mini fudge cheesecakes

Last week I had a craving for cheesecake. It somehow felt too indulgent to make a big cheesecake so I made mini ones instead. I'm fully aware that I probably ate so many that I might as well have made a whole cheesecake, but please humour me.

There's absolutely nothing healthy about this recipe. Nothing. But sometimes you need to make something as unashamedly fattening and sweet as this because nothing else will hit the spot.

Creamy and fudgey with a buttery biscuit base (you know I had to go there!) What more could you want? I loved how cute and dainty these looked too.

I also used a fudge which was almost more like a tablet/candy, so it had that extra sugary, melt in the mouth quality. Perfect for an indulgent cheesecake.

Mini fudge cheesecakes

This is what I did:

150g crushed Hobnob biscuits

40-50g butter, melted

100g cream cheese

300ml double cream, lightly whipped

125g fudge, plus extra for grating on top. You can never have too much fudge!

First, cut thin strips of greaseproof paper/baking parchment and lay in the base of 9 muffin tin cups. This will help you to remove the cheesecakes from the tin later. To make the cheesecake bases, mix together the crushed biscuits and melted butter and press into the bottom of the cups. Put the tray in the fridge to chill while you make the filling.

Beat the cream cheese until soft. Grate the fudge and add roughly 100g of fudge to the cream cheese and scatter the rest over the bases. In a separate bowl, lightly whip the cream and carefully fold this into the cream cheese/fudge mixture. Once combined, spoon this mixture on top of all the cheesecake bases and grate a little more fudge on top if you're feeling decadent. Leave to chill in the fridge overnight, or at least 6 hours, before serving.

No bake mini strawberry cheesecakes

After the disappointment of the strawberry cheesecake cupcakes, I thought why don't I just make a damn cheesecake?

I initially intended to make a baked cheesecake, but it seemed a bit faffy last night, so I went for a naughty no bake. Determined not to be beaten by the cupcake either I decided to make them as mini cheesecakes using my muffin tin. Take that failed strawberry cheesecake cupcakes!

They're so much cuter as individual little cheesecakes and really tasty. I was a bit worried how they would taste as I wasn't following a recipe but I think the level of sweetness is just right. The flavour reminds me of petit filou :)

No bake mini strawberry cheesecakes

150g crushed digestive biscuits

40-50g melted butter

400g (two packs) philadelphia cheese

100g icing sugar

150g strawberries

300ml tub of double cream, lightly whipped

Makes roughly 10 mini cheesecakes using a muffin tin

Combine the biscuits and butter and press into the base of the tin. Beat the cream cheese and icing sugar until soft and chop the strawberries into it. Gradually fold in the cream. Taste and add extra strawberries/cream cheese/icing if you fancy it as my measurements are fairly rough. Spoon the mixture over the top of the biscuit bases. Leave to chill in the fridge for 6 hours (or overnight in my case.)