Sundays, naturally evolved into Meditative/Contemplative Sunday.
As I am looking at my week, I realized that I mainly do my cooking on the weekend.
So Good Eats Monday seems appropriate. Now I just got to figure out how to quickly take and load pictures onto the blog. Today's cheesecake is a stock picture.
It was a fun weekend of baking: Cinnamon Bun Cupcakes for sharing, Sugar Cookies for decorating and My Favorite Mini-Cheesecakes for showing.
My Favorite Mini Cheesecakes
Ingredients:
Crust:
1 cup (100 grams) graham
wafer crumbs or crushed vanilla wafers
1 tablespoon (15
grams) granulated white sugar
4 tablespoons (55 grams)
unsalted butter, melted
Filling:
2 - 8 ounce (454 grams)
packages of cream cheese, room temperature (use regular, not reduced or fat
free cream cheese)
2/3 cup (130 grams)
granulated white sugar
2 large eggs, room
temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup sour cream
Directions:
- Line 12 muffin tins
with cupcake liners
- Preheat oven to 300
degrees F (150 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven.
- For Crust:
1. In
a small bowl combine the cookie crumbs, sugar, and melted butter.
2. Press
about a tablespoon of crumbs on the bottoms of the 12 muffin cups lined with
parchment paper. Cover and refrigerate while you make the filling.
- For Filling:
1.Beat
the cream cheese with an electric mixer, on low to medium speed until smooth.
2.Add
the sugar and beat until combined.
3.Scrape
down the sides of the bowl and add the eggs, one at a time, beating about
30 seconds.
4.Add
the vanilla extract and sour cream and beat just until incorporated.
- Remove the crusts from the
refrigerator and evenly divide the filling among the 12 muffin cups.
- Bake for about 20 minutes or
until firm but the centers of the cheesecakes still wobble a little.
- Remove from oven and place
on a wire rack. Let cool and then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate
(a few hours or overnight).
- Garnish: (Optional): strawberry, cherry or any fresh berries &
a dollop of whipped cream
Makes 12 - 1/2 cup
cheesecakes.
Wishing You Good Eats This Monday.
Maybe You Will Have Dessert First Today.
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