Tina's Black Forest Mini Cheesecakes
photo by HeatherFeather
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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18-24
ingredients
- 18 -24 vanilla wafer cookies
- 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
- 1 1⁄4 cups granulated sugar
- 1⁄3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1⁄2 teaspoon almond extract
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Topping
- 1 cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
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Garnish
- 1 (21 ounce) can cherry pie filling, chilled
directions
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- Line 18 regular size muffin tins with foil baking cup papers (the regular paper ones get too soggy).
- Place one cookie in the bottom of each baking cup.
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth.
- Add sugar, cocoa, and flour, blending well.
- Add eggs, beating well.
- Stir in sour cream and almond extract.
- Fill each prepared tin almost full with cream cheese mixture- but leaving room for rising and for the topping which will get added later.
- Bake 20-25 minutes, or until set.
- Remove from oven and let cool 10 minutes.
- Mix together sour cream, sugar and vanilla for the topping while the cakes are cooling.
- Spread a heaping teaspoonful of topping onto each cake; the cakes will still be warm at this point.
- Let cakes cool in pans about 30 minutes, then CHILL well.
- Garnish each cake just before serving with a dollop of cherry pie filling- if you do this too far in advance, the topping will cause the cheesecakes to get soggy.
- You may have extra pie filling left over.
- Keep leftover cheesecakes chilled.
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Reviews
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A wonderful recipe for chocolate cheesecake. I halved the recipe because there are only two of us. Instead of the cupcake papers I baked it in my 4" mini-springform pans. I baked it for about 30 minutes, and then turned off the oven and let it set in the oven for about another 10 minutes before cooling on a rack. A half recipe made 3 of these pans. I also reduced the sugar by half, substituting Splenda for the omitted sugar. I folded about 1/2 cup of Lite Cool Whip into the topping mixture. Even with the reduced fat and sugar this makes a delicious cheesecake.
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I made these a few years ago when we had our 10th anniversary party and then again for a fancy brunch. They look and taste incredible. A tip: we didn't like the topping, so we just creamed together some more cream cheese and sugar and used that for the topping. Leave a little room around the edges so the chocolate shows around the white topping and it looks GORGEOUS for a gathering! YUM!