Not overly sweet, and still so much flavor! My inspiration to make this comes from the Italian cheesecake I occasionally make/learned of from the restaurant I work at part time.
Ingredients: Cinnamon graham cracker, butter, salt (melt in pot), homemade ricotta, eggs, salt, cane sugar, vanilla extract, cherries, star anise, orange zest, lemon zest.
The Looseleaf Cookbook 