Watching Food Network, in particular Giada De Laurentis and she made these cute little cheesecakes. Bird Food really, but they were good. Now if I were motivated enough to make a real cheesecake that tasted like these.
Orange Chocolate Cheesecakes
Yield: 4 Servings
prep time:
cook time:
total time:
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup finely crushed chocolate wafers
- 2 Tbs butter (melted)
- 1/4 cup ricotta cheese
- 2 oz cream cheese
- 1/4 cup sugar (plus 2 tablespoons)
- 1 orange (zested)
- 1 egg
- Butter (for greasing)
Instructions
Special equipment: mini muffin tin
- Preheat the oven to 350
degrees F.
- Combine the crushed chocolate
wafers and the melted butter. Place a tightly packed teaspoon of the wafer
mixture into each mini-muffin cup and press down firmly.
- In a food processor combine
the ricotta cheese, cream cheese, 1/4 cup of the sugar, half of the orange
zest, and the egg. Blend until smooth.
- Lightly grease the sides of
the mini muffin tin with butter. Fill the cups with about 1 1/2
tablespoons of the cheesecake mixture. Place the mini muffin tin in a
baking dish and pour enough hot water in the baking dish to come halfway
up the sides of the mini muffin tin. Bake for 25 minutes.
- Transfer the mini muffin tin
to a wire rack and let cool for 30 minutes. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
Use a small knife to gently pop the cheesecakes out of the cups.
- Just before serving, combine the remaining orange zest with the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Top each individual cheesecake with about 1/4 teaspoon of the orange zest mixture and serve.
All photographs copyright Janet S. Grey.
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