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Strawberry Cream Cheesecake Tians

Cuisine: dessert
Author: Susan Pridmore

Ingredients

Graham Cracker Crust

  • 1 cup honey graham cracker crumbs I crumbled honey graham crackers with a rolling pin.
  • 4 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • lemon zest from ½ lemon
  • pinch salt

Cream Cheese Filling

  • 6 ounces cream cheese room temperature
  • 2 ounces ricotta cheese
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 8 medium fresh strawberries

Whipped Cream Topping

  • ¼ cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1 teaspoon sugar

Instructions

  • Mix together all of the ingredients for the Graham Cracker Crust in a small bowl, and set aside.
  • Mix together all of the ingredients for the Cream Cheese Filling in a small bowl, except for the strawberries, spoon the filling into a small baggie or piping bag and set aside. Scrape the filling to the bottom of the baggie or pipe bag. Any hard straight edge will work, even a ruler.
  • Hull the strawberries, slice in half lengthwise, and slice each half lengthwise into thin slices. Set aside.
  • Whip the whipping cream in a small bowl using a hand mixer until the cream starts to considerably thicken. Add the sugar and continue whipping until firm enough to pipe. Place in a piping bag fitted with a piping nozzle.
  • Now you're ready to assemble. I used small parfait glasses 3" in diameter and 4" tall including the stems. Place 1 very packed tablespoon of graham cracker mix in the base of the glass and pack it down with something flat. I used the bottom of a rose vase. Snip one of the corners of the baggie containing the cream cheese filling, and pipe 2 tablespoons of filling on top of the graham cracker mixture by pushing the filling through the cut opening at the corner. By careful not to make a large cut when you snip off the corner. A small cut works very well. Arrange the strawberry slices on top by fanning them in a circle, and pipe a dab of whipping cream on top.
  • Enjoy!

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