No bake Cheesecake with X-Mas baked Apple in a jar

A Christmas dessert for the next days. I love cheesecake and traditional spiced baked apples. One other ingredient are vanilla kipferl or crescents. They are the crushed bottom of the dessert. My room mate at the office gave me a bag of her baked Christmas cookies and the vanilla ones were part of it.

I used Italian liqueur to soften them.

Recipe for 3:

3 apples, 12 cookies, 3 tsp Galliano liqueur, 150 ml apple juice, 1  tbsp sugar syrup, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp Allspice, pinch ground clove, ground vanilla bean

100 ml double cream, 170 g  Mascarpone, 2 tbsp icing sugar

Peel and core the apples. Cut them into small bits. Heat up apple juice  and sugar syrup and put the apples in. When they get a bit soft, add most of the cinnamon and all of clove and allspice. When they are done, they have to cool completely.

Whip the double cream. Whip the mascarpone with the icing sugar, vanilla and the rest of the cinnamon. Bring both cream and mascarpone together.

From the cookie stash, leave 3 aside, put the rest in a sandwich bag and give them a good bashing with a rolling pin.

Set out 3 jars. Fill in 2/3 of the cookie crumbs

and drench each jar with a tsp of Galliano. Or more :-)

Now most of the cold baked apples on top. Then the mascarpone mix. Add some crumbs and a few apple chunks on top and stick 1 vanilla kipferl in.

Refrigerate for 2 hours.