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Mini Honey Nut Cheerios™ Cheesecakes

Prep 15 min
Total 60 min
Servings 12

Deliciously perfect for each other, the flavors of honey and nut complement smooth, creamy cheesecake in this easy treat. A touch of amaretto in the base and a gooey, caramel-y honey-almond topping puts these mini desserts over the top. MORE + LESS -

Cheeky Kitchen

August 17, 2016

Ingredients

1 1/4

cups Cheerios™ cereal or Honey Nut Cheerios™ plus 2 tablespoons, divided

tablespoons melted butter

1/3

cup sugar

ounces cream cheese, softened

eggs

can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk

tablespoons amaretto or vanilla

cup honey

2/3

cup chopped almonds

Steps

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1

Heat oven to 350°F. Line a 12-cup standard muffin tin with parchment liners.
2

Place 1 1/4 cups Honey Nut Cheerios™ a blender or food processor and pulse until you get fine crumbs. Pour crumbs into a bowl and mix with butter and sugar. Press crumb mixture into the bottom of each liner to form crusts.
3

In a large bowl or stand mixer, beat cream cheese until fluffy, add eggs, beating to incorporate, add sweetened condensed milk and 1 tablespoon amaretto. The mixture will be quite runny. Pour in each liner, on top of crust. Bake for 16-19 minutes, or until the center of each cheesecake has set. Remove and cool completely.
4

In a medium saucepan, toast almonds over medium-high heat, just until golden brown. Transfer to a small bowl. Add honey to the pan and cook, stirring constantly, until boiling. Boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat and stir in toasted almonds and amaretto. Drizzle honey-caramel and almonds over cheesecakes just before serving.

Nutrition Information

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Serving

Calories: 410
Calories from Fat: 170

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 19g; 29%
Saturated Fat 9g 45% Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol: 75mg; 25%
Sodium: 180mg; 7%
Potassium: 250mg; 7%
Total Carbohydrate: 52g; 17%
Dietary Fiber 1g 5% Sugars 48g
Protein: 6g

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 10%; 10%
Vitamin C: 0%; 0%
Calcium: 15%; 15%
Iron: 8%; 8%

Exchanges:

2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 1/2 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choice

3 1/2

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

More About This Recipe

The irresistible flavor combo of honey and nut, now in cheesecake form.

If you’ve ever, ever, like, ever ever craved a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerioes as if it were air, water and breath, yay you! You must be my soul human. And together, we must celebrate the wonderful perfection that is honey. And nut. And Cheerios.

That flavor combo. It’s just craveable. And now, I’ve gone and cheesecaked it. And it is so perfect, my heart hurts with gladness.

Because, last week, I gathered a few basic baking must-haves into a collective pile.

I mean, super basic. Egg, butter, cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, Honey Nut Cheerios.

Just the basic starting point of every worthwhile baking sesh.

I blended the Cheerios with a bit of butter and sugar, then pressed the mixture into the bottom of parchment cuppies.

Next: Egg, cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, amaretto. Would you believe this easy mixture makes literally, the most amazing cheesecake that ever was?

Because it does. It totally does. Sweet and soft, it bakes up with these perfectly moon shaped rounded tops.

As these sit and cool, the tops will crack ever so slightly, creating the most beautiful crevices for our caramel honey topping.

But first, the wrappers must be removed. Or actually, they don’t HAVE to be removed, but I think these little cheesecakes are so pretty when you can see the edges and the layers inside. You decide here how you’ll present your noms.

Toasted almonds get tossed together with caramelized honey, then drizzled atop the cooled cheesecake.

The result, my dear fellow Honey Nut Cheerios-loving humans, is honey-caramel-crunchy-almond perfection. And if you think that’s just too many hyphens all at once, just you wait until we top it all off with a smattering of Cheerios.

Honey-caramel-crunchy-almond-oaty-Cheerio happiness.

It just really is.

Brooke blogs at Cheeky Kitchen, where she shares crazy simple, healthy family recipes. She joined Tablespoon to share some of her best, so keep an eye on Brooke's profile to see what she cooks up next!