Moose tracks and Tater stacks: Cherry Cheesecake Cupcakes

{Cherry Cheesecake Cupcakes}

Today I made cherry cheesecake cupcakes for the first time! I found lots of recipes and decided to try to formulate my own little recipe. This made 10 cupcakes, now that they are done I see that I should have filled the cups fuller. If you fill the cups to the top this recipe should make 6 cupcakes.

Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees
Line a cupcake pan with cupcake papers

{Ingredients}

Crust-

Crumbs from 20 vanilla wafer cookies (I use the food processor to crush them)
1 Tablespoon and 1 teaspoon of sugar
3 Tablespoons of butter (melted)

Filling-

8oz Cream cheese, softened
1/2 Teaspoon of vanilla
1 Large egg
1/4 Cup of plain yogurt

Optional-

Can of cherry pie filling (or any pie filling that would be good on cheesecake!)

{Directions}

Directions for crust-

1. Mix the crumbs, sugar and butter in a bowl until combined. Take a tablespoon worth of the crust mixture and put it into each cupcake cup.

2. Press the crust mixture down and pack it firmly.

3. Bake for 8-10 minutes, remove and let cool

Directions for filling-

1. Beat the cream cheese until smooth

2. Add the yogurt, egg and vanilla

3. Bake for 15-20 minutes, until sides are set but the center should still wiggle around when you shake the cupcake pan.

Here they are in the cups!

Finished product, yummy!

{Review}

To me this isn't really the cupcake I was hoping for, it is more of a mini cheesecake; that being said, it was delicious! I would make it again if I am ever looking for a individual serving cheesecake. It could be fun to make these for some kind of a house party and then have different fruit toppings for people to choose from to make their own little dessert!

So here is my rating for this one-