Ingredients
cherry pie filling1 cup
cocoa powder3 tablespoons
cream cheese1.5 pkg
eggs2
gelatin1 t
heavy cream1 c
oreo cookies12
powdered sugar2 T
salt1 tsp
semi-sweet chocolate chips0.75 c
cream0.25 c
sugar0.6666667 c
butter1.5 T
vanilla extract1 t
water0.75 C
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
In a medium bowl, mix together crushed Oreos and melted butter.
Line a standard sized muffin tin with paper liners.
Add a heaping tablespoon of the cookie crumb mixture to each liner, press with the back of a spoon to form the crust.
Bake for 5 minutes.
Remove from the oven, set aside to cool while preparing the filling.2.
In a small bowl stir together sugar, cocoa powder and salt.
In a large mixing bowl add soften cream cheese and sugar/cocoa mix.
Beat with an electric mixer until smooth, add melted chocolate, heavy cream and sour cream, beat until combined.
Add eggs, one at a time and mix well after each, then add in vanilla.
Tap the bowl on the counter firmly a couple of times to release any air bubbles.3.
Divide batter between the cupcake liners (liners will be full).
Tap the pan a couple of times to be sure there are no large air bubble.
Bake for 15-20 minutes, until the centers jiggle just slightly.
(Original recipe called for baking time of 17-20 minutes, mine were done at the 15 minute mark.) Remove pan from oven, let cool at room temp.
for 1 hour.
Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours or until fully cooled before topping.4.
Top the cheesecakes: In a medium bowl whisk together heavy cream, powdered sugar and vanilla.
Place the bowl in the refrigerator, along with the beaters from your mixer, for 10-15 minutes to get everything well chilled.
Add gelatin to a small bowl, add water.
When gelatin absorbs all the water microwave for about 10 seconds to heat and melt the gelatin and make it pourable.
Set aside to cool a bit.
Beat the cream until just before it reaches soft peak stage, check your gelatin to be sure it has cooled slightly but is still a pourable consistency (if it solidified, just pop it back in the microwave for a couple seconds).
With the mixer running, slowly pour in the gelatin and finish whipping the cream to soft peak stage.5.
Top the cakes with a generous spoon full of the whipped cream, using the back of a spoon make a little nest indentation in the top for the cherry filling.
Add a spoon full of the cherry filling and you're done.
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