Mini Crème Brûlée Cheesecakes
Come and try these mini crème brûlée cheesecakes! They're super creamy, luscious, and not overly sweet. Apart from the crackling caramel sound that it makes when you break into it, another best part is, it's super easy to make. Do try!
Servings: 12 pieces
Ingredients
The Base
- 5.3 oz digestive biscuits (150 g) or use graham crackers
- ¼ cup butter (60 g), melted
The Filling
- 1 lb cream cheese (450 g), room temperature
- ½ cup sugar (100 g)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs , room temperature
- 2 yolks , room temperature
- ½ cup whipping cream min 35% fat (125 ml), chilled
Other
- some sugar , for caramel topping
Instructions
The Base
- Place biscuits inside a ziploc bag and smash it with a rolling pin into a fine texture. Pour into a bowl together with butter and mix well.
- Divide evenly into 12 muffin liners in a muffin pan. Using the back of a small spoon, press the mixture evenly. Set aside.
The Filling
- Add cream cheese into a bowl and whisk just until it gets creamy. Gradually add sugar and continue to mix but don't over do it.
- Now add in the vanilla extract, eggs and yolks one by one, mixing just until well combined. Set aside.
- In another bowl, whisk whipping cream until stiff peaks. Add it into the cream cheese mixture and fold everything together. Using an ice cream scoop, fill in the muffin pan until the top. Gently shake the pan to even out the top surface.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 300ºF (150ºC) for 22 minutes or until when you gently shake the pan, the cheesecakes wiggle a bit and the center look not as set. Remove from the oven and leave to cool to room temperature. Then place in the freezer for 1 hour.
Topping
- Remove the liners and place the cheesecakes on a tray. Sprinkle some sugar on top. Using a blowtorch like this one, start heating up the sugar by moving it all around the top until it turns golden brown. Serve immediately.
How To Get It Right
- Please refer to my post above for tips on how to get this right the first time.
Nutrition
Calories: 322.6kcal | Carbohydrates: 23.2g | Protein: 4.9g | Fat: 23.7g | Saturated Fat: 13.3g | Cholesterol: 120.4mg | Sodium: 230.3mg | Potassium: 97.6mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 15.8g | Calcium: 62.6mg | Iron: 0.7mg