January 2, 2014

It’s a good start,

It’s a good start,

to a new year. We celebrated in our low-key way. Playing board games, watching a movie, staying up to watch the ball drop, and make plenty of noise. We also made a new treat. Mini Cheesecakes!

Avery Lane Blog: mini cheesecakes

You can get the recipe here at PBS.org

They were super easy and pretty quick, considering it’s homemade cheesecake.

Avery Lane Blog: mini chessecakes
make the graham crumbs
Avery Lane Blog: mini cheesecakes
add melted butter, next time I will add a little more than the recipe called for – the crust was too crumbly
put a rounded teaspoon of crust mixture in mini cupcake papers and press firmly
Avery Lane Blog: mini cheesecakes
make filling–make sure cream cheese is soft and room temp–otherwise it will most definitely have lumps
Avery Lane Blog: mini cheesecakes
after baking crumb crust for 5 min. take out of oven and put filling on top
Avery Lane Blog: mini cheesecakes
bake until no longer wiggly in center–they will be puffed up and then sink to look like this. let sit 10 min, place in freezer until no longer warm
Avery Lane Blog: mini cheesecakes
add jam or preserves-we used my daughter’s homemade jam from fresh raspberries that she entered in the fair

They were delicious! Next time, I will make more crust per batch of filling. We had left over filling, probably enough to fill 12 more cups. My daughter wants to make these for her 4-H competition coming up. She’ll have no trouble making this recipe. It’s very straight forward and fun 🙂

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