Mini Cherry Cheesecake

Wowza! It's been awhile...

My very sweet husband bought me a new digital camera for my birthday and I haven't had a chance to install the software... until tonight! The camera is fabulous, but it still doesn't help with my rookie photography skills. Once I figure out how to take nice pictures without steam and awful flash I'll let you know!

So back to my updates...

I'm not a huge cheesecake fan. But I do love the little refridgerated cheesecake bites you can buy at the gas station. Yes, the gas station. I think they're called Philladelphia Cream Cheese Bites (???). I may be wrong.

Regardless, this version of yummy little mini cheesecakes turned out adorable and most of all, delicious!



Ingredients:

• 1 package of vanilla wafers (I only used about 1/3 package... you could easily subsitute graham crackers if you have them instead)
• 1 package cream cheese (8 ounces I believe)
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup sugar (my 1/4 cup was very full)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Cherry pie filling (use as needed... I bought a can of it and had plenty of leftovers.... which I ate on vanilla wafers. bad bad bad.)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line muffin tin with paper liners
• Crush vanilla wafers and place a decent amount in each paper cup
• In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar, egg and vanilla until light and fluffy
• Fill each paper cup with mixture almost to the top
• Bake 15 minutes
• Cool completely (they look a little puffy and sad when they come out, but trust me they will set like cheesecake after cooling!)
• Top with cherry pie filling

Oh yum! So good! Just be careful... they're addicting!

Adapted from: Cooks.com