Apple Pie Cheesecake Squares

My husband usually has his friends over every Saturday morning for some guy bonding time. They say they're playing games, but I have a feeling they're just doing boy stuff like drinking lots of beer and worshiping Jessica Alba. It does however give me a captive audience to cook for so I'm not left with a kitchen full of sinful goodies to tempt me. For this dessert I took a basic recipe that had a layer of cream cheese baked in between layers of crescent roll dough and I tweaked it a bit, adding apple pie filling and a cinnamon sugar topping. You can use any kind of fruit filling - blueberry, cherry, peach, or even a layer of jam would be good.

APPLE PIE CHEESECAKE SQUARES

INGREDIENTS:

2 (8oz) cans refrigerated crescent roll dough
8 oz light cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 egg, beaten
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
1 (20oz) can apple pie filling

2 tablespoons butter, melted
1/8 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon


DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x13 baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.

2. Press one can of crescent roll dough evenly into the bottom of the baking pan. In a medium bowl, mix together cream cheese, powdered sugar, egg, vanilla and lemon juice until smooth. Spread evenly over crescent roll layer, stopping 1/2 inch from edges. Spoon apple pie filling over cream cheese layer. Unroll second can of crescent roll dough and and lay on top of of apple pie layer - pinch seams together but do not press down.

3. Brush the top layer of crescent dough with melted butter. In a small bowl, combine granulated sugar and cinnamon - sprinkle evenly over the top of the butter layer. Bake for 25-30 minutes until top is crisp and golden. Allow to cool before cutting into squares and serving - top with whipped cream and dust with cinnamon if desired. Store in refrigerator.