Mini Smores Milk Chocolate Cheesecakes Baked Until the Center Springs Back

Mini Smores Milk Chocolate Cheesecakes Baked Until the Center Springs Back keeps the shopping list focused on graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and unsalted butter melted. It serves 12 Cheesecakes.

Count on 30 minutes of prep, 15 minutes of cooking, about 45 minutes from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

For the Crust

• ¾ cup graham cracker crumbs
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
• pinch salt

For the Cheesecake

• 12 oz cream cheese softened
• ½ cups sugar
• 2 large eggs
• ¼ cup heavy cream
• ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
• 4 ½ oz milk chocolate
• Mini marshmallows

How the cooking goes

1. Heat the oven 350°.
2. Mix all the ingredients for the crust together in a medium mixing bowl and press a rounded tablespoon of the mixture into each of the partitions of a mini cheesecake pan.
3. In the bowl of a food processor fitted with the “dough” blade process the cream cheese until it is soft and smooth. Add the sugar and process. Add the eggs one at a time, running the processor between each addition.
4. Put the cream, flour, salt and vanilla and process until the texture looks smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
5. With the motor running pour in the chocolate in a steady stream. Transfer the mixture into a large measuring cup for easy pouring.
6. Tip an equal amount into each mini cheesecake compartment until almost full. They will puff up in the oven but will deflate as they cool.
7. Oven-bake 15 -20 minutes in the preheated oven until the center of the cakes are no longer liquid. Allow it to cool in the pans for 15 minutes or as soon as the outsides are cool enough to touch. Ignore the manufactures directions and just press up from the bottom of the pan to get a seamless release, no need for a knife.
8. While the cakes are still warm, press several mini marshmallows on the top of each. The warmth of the cheesecake will be enough to slightly melt the marshmallows and they will adhere to the top of the cake!
9. You toasted mine with a blow torch (any excuse is a good excuse to use it!) but you could also do it under the broiler.
10. Serve ambient temperature or chilled if you prefer. They are more “s’more like” if they are ambient temperature but this is a personal preference.

After it comes off the heat

Chill it for the time the method names before serving. Keep leftovers covered in the refrigerator.

If you want another plate from Cakes, open Moist Chocolate Cake Baked Until the Center Springs Back and Guinness Chocolate Cake Baked Until the Center Springs Back.