Recipe: Cherry Cheesecake Cups
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 10:22AM If you've got thirty minutes and a few ingredients, you can rustle up a batch of Cherry Cheesecake Cups.
I saw "Powla" Dean make these desserts yesterday on her show, Paula's Home Cooking. I took a few hurried notes on the back of a grocery receipt. You can find the "real" recipe here, along with a very pretty picture of the finished product. It made one dozen.
Cherry Cheesecake Cups
2 cream cheese (8 oz., softened)
1 cup sugar
1 t vanilla
2 eggs.
Cream sugar and cream cheese until fluffy, add vanilla and eggs, one at a time. Beat well each addition.
Line muffin tins with paper or foil liners, lay one vanilla wafer on the bottom and fill cups with cream cheese mixture, almost to the top. Bake at 350 degrees for 18 minutes.
As the cheesecake cups cool, the middle will fall, leaving a little cup for cherry pie filling. Easy as pie.
I'm thinking that these would be good with a ginger snap in the bottom and Pumpkin Marble Cheesecake filling. But with what would you fill the little cup? Cherries don't sound very good with pumpkin. Any ideas?
Reader Comments (6)
How about caramel?
Now that's a stroke of genius! Great idea! Maybe a little sprinkle of chopped pecans? You could sprinkle a few over the cookie before you put the batter in the cup, too!
Yum!
Yes! Chopped pecans! I can almost taste it now.
Yum, indeed!
I wish I could have one of those with the pecans and caramel right now with my coffee!
I really did NOT need to know how easy this looks. ;)
I have made these before! We loved them...and anything easy is a plus for my busy life right now!
Kim