Turtle Cheesecake

Step 5 Cake: The crust

 Start your oven preheating to 163 °C (325 F).  Stir the melted butter into the cookie crumbs a little at a time. Stop adding butter when a spreadable paste is achieved; the mixture should not be too thin. Press the mixture into the bottom of a 9" springform pan. If you don't have one, any other deep pan should work, it'll just be hard to remove the cake.  For the cake pictured, the crust is only on the bottom, but when you pour the batter onto the caramel mixture, it tends to make the sides look uneven, so if you like, you can push the crust into the rim of the pan as well.

Stir half of the pecans into the reserved caramel sauce, and pour the mixture on top of the cookie crumbs in the pan. Place the whole pan in the refrigerator until the batter is ready.