Mini Cheese Cakes

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With Holiday Time coming, this is an easy yet always raved about recipe I use at Holiday time and throughout the year.

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Mini Cheese Cakes

Ingredients:

• 16 oz Cream Cheese
  
• 1 C. Sugar
  
• 2 eggs well beaten
  
• 1 TBsp Almond or Vanilla Extract ( I prefer almond or flavour of your choice )
  
• 1/4 - 1/3 C. Sour Cream
  
• Vanilla wafer cookies i.e. Nabisco
  
• Vanilla wafer crumbs
  
• Varied Fresh Fruit or Fruit toppings
  
• Reynolds muffin wrappers with foil outside, paper inside

Method:

Preheat Oven to 375 F

• Arrange muffin wrappers on cookie sheet
  
  
• Place one vanilla wafer in bottom of muffin wrapper
  
  
• Food process or crush additional vanilla wafers...you can add some ground nuts and/or coconut, additional flavouring extract to the crumbs and fill gap around wafer in bottom of muffin wrapper
  
  
• Use Food Processor ( which I use ) or mixer and beat eggs, sugar & extract until well beaten
  
  
• Add sour cream and cream cheese broken up in smaller peaces....beat until smoooth
  
  
• Fill muffin cups bout 3/4 full with cream cheese mixture
  
  
• Bake 13-14 minutes, until firm but not brown
  
  
• Let cool
  
  
• Serve plain or top with sliced fruit such as strawberry, kiwi, berries or fruit topping such as cherry, blueberry etc.
  
  
• Freezes well, however freeze without fruit toppings
  
  
• **note** you can change up the recipe to add chocolate marble by adding some cocoa to a portion the mixture, or marble with preserves, add some chopped up gourmet or chocolate of your choice as a variation **
  

Yield:

24 if Medium Muffin Cups used - 15-16 if large muffin cups used.

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1 1/3 cups sugar
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 pint (1 cup) whipping cream
3/4 cup milk
1-9inch pie shell unbaked
2 tablespoons butter - cut into small pieces
pinch nutmeg

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.

Combine sugar, flour, cream, milk, in a mixing bowl. pour into pie shell. Dot butter bits around top of pie. Sprinkle with nutmeg.

Bake for 10 min, and then reduce temperature to 350 degrees F and bake 30 min more. Cool to room temperature and then refridgerate until chilled. Serve chilled.
Note: if using glass baking dish, lower temp 25 degrees

[maryals]

BUMP for the YUM!!

Mary and Bessie

[Delphine]

Ah, the many forms of decadence. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmm.