Valentines Day recipe - Mini Cheesecakes

Valentines Day for some reason always makes me think of
cheesecake!

I think it's because for many years it was my husband favorite dessert
thus, a Valentines Day favorite.

Now he seldom eats sweets anymore, but I thought maybe I could persuade him with a new twist on his old favorite.

These mini - cheesecakes at the most adorable things ever!




Valentine - Mini Cheesecakes

Here’s the recipe:

2 pkg. (8oz.) cream cheese, softened to room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 Tbsp vanilla
1 Tbsp lemon juice

vanilla wafers crumbled
2 or 2.5" aluminum mini baking cups (aka muffin cups)
Maraschino cherries

Mix the first 5 ingredients in order given, mixing in eggs one at a time and beating well.  Pour into muffin cups in a muffin tin with a few vanilla wafers crumbled in the bottoms.  Don't overfill, fill to about 3/4 full in muffin cups.  Bake in a 350 degree oven for 15-20 minutes.  Cool.  Cakes shrink slightly as they cool.  After cool decorate with maraschino cherries, stablized whip cream and a few pink or red sprinkles.  Eat and enjoy!

Stabilized Whip Cream: (holds it's shape for hours and hours :)

Heavy whipping cream

1/2 C. powdered sugar

unflavored gelatin packet

8 t. cold water

In a small cooking pan, sprinkle 2t. gelatin into 8 t. cold water, let sit a couple minutes, then on slightly warm burner, warm just until gelatin dissolves, set aside to cool.  Whip 2 C. heavy whipping cream to soft peak status.  Slowly whip gelatin mixture into whip cream while continuously beating to the firm peak stage.

(¯`*•.¸♥ღ  Mmmmmm - Mmmmmm - GOOD!♥ღ(¯`*




As you can see we celebrated with great style this year, romantic movies, chocolate, diet coke, an assortment of pink treats, and a new favorite . . .


Valentine Mini Cheesecakes!