Mini Mint Cheesecake
Mini mint cheesecake dessert features rich cream cheese, a chocolatey crust, and chocolate-infused whipped cream to create deliciously cute individual treats.
Ingredients
Crust
- 1½ cups mint Oreo cookie crumbles about 20 cookies
- ⅜ cup granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons salted butter melted
Filling
- 1 cup white chocolate chips melted and cooled
- 16 ounces cream cheese softened
- ⅔ cups granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup sour cream
- 2 eggs
- 1 to 2 drops gel-based green food coloring
- 6 mint Oreo cookies finely chopped
Chocolate Whipped Cream
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 4 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 6 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 18 Andes mints for decorating
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325°F. Line muffin tins with cupcake liners.
- Melt the white chocolate chips in a small bowl by microwaving in 30-second increments and stirring between each interval until smooth and fully melted. Set aside to cool.
- Stir together Oreo crumbs, sugar, and melted butter. You can also do this in a food processor and chop the Oreos into crumbs there, then mix them with the butter and sugar.
- Scoop about 1 tablespoon of cookie crumbs into each cavity of the prepared muffin tins. Pack down the crumbs with a small mallet or the bottom of a cup.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth and fluffy.
- Add sugar, peppermint, and vanilla extract and beat until fully combined.
- Beat in the cooled white chocolate and sour cream. Taste the mixture (before adding the eggs) and adjust mint flavoring as needed.
- Add in 1 egg at a time and stir by hand until combined.
- Add 1 to 2 drops of food coloring and mix by hand, adding more coloring until the desired color is achieved.
- Fold in chopped mint Oreos.
- Scoop the cheesecake mixture over the packed Oreo crumbs in the muffin tin. Fill each tin almost to the top.
- Bake for 20 minutes until the cheesecakes are set and dry to the touch on top.
- Allow the cheesecakes to cool to room temperature (about 30 minutes), and then place them in the refrigerator to chill for 1 to 2 hours.
- To make the chocolate whipped cream, whip together heavy cream, cocoa powder, and powdered sugar until stiff peaks form. Pipe in swirls on each chilled cheesecake and then top with an Andes mint.
Notes
Parchment paper or foil-lined liners are the easiest to peel from the cheesecake filling.
Make sure you are using room temperature cream cheese, so you don’t end up with lumps in your cheesecake.
Overbeating the cheesecake will add too much air to the batter, leading to it puffing during baking and then cracking while cooling. I always switch to a spatula and mix the rest by hand once I add the first egg.
Oven temperatures vary and may need to be recalibrated periodically to ensure they are accurate. Make sure to keep a close eye on your cheesecake as the suggested baking time approaches.