Cheesecake cupcakes
Delicious creamy mini cheesecakes with two different tastes: morello cherry and apple crumb
Servings: 12 cupcakes
Ingredients
For the crust and the filling
- 5,6 oz/ 160 g vanilla wafers, or honey wafers (see notes)
- 14 oz/ 400 g cream cheese
- ⅔ cup/ 160 g sour cream
- ¾ cup/ 150 g granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
For the apple crumb topping:
- 2 tablespoon brown sugar
- ½ apple
- 2 tablespoon cookie crumbs, or graham cracker/ bread crumbs
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
For the morello cherry topping:
- 2 tablespoon mini chocolate chips
- ¼ cup/ 80 g morello cherry jam
Instructions
- Line a 12 cup muffin tin with paper cases. Preheat the oven to 360° F/ 180°C.
- Break the wafers into small pieces or into large crumbs (by hand or in a food processor) and spread them at the bottom of each muffin case.
- Combine cream cheese with sugar and whisk until smooth. Add vanilla extract, and sour cream. Continue whisking until all ingredients are well incorporated. At the end add the egg and whisk until just combined.
- Spoon the batter into the muffin cases, over the wafer crumbs.
- Cut the apple into very small pieces and combine it with the brown sugar, cinnamon and cookie/ cracker crumbs. Spread the topping over 6 of the cupcakes.
- Sprinkle the mini chocolate chips onto the other half of the cups.
- Bake for around 30 minutes or until the mini cheesecakes are slightly jiggly only in the center. Switch off the oven and let them stay inside for another 30 minutes with the door half open. Remove from the oven and from the muffin tin and let them cool on a rack for an hour or so.
- Refrigerate in closed containers for 4-6 hours.
- Spread morello cherry jam on top of the cheesecakes with chocolate chips before serving.
Notes
- Store the cheesecake cupcakes in closed containers in the fridge.
- Vanilla wafers can be broken into crumbs in a food processor. If using honey or caramel wafers, that might not work as they are sticky so you would need to simply break them into pieces.
- You can use any other jam instead of morello cherry jam.
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