Mini Mascarpone Cheesecakes
Mini Mascarpone Cheesecakes are Homemade Cheesecake Recipes, perfect for your holiday dessert buffet. Top with a single raspberry and watch them disappear.
This Mini Cheesecake Recipe is ideal for parties. Placed in mini cupcake wrappers, they’re easy to pick up and devour in 2-3 bites. Of course, they’re so creamy and delicious, you’ll want another!
Why You’ll Love these Mini Cheesecakes
- You can make all sorts of variations of these mini mascarpone cheesecakes for numerous events. Bake some with graham cracker crusts, others with chocolate cookie crusts, and of course, these with Biscoff crusts.
- They can be flavored with a bit of dark chocolate, plain old vanilla extract, or the extract of your choice.
- They are two-bite, scrumptious little numbers. No forks needed!
Tips for Making Mini Cheesecake Bites
I have loads of cheesecake recipes on this blog, and over the years I’ve found a few key steps that will make your cheesecake the creamiest, most luscious dessert you can make. For a full-sized cheesecake, you might enjoy this Blueberry Swirl Cheesecake or the Strawberry Topped Cheesecake. This Ganache Topped Cheesecake is to die for! And these Mini Vanilla Bean Cheesecakes are also fun individual desserts.
- First, you must get out your refrigerated ingredients at least an hour before you plan to mix them. This is especially important for the eggs and cream cheese.
- PRO-Tip: Having the ingredients at room temperature allows them to mix in smoothly. You want the cream cheese totally incorporated, with no tiny white bits in the batter.
- PRO-Tip: It’s also imperative not to over-mix the batter. So if you see white bits in your batter, resist the urge to turn your mixer on high and beat the batter to death.
- Overbeating will add air into the mixture, thus changing the texture of the cheesecake.
- PRO-Tip: If you’re using a stand mixer, always mix with the paddle attachment. It will mix your batter without adding any excess air, making a dense, creamy cheesecake.
- Add your eggs one at a time, and mix just until each is incorporated.
- To make a white chocolate version, add 2 ounces melted white chocolate and 1 1/2 teaspoons Frangelico liqueur (optional). Use Oreo or graham cracker crumbs for the crust, if desired.
- To make a chocolate version, add 2 ounces melted and slightly cooled semisweet chocolate to the batter, and consider a crust make of Oreos or Nabisco Famous Wafers. Top with a dab of ganache made with 2 ounces semisweet chocolate and 2 tablespoons heavy cream, then add a fresh raspberry or M&M to garnish.
- To make they extra pretty for parties, top them with small dollops of raspberry coulis and perfectly plump red raspberries. They may also be decorated with dark chocolate and white chocolate ganache, then crowned with colorful M & M’s. Red and green candies are perfect for Christmas, but fall colors work for Halloween and Thanksgiving or pastels for Easter. You get the picture.
- Made with storebought or my homemade mascarpone gives an Italian flair.
- For company, set each cheesecake into festive holiday wrappers. You may leave on the original wrapper.
- When I make a full sized cheesecake, I bake in a bain marie or water bath to help prevent cracking of the surface. With minis, it’s not needed as these don’t tend to crack plus the tops will be garnished!
Best Holiday Desserts
Cakes
- Brown Sugar Pumpkin Cheesecake with Bourbon and Caramel Sauce
- Chocolate Peppermint Ice Cream Cake Roll
- Bourbon Cajeta Apple Butter Goat Cheese Cheesecake
- Mini Mascarpone Cheesecakes
Cookies
Desserts
Pies and Tarts
Helpful Tools:
- Electric hand mixer (I use a 9-speed mixer from KitchenAid)
- Cooling rack
- Mini Muffin Tins
Mini Mascarpone Cheesecakes Recipe
Versatile mini mascarpone cheesecakes! Garnish to suit your whim!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Biscoff cookie crumbs
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons mascarpone cheese, at room temperature
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoons flour
- 1 egg, at room temperature
- Raspberry sauce, raspberries for garnish
Instructions
- Line mini muffin tin with 20 paper liners. Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 325º.
- Mix cookie crumbs and melted butter. Place 1 teaspoon into the bottom of each lined muffin cup. Tamp it down to cover bottom of cup and to compress the crumbs. Set aside.
- With an electric mixer, beat cream cheese and mascarpone in a medium bowl till smooth. Mix in sugar, then vanilla. Mix in the flour. Add egg and beat till just combined.
- Scoop out rounded tablespoons of batter and carefully place over crusts. Smooth tops with offset spatula. Bake for 18-20 minutes till puffed, but not browned. Remove from oven to cooling rack.
- When cool, remove cheesecakes from tin to decorate. Top each with a small dollop of raspberry sauce and one ripe raspberry. Alternatively you can make a white chocolate ganache by melting 2 ounces chopped white chocolate and 1 tablespoon heavy cream and use instead of the raspberry sauce.
Notes
If serving to company, drop each cheesecake into a festive mini cupcake liner. You may leave the original liner on.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
10Serving Size:
2 cheesecakesAmount Per Serving: Calories: 224Total Fat: 16gSaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 59mgSodium: 158mgCarbohydrates: 18gFiber: 1gSugar: 11gProtein: 3g
44 Comments on “Mini Mascarpone Cheesecakes”
Very festive, indeed! These look perfect for the upcoming season!
Very cute, I bet they disappear fast:@)
These tiny goodies are so cute. I just want to stare at them. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, Liz. 🙂
These really grabbed my attention because I made something similar myself last weekend. Yours look absolutely perfect! I love anything ‘mini’, not least because you can eat them without guilt. What a great recipe for the holidays!
Yummy.
There are times when I wish I was in the States and enjoying Thanksgiving buffets like this – especially with these wee cheesecakes. They look and sound super, Liz. Also love mini sweet treats. End up eating just as many but the guilt factor is less, at least! Enjoy yourselves! xo
Hi Liz, these mini cheesecakes look delicious, perfect for the holidays!
I have a coworker who does a family progressive dinner every year during the holidays. I love the idea!
These would be perfect for my holiday table! They are so pretty and I am sure they are tasty. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Dear Lizzy, That certainly looks delicious; perfect for the holiday table.
Have a very Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving. xo Catherine
Love it, Liz. I’m a big fan of mascarpone and these cheesecakes are too cute and delicious!
These look great! I love mini desserts. I’ve never made mascarpone cheesecake but it sounds delicious.
those are so cute! Perfect for a holiday party
I love the idea of progressive dinners! The first time I understood this, was in “Desperates housewives” I would like to participe it, it sounds like you have so much fun 😉
Love your mini cheesecakes, I wish they disparated en 1 minute! They are so cute !
So fun for the holidays. I love your tip about freezing them to make removing the wrapper easier.
These are so cute – picture perfect!
Aww Lizzy what besutiful and cute treats!!
xo
Love these mini-bites Liz – they’re beautiful and perfect for any holiday dessert table!
So cute! Mini desserts are the best for the holidays!
Perfect little bites, Liz! And I am impressed that you made your own mascarpone! I have yet to delve into cheesemaking, but if these guys are at the end of the journey, I might have to get started!