Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes

  • Total: 6 hr
  • Prep: 25 min
  • Inactive: 4 hr
  • Cook: 1 hr 35 min
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Ingredients

18 gingersnap cookies

8 ounces cream cheese, softened

2/3 cup granulated sugar

1/3 cup packed light brown sugar

Fine salt

2 eggs, at room temperature

1 1/4 cup, plus 1/3 cup sour cream

1/3 cup heavy cream

1 15-ounce can pure pumpkin puree

1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice, plus more for dusting

Directions

  1. 1. Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. Line 18 muffin cups with paper liners. Place 1 whole cookie in the bottom of each lined cup.
  2. 2. In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon fine salt on medium-high speed until smooth and creamy, 2 to 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides, reduce speed to low and beat in the eggs, 1 at a time, until combined. Beat in 1/3 cup sour cream and heavy cream. Stir in the pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice until smooth. Divide evenly among cookie-lined paper cups, filling almost all the way to the top.
  3. 3. Bake until the filling is just set, 40 to 45 minutes. A sharp knife inserted into the center will come out moist, but clean. Top each cheesecake with some of the remaining 1 1/4 cup sour cream, about 1 heaping tablespoon, using a spoon to gently spread. Cool completely in tins on a wire rack. Refrigerate until cold, 4 hours, or overnight. Top with a dusting of pumpkin pie spice.

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Anonymous

Mine taste good, but I won’t make them again. First, you have to check that your cookies are the same size as your muffin tins;  my ginger snaps were too big. The “muffins” are wet on the bottom and very messy to get out of the paper cups. They might fool people into thinking they’re finger food, but everyone will have to wash their hands if they do pick then up. The topping needs to be put on after they cool, although the recipe doesn’t say so. I’m with the crowd that suggests something other than sour cream as a topping. And crushed ginger snaps as a garnish is a great idea. 

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