Mint Cheesecake Bites

Name: Mint Cheesecake Bites
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters butter or margarine, melted; 907 grams packages cream cheese, softened; 4 larges eggs; 6 drops green liquid food coloring; 710 milliliters cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookie crumbs (40 cookies); 2 teaspoons peppermint extract; 118 milliliters semisweet chocolate morsels; 1 teaspoon shortening; 237 milliliters sugar

Mint Cheesecake Bites requires roughly 45 minutes from start to finish. This recipe makes 24 servings with 583 calories, 10g of protein, and 33g of fat each. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have shortening, cream cheese, cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookie crumbs, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Stir together cookie crumbs and butter; press mixture into bottom of an aluminum foil-lined 13- x 9-inch pan.

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Cookie Crumbs

Butter

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Aluminum Foil

Frying Pan

Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

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Wire Rack

Oven

Beat cream cheese and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.

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Cream Cheese

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.

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Egg

Stir in peppermint extract and food coloring.

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Peppermint Extract

Food Color

Spread cream cheese mixture over prepared crust.

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Cream Cheese

Crust

Bake at 300 for 35 minutes or until set. Cool on a wire rack. Cover and chill 8 hours.

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Wire Rack

Oven

Place chocolate morsels and shortening in a small heavy-duty zip-top plastic bag; seal. Submerge bag in hot water until chocolate melts; gently knead until mixture is smooth. Snip a tiny hole in 1 corner of plastic bag; drizzle chocolate over cheesecake in a crisscross pattern, if desired.

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Chocolate Chips