I like cheesecake, but I can only take three bites and I’m done. I wanted to try to make a salted caramel cheesecake because I have become obsessed with salted caramel, in fact everyday for two weeks, I stopped by Starbucks and bought myself a Salted Caramel Frap. Anyway, I made my own caramel sauce recipe which I used to make this cheesecake which you can find here.
I have made cheesecake many times in a regular sized pan and it turned out great, however making mini cheesecake was a bit of a challenge. Some of the few challenges were cracking in the middle of the cheesecake, cheesecake sinking in the middle, and the cheesecake falling apart.
I actually wanted to give up, but I told myself it’s worth it! I realized my first mistake was leaving it in the oven too long, apparently MINI cheesecakes only bake only for 15-20 minutes and that is why it was cracking and sinking in the middle. The cheesecake falling apart only happened because I didn’t wait for an hour for it to solidify. I also made a water bath, so that probably helped. In the end, after many attempts of making the Mini Salted Caramel Cheesecake, the first bite was totally worth it!
I partnered with my friends from YouTube Hani, Cobi, Barbara, and Sav to make a Thanksgiving Dinner. So if you don’t have a menu for Thanksgiving here are some healthy, but delicious food for you and your family!
Mini Salted Caramel Cheesecake
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 pack and half of cream cheese (12 oz), softened
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 egg
- 1/8 cup caramel
- 1/2 cup graham crackers, crushed
- 1 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- In a medium sized bowl, place graham crackers, butter and mix with fork, then place into mini cheesecake pans.
- In a large bowl add cream cheese and beat until mixed. Add white sugar, heavy whipping cream, egg, caramel and mix until well incorporated. Then add to the cheesecake pans to the rim.
- Bake for 15-17 minutes, sit for an hour, and serve.
Notes
Cream cheese needs to be at room temperature before adding it to the mix because it will form little clumps which makes the batter clumpy.
Could I use this recipe to make a regular sized cheese cake?
Hi Danielle, this recipe was made specifically for mini cheesecake pans, if you don’t have any you can use muffin pans.
How many cupcakes does this recipe make?
Hi Corina,
Great question, this cheesecake batter makes 12 mini cheesecakes. I have not tried making it with a cupcake pan, but it should be the same.
The recipe doesn’t call for salt but the name of the recipe says “Salted Caramel” and the photos show salt on top. Am I missing something?
Hi Kay,
The salt is sprinkled on top of the cheese cake. The salt I used was sea salt. Thanks for catching that! 🙂
Hi!
Could I just make this without the egg and not bake the batter and let them sit for an hour in the fridge?
Hi Evie,
Great question, unfortunately I have not tried it without the egg. If you do try it, let me know how it turns out for you! 😉
these look so amazing. I am wanting it now.