Easy No Bake Mini Cheesecakes
Triple layers of pink and white cheese cake filling are packed in a graham cracker crust lined jumbo sized silicone muffin pan and frozen until set. This no bake dessert is garnished with piped whipped cream, berries, or Easter Eggs ( Almond M & M’s.) Or a cute ramen noodle egg nest.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: none
- Total Time: 45 minutes + 3 hour freeze
- Yield: 6 mini cheesecakes 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: No Bake
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
Crust:
3/4 cup graham cracker or dark chocolate cookie crumbs ( 8 Oreo thins)
2 tablespoons granulated sugar ( only when using graham cracker crumbs)
3 tablespoons butter, melted
Filling:
2– 8 ounce packages Cream Cheese, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup heavy whipping cream
2 tablespoons cold water
1 – 1 ounce unflavored packaged gelatin
Americolor gel paste- medium pink or color of choice
Garnish:
1 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped
1/4 cup confectioner’s sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Fresh Strawberries or fruit of choice
For Easter Nest: tip # 1 M or Sultan Tube, Green Sprinkles, Almond Easter M & M’s or other candies and tips. For Spring- tip 1 M or Sultan tube, fresh berries with mint sprigs. Slice strawberries vertically leaving stem in tack for an easy garnish.
Ramen Noodle Nest: 1 package Ramen noodles without spice packet, 1/4 cup butter, 4 tablespoons peanut butter and marshmallow creme, 1 teaspoon vanilla or flavoring of choice. ( you can also add 1/4 cup melted mini chocolate chips ). Garnish with Cadbury Eggs.
Instructions
- Process cookies or graham crackers in food processor, place in small bowl.
- Melt butter in microwave for 15 seconds. Add to crumbs, stir to blend.
- Press 1-2 tablespoons of crumbs in bottom of each silicone muffin mold. Set aside.
- In large mixing bowl with paddle beater, add cream cheese and beat until smooth. Scrape down sides, continue beating to blend.
- Add granulated sugar, lemon juice, salt, and heavy cream. Beat until smooth.
- In small cup fill with 2 tablespoons cold water and one package unflavored gelatin, stir to blend. Place in microwave for 10 seconds to completely melt. Add cooled and liquid gelatin to cream cheese mixture. Beat to blend.
- Divide the cheesecake mixture into two bowls, fill one bowl 2/3 full, add pink food gel color. Leave remaining bowl of filling natural color. Stir with spoon to blend color.
- Fill 2 piping bags (with no tip ) one with pink filling and one natural. Pipe cupcake pan or silicone mold with one layer of pink filling, smooth with a spoon to cover cookie crust. Make sure to take a wet paper towel and wipe the sides of the mold to remove excess filling above the layer. Repeat process, with vanilla cheesecake as the middle color, then top with remaining pink layer.
- Smooth top of mold so the filling is flat, use an off set spatula for this process.
- Place in freezer and freeze at least 3 hours or over night.
- To serve, remove frozen cheesecake out of mold and allow to sit 20-30 minutes.
- Garnish with piped whipped cream and berries-decorations.
Whipped Cream Instructions: In chilled mixing bowl add heavy whipping cream and beat on low with a wire whisk attachment. Gradually add confectioner’s sugar and vanilla. Beat until stiff peaks form. Place in piping bag an pipe a nest or other preferred dollop.
Garnish as desired with candies or fresh berries and mint sprig.
Ramen Noodle Nest:
In microwave melt together butter, marshmallow creme, peanut butter and vanilla. Mix until smooth, then add crumbled raw ramen noodles. Stir to blend. Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper add Cadbury Eggs and refrigerate until set. If you add chocolate chips, mix the chips with marshmallow creme to melt.
Notes
- For Easter, create a bird nest with Cadbury Chocolate eggs for pretty spring idea.
- Can substitute cookie crumbs for graham crackers, if using grahams, add 1- 1/2 tablespoons granulated sugar. When using sandwich cookies with filling, remove filling and follow recipe. If you want to use the filling with the cookies do not add additional sugar
- Can substitute vanilla extract for Creme Bouquet concentrated flavoring
- A Sultan Pastry Tip is a Russian tip that pipes a round icing ring with a hollow center, perfect for making a nest or to fill with another filling.
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