Keep the kids busy in the kitchen over the school holidays with fun, delicious and easy baking recipes. This easy Mini Oreo Cheesecakes recipe is guaranteed to be a big hit! Not only are they mini perfect for your little minions, but it only requires 7 ingredients which is always a plus.
Ingredients:
Crust
- Oreos - crushed 1 and 1/2 cups
- Butter, melted 4 tbsp
Cheesecake
- Cream Cheese, softened 250g
- Vanilla Essence extract 1 1/2 tsp
- Sugar 1/3 cup
- 2 x Eggs
- Oreos, a little over 1/4 cup crumbed, plus 5 whole Oreos broken into larger pieces
Topping
- Oreos, add more broken on top if you desire.
What you need:
- Muffin Pan
- Muffin liners/patty cases
- Mixing bowl
- Spatula / Mixing Spoon
Directions:
Crust
- Preheat the oven to 200° C fan oven
- Line a muffin pan with 12 muffin liners
- Crush the Oreos (by putting them in a bag and using a flat based item to crush easily)
- In a mixing bowl, combine your crushed Oreos and melted butter until it is similar to coarse sand
- Put 1 - 2 tsp of Oreo crumbs in each muffin cup
- Use a 1/3 cup or similar base to press the mixture down flat and firmly in the pan
- Bake the crust for 5 minutes in the oven. Remove pan from oven and allow to cool while moving on to prep the cheesecake
Cheesecake
- In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth
- Beat in the sugar and vanilla essence until smooth
- Beat in the eggs
- Add the Oreo crumbs and larger Oreo pieces, mix all together with a spatula
- Place approx 2 tbsp of cheesecake batter into each muffin cup
- Top the cheesecakes with additional oreo pieces if you desire. (Why not?! For presentation purposes, this is a good choice...)
- Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes or until the centre of the cheesecake has a slight jiggle to it
8. Allow the cheesecakes to cool to room temperature and then place in the fridge to chill, loosely covered with cling wrap, for at least 2 hours before serving.
Now, it's time to indulge and enjoy every last bite, you and your minions! :)
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- Betty Crocker Measuring cup set of 5 - $3
- Betty Crocker Measuring Spoon set - $2
- Muffin Pan
- Patties
- Betty Crocker Mixing Bowl - $6
- Betty Crocker Whisk - $5
- Betty Crocker Spatula - $4
- Betty Crocker Cake Turntable - $8
