Nigella's Mini Raspberry Cheesecakes

[kima]

I haven't made these but don't they look good!! I am sure looking forward to her new book in November!

Raspberry-Topped Mini Cheesecakes



Time: About 40 minutes, plus 2 hours' refrigeration

2 cups graham cracker crumbs (8 ounces graham crackers, finely crushed)
1 stick butter, melted
8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
1/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 tablespoons sour cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 to 3 teaspoons lime juice, or to taste
2 tablespoons seedless raspberry jelly
24 small mint leaves, optional
24 (about 3/8 cup) fresh raspberries.

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a food processor or mixer, combine graham cracker crumbs and butter. Process until mixture clumps like wet sand.

2. Place a tablespoon of crumb mixture in each well of a pan for 24 mini-muffins. Using a spoon or fingers, press mixture on bottom and up sides of each well to make a tartlike shell for filling. Refrigerate pan while making filling.

3. In a clean processor bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar, egg, sour cream, vanilla and lime juice. Process until very smooth. Adjust lime juice to taste, and mix again to blend. Spoon enough filling into each muffin well for just the top edge of the crumb shell to show. Bake until cakes are set, about 10 minutes. Remove from oven, and cool in pan on a wire rack. Transfer pan to refrigerator, and chill 2 to 3 hours.

4. To remove cheesecakes, turn pan upside down, and rap firmly on back with a spoon. Place cheesecakes on a serving tray.

5. Place jelly in a small pan over low heat until melted. Put a dab (about 1/8 teaspoon) in center of each cake. Place a mint leaf on jelly and a raspberry on top. Refrigerate.

Yield: 24 cheesecakes.




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"At any moment, something awful can happen to you. Enjoy the moments that something awful isn't happening." Nigella Lawson

[lonetree1353]

Just in case you are like me and like to "look" this way. These look very yummy. I might just have to go and buy a mini muffin/tart pan. I am looking forward to her new book as well as Ina Garten's new one. This BB is a very very "bad" influence on the size of my cookbook collection

[Vicanddi]

These mini cheesecakes look very pretty...and I bet they taste as good as they look! Thanks for sharing the recipe....would be a great dessert idea for entertaining.

Is the serving size one mini cheesecake? If so, the nutritional info isn't that bad (I put it in MasterCook), for all of the full fat ingredients in the recipe. Here are the stats..

Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 116 Calories; 8g Fat (63.2% calories from fat); 2g Protein; 9g Carbohydrate; trace Dietary Fiber; 29mg Cholesterol; 113mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1/2 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 0 Non-Fat Milk; 1 1/2 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates.

[greysangel]

If only I could eat these mini cheesecakes and still look like her

Sounds delicious Kima!

[kima]

My only thought is that they might not come out of the pan as easily as the recipe says...I envision some mushed mini cheesecakes. Not that that would affect the taste.

[Grace]

Someone please tell me about her new cookbook? What's it going to be called? Is she going to have another new show too to go along with it (I HOPE!)? Please give me the 411.....

[lonetree1353]

Grace her new book is called "Feast: Food To Celebrate Life"



I, too, hope she makes some new shows as well.