Miniature Cheesecakes
From luisascatering 13 years ago
- 45 to make
- Serves 25
New York Cheesecakes are creamy, and smooth, and rich, and dense, and absolutely delicious. This is the recipe I use for a large cheesecake but made mini-sized cheesecakes instead this time. You can top them with whatever fruits are in season at the moment. Read more Since we are in December and it's holiday season, I wanted them to look festive. I decided to use fresh currants, currant jam and tiny mint leaves. See less
Ingredients
- Crust: shopping list
- 2 cups graham wafer crumbs or finely crushed vanilla wafers or gingersnaps (process whole cookies in a food processor until they are crumbs) 1/4 cup granulated white sugar 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted shopping list
- Filling: shopping list
- 4- 8 ounce packages cream cheese, room temperature (use full fat, not reduced or fat free cream cheese) shopping list
- 1 cup granulated white sugar shopping list
- 3 tablespoons all purpose flour shopping list
- 5 large eggs, room temperature shopping list
- 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream shopping list
- zest of 1 lemon shopping list
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract shopping list
- Topping: shopping list
- 1 cup sour cream (not low fat or fat free) shopping list
- 3 tablespoons granulated white sugar shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract shopping list
How to make it
- Grease, or spray with baking spray, 4 mini muffin pans. Set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees with rack in center of oven.
- For Crust:In a medium sized bowl combine the graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and melted butter. Press the crumbs evenly in each muffin tin over the bottom (I use the botton of a shot glass to press down the crust). Cover and refrigerate while you make the filling.
- For Filling:
- In bowl of your electric mixer place the cream cheese, sugar, and flour. Beat on medium speed until smooth (about 2 minutes), scraping down the bowl as needed. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well (about 30 seconds) after each addition. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the whipping cream, lemon zest, vanilla extract and beat until incorporated. Remove the crusts from the refrigerator and pour in the filling.
- Bake for 15 minutes and then lower the oven temperature to 250 degrees F and continue to bake for about another 20-30 minutes or until firm. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl combine the sour cream, sugar, and vanilla extract. Spread the topping over the warm cheesecakes and return to oven to bake for 10 more minutes. Remove from oven and carefully run a knife inside edge of each to loosen the cheesecakes.
- Let cool before covering with plastic wrap and refrigerating. This cheesecakes tastes best after being refrigerated for at least a day.
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