Individual Orange and Chocolate Cheesecakes
These tasty little individual Orange and Chocolate Cheesecakes are great for parties! We all gotta have a little treat now and then! Betcha can’t eat just one! 😀 Recipe courtesy Giada De Laurentiis Show: Everyday Italian Episode: Special Single Servings http://www.cookingchanneltv.com
Ingredients
  • 1/3cup finely crushed chocolate wafers. I use
  • Pamela’s Gluten Free Simplebites Mini Cookies
  • 2tablespoons buttermelted
  • 1/4cup ricotta cheese
  • 2ounces cream cheese
  • 1/4cup sugarplus 2 tablespoons
  • 1 orangezested
  • 1 egg
  • butterfor greasing
Instructions
  1. Special equipment: mini muffin tin
  2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  3. Combine the crushed chocolate wafers and the melted butter. Place a tightly packed teaspoon of the wafer mixture into each mini-muffin cup and press down firmly.
  4. In a food processor combine the ricotta cheese, cream cheese, 1/4 cup of the sugar, half of the orange zest, and the egg. Blend until smooth. Lightly grease the sides of the mini muffin tin with butter. Fill the cups with about 1 1/2 tablespoons of the cheesecake mixture. Place the mini muffin tin in a baking dish and pour enough hot water in the baking dish to come halfway up the sides of the mini muffin tin. Bake for 25 minutes. Transfer the mini muffin tin to a wire rack and let cool for 30 minutes. Refrigerate for 15 minutes. Use a small knife to gently pop the cheesecakes out of the cups.
  5. Just before serving, combine the remaining orange zest with the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Top each individual cheesecake with about 1/4 teaspoon of the orange zest mixture and serve.
Recipe Notes

Bon Appetit!!

Sue Seward
Gluten Free Lady

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