it over the top of the dough.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes until the top layer of dough is a golden brown and has puffed up. Remove from the oven and allow the cheesecake to cool completely in the pan before slicing and serving. Can be served chilled or room temp.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I want to fry green apples instead of pie filling..do you think that would work?
That should work, you might want to cut them small and toss them in sugar and cinnamon to give them that pie filling flavor. There will be a lot of moisture so the apples may be firm if you dont cook them into pie filling ahead of time. Hope that helps!
Very easy to make and it is delicious! Thank you for sharing!
what are leftovers, when it comes to desserts? lol