Petite Chocolate Cherry Cheesecakes

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 24 chocolate chip cookies, reduced fat (smaller to fit in bottom of paper cups)
• 1 (8 ounce) package reduced-fat cream cheese
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup reduced-fat sour cream
• 1/4 cup maraschino cherry, well drained finely chopped (about 14 cherries)
• 2 tablespoons miniature semisweet chocolate chips
• 24 paper baking cups

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 place paper liners in cups of a muffin pan. place one cookie in each liner.
• 2 in a small bowl mix cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, until well blended. add egg, mix well. stir in sour cream.
• 3 drain cherries on paper towels chop finely, and drain again on paper towels before stirring into batter. using a small scoop, top each cookie with a rounded scoop of batter, spread evenly. sprinkle evenly with chocolate chips.
• 4 bake 18-20 minutes or until filling is almost set. cool completely in pan. remove cheesecakes from pan and refrigerate 1 hour or overnight.