Mini Cheesecake Easter Baskets

 I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter today.

After church services we went to our daughter's home

where she treated the family 

to the most 

delicious meal

of Cuban food.

For my part of the celebration,

I was asked to bring 

dessert.

 Our family loves cheesecake

so I combined a few recipe ideas together

and made

Mini Cheesecake Easter Baskets

 So easy to do.

 I saw this recipe

Philadelphia 3-Step Easter Baskets

The fam does not like coconut, but I 

liked the idea of using 

shoestring licorice for the basket handles.

 Then I saw this recipe for

Philadelphia 3-step Mini Cheesecakes

and combined the idea 

for the base.

 Instead of using the traditional Nilla Wafer cookies

they suggested

Oreo's 

for a chocolaty bottom.

First, fill a muffin tin with a 

paper lined cup

and drop a cookie in.

 Mix up a batter 

using cream cheese,

sugar, vanilla and eggs.

 Add a dollop of the cream cheese mixture 

on top of each cookie,

 and bake.

Yes, it's that easy!

 I could not find shoestring licorice at the grocery store,

so I improvised and used sections of

 Pull N' Peel  Twizzlers

 They pushed softly into the sides of the muffin cups and stayed in a bow shape.

I also used frozen raspberries and 

blueberries

which kept the mess down.
The berries thawed quickly
and were ready to eat by the
time we arrived at our daughter's house.

 Within about 10- 15 minutes,

Mr. Cactus and I had 

assembled an entire tray.

Add a little decorative toothpick

for a fun Easter treat.

These could also be used for

any Spring Buffet

or even 

a baby shower.