One of my favorite cooking magazines is Cooks Country, and a recipe in the April/May edition intrigued me. They made mini-cheesecakes using sweetened condensed milk, which I had never heard of, and used a cookie for the base.
It also uses jam and I just so happened to have fresh blueberries and raspberries which I paired with my homemade strawberry and blueberry jam.
I used their recipe as a base and tweaked it to my liking. These are delightful little cheesecakes and beautiful too! I doubled the recipe and it make 19 cheesecakes.
2 (8 ounce) packages of cream cheese at room temp
1 cup sweetened condensed milk (I used the reduced fat one)
Keebler Sandies (Shortbread cookies, I used the Pecan ones)
3 large eggs
fresh berries of your choosing
jam of your choosing
zest of 1 lemon
juice of 1 lemon
2 tsp vanilla
Preheat oven to 300 degrees
Using your cupcake/muffin tin, line them with paper liners
Place 1 cookie in the base of each muffin tin, pressing down
Beat cream cheese until light and fluffy about 2 minutes
Gradually beat in condensed milk until incorporated
Add your vanilla extract, lemon zest and lemon juice
Add eggs, one at a time, beating till smooth 2-3 minutes
Divide the cheesecake mixture into the muffin tins, don't overfill them (it makes 18 cheesecakes) and bake for 20 minutes
Remove and let cool for 20 minutes and refrigerate for an hour
Remove cheesecakes from muffin tins
Microwave jam slightly till it loosens up, and glaze the top of the cheescakes, top with fruit
If well wrapped the naked cheesecakes keep quite well in the freezer
18 comments:
I'd like to do this some time..
I saw this recipe too, but haven't tried it yet. They look adorable and delicious! Cheesecake is awsome.
Nicely done Cheryl! They not only look really beautiful but they look delicious too. YUM!
they look so petite, pretty and delicious!
These are gorgeous and I'll wager they taste as good as they look. I hope you are having a wonderful day. Blessings...Mary
They look superb Cherryl. I bet they are very popular.
YUMMY! i want to eat ten!
I love these little cheesecakes. I'm with Teresa, I want 10. :-)
Wow, those are beautiful!!
so awesome, cheryl! where was this when i was looking for something festive and delicious for independence day? i suppose it would do just as good for labor day. or any day, really. :)
How cute! And you can eat like ten and not feel guilty!
what a great idea, I love the shortbread cookies as the crust! My girls will love these, they are going on my dessert menu!
Cheesecake poppers! What liquor is recommended? nevermind, cannot wait i would just toss these in my belly...
Gasp. I love sweetened condensed milk. that stuff is crack. I used to lick it from the can like it's candy. I love how sweet and summery and adorable these cakes look!
I also read Cooks Country and love it. Those little cheesecakes look like heaven! I'm partial to the raspberry one!
Very adorable looking and of course very yummy looking...
I can attest to the yumminess of these little cheesecakes as Cheryl served them for our get together! The homemade strawberry and blueberry jam was excellent too! Thanks Cheryl! Kristin
These might have to be served at my next book club!
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