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    Mini-Cheesecakes Tassies


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    List of Ingredients




    1 cup graham cracker crumbs
    4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

    1 8-ounce package cream cheese
    1/3 cup sugar
    1 large egg
    2 tablespoons sour cream
    1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
    2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice

    Recipe



    In med bowl, stir together graham cracker
    crumbs and butter until evenly mixed. Spoon
    two rounded teaspoons into the mini-muffin
    tin depressions that have been sprayed with
    Pam or buttered. Press into the bottoms and
    up the sides.

    Softem the cream cheese. In mixing bowl,
    beat cream cheese and sugar about 3 minutes
    until very smooth, preferably with the whisk
    beater. Beat in the egg, scraping the sides
    of the bowl. Add vanilla and lemon juice and
    beat until incorporated. Add sour cream and
    beat just until the mixture is blended.

    Fill each graham cracker cup almost to the
    top with the batter, using a spoon or a
    reclosable quart-size freezer bag with a
    corner cut off.

    Set the mini muffing pans on baking sheets
    in the oven. Bake for ten minutes. For even
    baking, rotate the pans from top to bottom
    and front to back halfway through the baking
    period. The cakes will puff up but deflate
    on cooling, leaving shallow hollows perfect
    for filling with toppings.

    Cool completely in the pans on wire racks.
    Refrigerate for at least 3 hours.

    To unmold, fill the sink with a few inches
    of hot tap water. Carefully dip each pan
    into the water for about 30 seconds, being
    careful to not let the water get to the top
    of the pan.

    Use a small metal spatula to slip in between
    the sides of the cakes and the pan to pop
    out the cakes. There is no need to run the
    spatula around the sides; the hot water
    makes unmolding easy.Top with lemon curd or cranberry topping.

    It makes 24 mini-cheesecake Tassies that keep for a week in the refrigerator in an airtight container.

 

 

 


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