Petite Chocolate Cherry Cheesecakes

Name: Petite Chocolate Cherry Cheesecakes
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 24 mini cheesecakes
Ingredients: 24 chocolate chip cookies, reduced fat (smaller to fit in bottom of paper cups); 1 (8 ounce) package reduced-fat cream cheese; 1/4 cup sugar; 1/4 teaspoon vanilla; 1 egg; 1/4 cup reduced-fat sour cream; 1/4 cup maraschino cherry, well drained finely chopped (about 14 cherries); 2 tablespoons miniature semisweet chocolate chips; 24 paper baking cups

Submitted by Proud Veterans wife

"I got this recipe out of The Pampered Chef Delightful Desserts (from easy to elegant). I used to work for them and have a ton of their recipes. I have not made many of them in such a long time because I mostly use zaar. So decided I would post my favorties on here (in hopes of using them again). I thought I would share them too hope you enjoy!"

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Ready In:: 35mins
Ingredients:: 9
Yields:: 24 mini cheesecakes

ingredients

24 chocolate chip cookies, reduced fat (smaller to fit in bottom of paper cups)
1 (8 ounce) package reduced-fat cream cheese
¹⁄₄ cup sugar
¹⁄₄ teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
¹⁄₄ cup reduced-fat sour cream
¹⁄₄ cup maraschino cherry, well drained finely chopped (about 14 cherries)
2 tablespoons miniature semisweet chocolate chips
24 paper baking cups

directions

Preheat oven to 325 place paper liners in cups of a muffin pan. Place one cookie in each liner.
In a small bowl mix cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, until well blended. Add egg, mix well. Stir in Sour cream.
Drain Cherries on paper towels chop finely, and drain again on paper towels before stirring into batter. Using a small scoop, top each cookie with a rounded scoop of batter, spread evenly. Sprinkle evenly with chocolate chips.
Bake 18-20 minutes or until filling is almost set. Cool completely in pan. Remove cheesecakes from pan and refrigerate 1 hour or overnight.

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Reviews

Excellent! Made this last night for a Christmas potluck lunch and it turned out wonderfully. The only thing I found odd is that one batch of this filling only makes 12 cheesecakes. Luckily I had enough to make another batch to fill the other twelve cups. And I did not overfill them, that is was a heaping tablespoon each. I also input the ingredients in my recipe builder on another site doubled and the calories came out roughly the same as it says here, so I can only assume there's a bit of a mix up here. Also, I couldn't find reduced fat cookies and regular cookies didn't fit. I smashed them in to make them fit. :-) Next time I'll try Chewy Chips Ahoy, they're pretty small cookies.... and they're just yummy. Tasty recipe though, will make again for sure! Don't forget to double!

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