Mini Butterscotch Cheesecakes

Whether you lot are a pocket-size solid unit of measurement or "empty nesters" similar us, this scaled downward recipe for mini-butterscotch cheesecakes is a handy one.

I started scaling downward amount sized dessert recipes because nosotros got tired of eating the same dessert several nights inwards a row. This recipe (depending on how big you lot brand them) volition give you 5 or 6 cupcake sized cheesecakes.

Preheat oven to 325°F in addition to trouble a cupcake pan amongst newspaper liners.

GRAHAM CRACKER CRUST:
3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons melted butter
Mix crust ingredients in addition to split upward evenly between 5-6 newspaper liners (press crumbs downward to brand apartment crust within newspaper liners).

CHEESECAKE BATTER:
1/2 cup butterscotch baking chips
4 ounces regular cream cheese (room temperature)
2 tablespoons sugar
1 eggs slightly beaten (room temperature)
1 teaspoons all role flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon rum extract (see note)

Melt butterscotch baking chips (I utilization my microwave) simply until they are melted in addition to smooth, don't overheat. Set aside to cool downward a little.

Beat the cream cheese until it is really shine (1 infinitesimal or so?). Beat inwards the melted (and cooled) butterscotch chips in addition to saccharide until good mixed. Add the egg, flour in addition to extracts in addition to vanquish until smooth, but don't over beat.

Pour the batter over the crust in addition to fill upward newspaper liners about 80% full, or almost to the top. When these cheesecakes are done baking, they volition hold off domed, but equally they cool, they volition lose that "dome".

Bake for 25-30 minutes (my electrical oven takes xxx minutes). Of course of report it volition depend on how much you lot fill upward up the newspaper liners in addition to how hot your oven runs. Just bake them until they are set.

Cool inwards the pan for one-half hr or so, in addition to thus set them (still inwards the pan) inwards the refrigerator to chill for a few hours. Remove newspaper liners earlier serving.

NOTE: If you lot don't conduct maintain rum extract, simply double the vanilla.