Day 11 - Mini Cheesecakes

Sunday, January 16, 2010

Cheesecake Experience - Part 2

Today we turned our love of cheesecake into bite size treats! We made a simple filling of cream cheese, sugar, eggs, and lemon juice. We decided that two types of crusts would be better than one, so half of our tray was filled with chocolate and the other with regular graham cracker crumbs. We used a cookie scooper to press down the crumbs which made the process so much faster considering the tray had 24 cups!!

After we poured the filling in to the tray, we put them in the oven and set the timer for 6 minutes. After the time was up, we dropped chocolate chips in some of the mini cheesecakes and swirled them around with a toothpick. We sent them back to the oven for about 10 more minutes. After they were cooled, some mini's received a caramel topping and off to the refrigerator they went!

Today's baking was a short and simple way to whip up a dessert a day ahead of time for any occasion. You will end up with a variety of mini treats that you didn't spend all day long making! What a lovely way to end our cheesecake experience!

Stay tuned for next week...