gingerbread amaretto mini cheesecakes

Name: Gingerbread Amaretto Mini Cheesecakes
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 12 - vanilla wafers or chocolate sandwich cookies (i used 2 sleeves gingerbread cookies from a 15 1/4 oz pkg); 1 pound(s) cream cheese, room temperature; 1/2 cup(s) granulated sugar (i used 3/4 cup); 2 large eggs, room temperarure; 3 tablespoon(s) almond flavored liqueur ( or 2 teaspoon amaretto extract); 1 can(s) cherry pie filling (will not need it all)

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Rose Mary Mogan

Sauk Village, IL

Updated on Feb 16, 2014

The basic recipe for these Lil desserts came from the cookbook PHILADELPHIA CHEESECAKES,APPETIZERS & MORE. Because I had bought these Nabisco Gingerbread sandwich cookies, I wanted to incorporate them into the dessert. So I crushed them & used them as the crust. I love desserts with Amaretto & used that as a flavor enhancer. I topped them with cherry pie filling, you can use other flavors as well. This was a perfect ending dessert to COMPLETE my Valentines Dinner, since I had also made a CRAN-BLUEBERRY PIE. My husband loved the perfectly set table & SPECIAL VALENTINES DINNER MENU.

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prep time 15 Min

cook time 20 Min

method Bake

yield Makes 48 mini desserts

Ingredients

12 - vanilla wafers or chocolate sandwich cookies (i used 2 sleeves gingerbread cookies from a 15 1/4 oz pkg)
1 pound cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 cup granulated sugar (i used 3/4 cup)
2 large eggs, room temperarure
3 tablespoons almond flavored liqueur ( or 2 teaspoon amaretto extract)
1 can cherry pie filling (will not need it all)

How To Make gingerbread amaretto mini cheesecakes

Step 1

This is the book where the original recipe came from. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. NOTE: ORIGINAL RECIPE MADE 12 REGULAR SIZE MUFFIN TIN CHEESECAKES. I USED MINI MUFFIN TINS AND MADE 48 DESSERTS.

Step 2

These are the cookies that I crushed in a zip lock bag using a meat mallet, to use in this recipe . You may want to use a food processor for this step.
Step 3

These are the other basic ingredients for this recipe.
Step 4

Line a mini tart pan with paper liners. You will need 48. Add about 1 teaspoon or so of crushed cookie crumbs to each liner. Using a mini tart press, firmly press crushed cookies into bottom of each paper liner, and set aside till needed.
Step 5

Combine other ingredients, cream cheese, eggs extract & sugar, and beat together with a hand mixer till blended. Using a teaspoon carefully fill each cup with cheese filling.
Step 6

Place in preheated 350 degrees F oven & bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until center is almost set.
Step 7

Remove from oven, cool completely about 3 hours or so, then top with fresh fruit or canned pie filling as desired.
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