I think Potluck foods should be easy to make, delicious, and easy to serve! Â People always ask if I bring cakes to holiday parties, BUT as much as I love cake I think a full cake is hard at parties. You need to have a knife to serve and a fork to eat it, SO I don’t bring cakes unless it’s specifically requested. I think something already in serving portions, like these Mini Cheesecakes, are perfect!
These are fast and easy to make, AND you can make them a few days before so you can get it done and not worry about them again (one less thing to put together the day of the event). Â Of course you don’t have to have a holiday party to make these, you can make them for your own family for fun! My kids love these little bite sized desserts!
Mini Cheesecakes
Ingredients
- 1 C crushed nilla wafers or graham cracker crumbs
- 16 oz full fat cream cheese
- 3/4 C granulated sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 1/2 C full fat sour cream
- 2 Tbsp granulated sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla
- cherry pie filling optional for serving
Instructions
- preheat the oven to 350
- spray your pans with bakers joy or line with mini liners
- Dust the bottom of each cup with some crushed nilla wafers
- Beat the cream cheese and sugar until it's creamy and smooth.
- Add the egg yolks and mix until JUST incorporated.
- spoon batter into each cup. It isn't a ton, shake the pan a bit to help spread the batter JUST a bit.
- Bake for 15 mins, and pull out.
- While the cheesecakes are baking mix the sour cream, sugar and vanilla. Once you pull the cheesecakes out plop 1 tsp of the sour cream mixture on top of each cake.
- Place back in the overn and cook for 5 more mins.
- Pull out and let cool to room tempurature, then refridgerate overnight (at least)
- Pop out of the pan and serve, adding a cherry for serving if you'd like (they are great plain as well!)
Nutrition
My husband isn’t a cheesecake fan, so when I cook an entire cheesecake I tend to be the only one eating it, and even I have a hard time with an entire cheesecake by myself! Â So the other thing I love to do with extra cheesecake is freeze them and dip them in chocolate, SERIOUSLY so good, I have an addiction to frozen cheesecake dipped in chocolate. And these little cheesecake bites are perfect to simply freeze and dip!
Potluck Recipes
- Pistachio Dessert Lasagna Recipe - April 18, 2020
- Homemade White Bread Recipe - April 17, 2020
- Easter Egg Pinata Cake with Chocolate Nest – recipe and video - April 8, 2020
Angie | Big Bear's Wife
Perfect little cheesecake bites!
Ashlee
Thanks! I think they are a pretty perfect dessert too!
Dedri
Ashlee, these look sooo yummy. Thanx for sharing x
Ashlee
thank! They are really very good, even my husband, who isn’t a cheesecake fan loves these. I think it’s the ratio of cherries to the small cheesecake bite!
Debra
I make something similar! Yum! I can never stop at just one. I love the Cherry Pie Filling on top! Delicious!
Ashlee
Nope, never, I think in the end you usually end up eatting as many of these little ones as you would just eating a normal slice! But somehow it SEEMS like less!
Summer
Ashlee these look so good! I just love cheescake and these are the perfect size for a potluck!
Ashlee
thanks summer! I agree, I love finger foods at parties, so much easier to serve that way!
Aly
I want to eat these right this minute!
Ashlee
Mmmm me to, the kids and husband ate them all the second I finished my photo’s! I need to get invited to a holiday party to make some more!
Yvonne @ TriedandTasty.com
Those look DELICIOUS! Pinning!
Ashlee
Thanks! I’ve been working on my photography all year, and I’m the most proud of this one!
Yvonne
You should be – this is fabulous! Great job!!
Ashlee
Thanks! now if I can just repeat it with my other pictures!
Magnolia
Hello! Thanks for sharing your recipe. Did you water-bath the mini cheesecake?
Thanks!
Ashlee
nope~
Ann
Did you use mini muffins pans ?
Ashlee
yup!
Jennifer Marotta
These taste so good!! Curious, how did you keep them from falling all apart though? They sat overnight and when I took them out of the pan they just crumble all up. Followed the recipe. The taste is great, just got a little messy. 🙂
Ashlee Marie
I just slide a thin spatula around the outside and they pop right out. Never had a problem