Recipe - Mini Cheesecakes (Phillies Free)

12 Reduced fat vanilla wafers
3 pack (8oz.) Philadelphia fat
free cream cheese; softened
Three fourths cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
3 Eggs
1 cup Assorted cutup fruit or
reduced calorie cherry pie
filling

Place wafers, flat side down, on bottom of each of 12 paperlined muffin
cups.

Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed
until well blended. Add eggs; mix just until blended. DO NOT OVERBEAT
AFTER ADDING EGGS.

Pour over wafers, filling each cup.

Bake at 325 degrees F. for 30 minutes. Cool before removing from pan.
Refrigerate several hours or overnight. Top with fruit just before serving.
12 servings.

Variations:

Lemon: Stir 1 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice and Three fourths tsp. grated lemon peel into
batter.

Pumpkin: Mix Three fourths cup canned pumpkin, Three fourths tsp. ground cinnamon and dash
EACH ground cloves and nutmeg in with cream cheese. Omit fruit.

Cherry: Omit fruit. Top with 1 can (20 oz.) reduced calories cherry pie
filling before serving.

Quick Crust: Substitute 1 (9 oz.) readytouse graham cracker crumb crust
(extra serving size) for crumbs. Makes 10 servings. (Adds 6g fat per
serving.)

Honey Crunch: Omit sugar. Mix One half cup honey in with cream cheese. Omit
fruit. Top with Three fourths cup lowfat granola ceereal; drizzle with 1 Tbsp. honey
before serving.

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