Cheesecake Pops
From shandy 16 years ago
- 55 minutes to make
- Serves 20
Elle from Feeding My Enthusiam and Deborah from Taste and Tell blogs both picked this recipe called cheesecake pops for a daring baker challenge that will forever be in my favorite catalog of recipes. I am making these again for the 4th of July BBQ when I finally get to see my parents. Read more . .YAY! See less
Ingredients
- Makes 30 – 40 Pops shopping list
- 5 8-oz. packages cream cheese at room temperature shopping list
- 2 cups sugar shopping list
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour shopping list
- ¼ teaspoon salt shopping list
- 5 large eggs shopping list
- 2 egg yolks shopping list
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract shopping list
- ¼ cup heavy cream shopping list
- boiling water as needed shopping list
- Thirty to forty 8-inch lollipop sticks shopping list
- 1 pound chocolate, finely chopped – you can use all one kind or half and half of dark, milk, or white (Alternately, you can use 1 pound of flavored coatings, also known as summer coating, confectionary coating or wafer chocolate – candy supply stores carry colors, as well as the three kinds of chocolate.) shopping list
- 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening shopping list
- (Note: white chocolate is harder to use this way, but not impossible) shopping list
- Assorted decorations such as chopped nuts, colored jimmies, crushed peppermints, mini chocolate chips, sanding sugars, dragees) - Optional shopping list
How to make it
- Position oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 325 degrees F. Set some water to boil.
- In a large bowl, beat together the cream cheese, sugar, flour, and salt until smooth. If using a mixer, mix on low speed. Add the whole eggs and the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well (but still at low speed) after each addition. Beat in the vanilla and cream.
- Grease a 10-inch cake pan (not a springform pan), and pour the batter into the cake pan. Place the pan in a larger roasting pan. Fill the roasting pan with the boiling water until it reaches halfway up the sides of the cake pan. Bake until the cheesecake is firm and slightly golden on top, 35 to 45 minutes.
- Remove the cheesecake from the water bath and cool to room temperature. Cover the cheesecake with plastic wrap and refrigerate until very cold, at least 3 hours or up to overnight.
- When the cheesecake is cold and very firm, scoop the cheesecake into 2-ounce balls and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Carefully insert a lollipop stick into each cheesecake ball. Freeze the cheesecake pops, uncovered, until very hard, at least 1 – 2 hours.
- When the cheesecake pops are frozen and ready for dipping, prepare the chocolate. In the top of a double boiler, set over simmering water, or in a heatproof bowl set over a pot of simmering water, heat half the chocolate and half the shortening, stirring often, until chocolate is melted and chocolate and shortening are combined. Stir until completely smooth. Do not heat the chocolate too much or your chocolate will lose it’s shine after it has dried. Save the rest of the chocolate and shortening for later dipping, or use another type of chocolate for variety.
- Alternately, you can microwave the same amount of chocolate coating pieces on high at 30 second intervals, stirring until smooth.
- Quickly dip a frozen cheesecake pop in the melted chocolate, swirling quickly to coat it completely. Shake off any excess into the melted chocolate. If you like, you can now roll the pops quickly in optional decorations. You can also drizzle them with a contrasting color of melted chocolate (dark chocolate drizzled over milk chocolate or white chocolate over dark chocolate, etc.) Place the pop on a clean parchment paper-lined baking sheet to set. Repeat with remaining pops, melting more chocolate and shortening (or confectionary chocolate pieces) as needed.
- Refrigerate the pops for up to 24 hours, until ready to serve.
Mixing the Cheesecake Batter
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Getting Ready to Bake
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Forming Balls to Freeze
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Inserting Lollipop Sticks
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Tempering Chocolate
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Sharing
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The Rating
Reviewed by 13 people-
I love this idea, thanks ;)
hayleesgrandma
in Waldron loved it
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Great idea - I love them. They're so pretty and fun! Thanks so much.
lunasea
in Orlando loved it
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Oh Shandy, you need to go into the "Sweets" business (or appetizers, or drinks, or main dish, or ANYTHING)...these adorable bites of heaven are definitely going to be at my next party - what a fun, unique, interesting take on a piece of cheesecake!!
krumkake
in Chicago Suburbs loved it
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