One of my family’s favorite holiday recipes is for Mini-Cheesecakes
One of my family’s favorite holiday recipes is for Mini-Cheesecakes. Really, who doesn’t love cheesecake? I also happen to love all things mini.
Cheesecake + mini = perfection, at least for me.
My mom has been making these little delights for years and we pass them out like other families hand out Christmas cookies.
I wish I knew where the original recipe came from. It was probably the cream cheese package or some random magazine of I know my mom, which I do! The Mini-Cheesecakes are also always a hit at pot lucks and just about any function you’d want to bring food to.
I often get special requests for them at work. They also make a great bake sale item!
I usually have to make double what I was going to so I still have enough when I leave the house. My husband and our roommate scarf them down like potato chips.
The ingredients are as follows:
12 vanilla wafers
2 8 oz. packages of cream cheese softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
To make them you first preheat the oven to 325 degrees and line your muffin pan with foil liners. Then, you place one vanilla wafer in each liner. In a bowl or in your mixer you mix the cream cheese, vanilla and sugar on medium speed until they are well blended.
You then add the eggs and mix well. After that you pour the mixture over the vanilla wafers filling each cup about 3/4 full. Then you bake at 325 degrees for 25 minutes. Remove them from the pan when they are cool.
Put them in the fridge to chill. When they are cool enough you can top with your favorite fruit preserves or even chocolate! My favorite is cherry.
I’ve also made these with pumpkin for fall and cinnamon is also really yummy! You can be really creative. I had a friend do cappuccino ones. Don’t forget the whipped cream!
