Best Mini Baked Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe

This will become your favorite dessert, one of our most popular recipes because it's so easy to make these creamy and decadent mini chocolate cheesecakes. Hi guys, welcome back to our channel and in case you're new here my name is Marco and today I'm going to make one of our most requested recipes, recipe that everybody loves from us which is cheesecake. I'm going to make mini chocolate cheesecakes. So let's start with the base, I'm going to start with Oreo cookies but if you prefer any other type of cookie just go ahead and use another type. I'm going to use the Oreo with the filling and everything and to make it easy since they have a filling and it can be a bit sticky I'm going to make it in a food processor but if it's a normal cookie without filling you can put it in a ziploc bag and just heat it until you get the same result, crumbs. Once the crumbs are ready we put them in a bowl and you see the result should be very fine crumbs that look like this and now to this I'm going to add some melted butter and I'm going to mix everything well. Once everything is properly mixed it's going to resemble the texture of wet sand. So now I'm going to distribute the base in 12 equal parts using this muffin pan and now with the back of a small spoon I'm going to compress the base against the paper casing and now that the base is ready I'm going to take it to the freezer to firm up a bit for half an hour meanwhile I make the filling. So here I'm chopping some chocolate in my case I'm using 55% cacao but you can use stronger chocolate 70% if you want. Just know that might give a slight of a bitter touch to the cheesecake because obviously the chocolate is stronger. So now I put the chopped chocolate in this bowl and I'm going to melt it in the microwave. I use a very low power and do it bit by bit while mixing in the microwave but you can do it in the double boiler if you prefer that method. Once the chocolate is properly melted like this I'm going to set it aside to cool while I prepare the rest of the ingredients. Okay to continue with the filling here I have cream cheese and this is Philadelphia brand but it can be other brand. The point is have your cream cheese at room temperature because otherwise it's going to be very difficult to mix it properly with the rest of the ingredients and use full fat one don't use cream cheese that is light or whipped one made for spreading the regular one. And now I'm going to mix this cream cheese to make it fluffier and lighter. I'm going to add sour cream, sugar, vanilla extract and a bit of salt. And now I'm going to mix everything. Something important in this recipe to avoid the cheesecake cracking is don't over mix anything. Just mix until everything is well incorporated but don't overdo it. Try not to incorporate air into the mix. I like to stop now and then and scrape the edges of the bowl, the bottom of the bowl just to make sure that everything is well incorporated. Now I'm going to add the melted chocolate and I'm going to mix everything well. Now I'm going to lightly whisk these eggs. Basically you just want to mix the egg yolk with the white. Don't overdo it so that you don't incorporate too much air. So now I'm going to add the eggs with the rest of the filling and I'm going to fold everything with a spatula. In case you didn't know we created a cheesecake ebook with a compilation of all our recipes with tips and all the secrets to make cheesecake like a pro. I'm going to leave a link below in case you want to check it out. So when you finish incorporating the eggs it should look like this. Now I divide the batter evenly into the muffin pan. I will shake it a bit to even the top out. And now I will take them to a preheated oven at 285 Fahrenheit for 25 minutes or until you shake the pan a bit and the center still wiggles a bit. And here they are after 25 minutes in the oven. Now I'm going to let them cool on this rack and then chill them in the fridge for a minimum of four hours, preferably eight hours. Now this is completely optional but you can decorate it with some whipped cream with chocolate and a piece of chocolate on top. Wow so creamy, delicious, perfectly balanced the chocolate and the sweetness. This is a delicious delicious cheesecake. You need to try it.