Orange Cranberry Cheesecake Cups

These simple Orange Cranberry Cheesecake Cups are the proper lightened up dessert for fall and winter! The cheesecake is creamy, and decadent with scrumptious orange-vanilla taste, and the topping is tart, candy, and jammy. I really like orange and cranberry flavors collectively, and this dessert lets them each shine! Making mini desserts in muffin tins is nice as a result of it’s the proper quantity to really feel glad with a candy deal with. These Orange Cranberry Cheesecake Cups are easy and scrumptious, and every one is simply 110 energy or 5 WW Factors every on the present Weight Watchers plan. To view your present WW Factors for this recipe and observe it within the WW app or web site, click on right here!

Not solely are these Orange Cranberry Cheesecake Cups tasty, in addition they come along with minimal effort. The “crust” is only a Nilla Wafer, so there’s no must grind up graham crackers. After putting the cookies into baking cup liners in a standard-sized muffin tin, you’ll simply combine collectively cream cheese, Greek yogurt, and some different easy components and spoon it into the liners. Then bake! When the cheesecakes are cooling, you place some cranberries in a saucepan for a couple of minutes, add a cornstarch slurry and a little bit of sugar and orange juice and let it thicken. Spoon the cranberry topping onto the cheesecakes and chill till they’re chilly. That’s it! The toughest half is ready for them to sit back.

Baking Cups/Cupcake Liners

In case you’re questioning how I made muffin tin cheesecakes with out the ridges across the exterior from the liners, I used Merely Baked Baking Cups I discovered at Wegmans. They’re mainly simply thick paper baking cups, and in the event you search baking cups on Amazon you’ll discover comparable ones from a bunch of various manufacturers. You’ll be able to both tear the paper cup off after cooling like I did for my images, or you may serve them proper within the little cups (they’ve all sorts of patterns and colours) and let individuals spoon the cheesecake out. I often use common paper liners and my muffin tins when making these cheesecakes, however I’ll say that these baking cups do make for smoother, cuter images. Simply wished to be clear in regards to the lack of ridges on my cheesecakes!

Ingredient Notes

Cranberries: This recipe makes use of recent cranberries! It’s also possible to use frozen ones you’ve defrosted a bit. I often purchase just a few luggage of cranberries in the course of the holidays and hold them in my freezer in order that I’ve them obtainable for baking year-round.
Orange: One large-ish orange ought to provide the juice and zest you want for this recipe. Orange and cranberry flavors are so tasty collectively, however in the event you don’t have an orange readily available and wish to make cheesecakes with cranberry topping anyway you may omit the zest and use lemon juice rather than the orange juice.
Nilla Wafers: These cookies work properly on the underside of mini cheesecakes with minimal effort and never lots of added energy. If you wish to amp up the flavour slightly bit, be happy to strive utilizing a ginger snap for the “crust” as a substitute!
Yogurt: I just about at all times add Greek yogurt to my cheesecake as a result of it lightens it up a bit and provides taste and creaminess. My favourite to make use of is Dannon Mild & Match Greek yogurt, which is available in a four-pack and is offered at most grocery shops!

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Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook dinner Time: 25 minutes

Chill Time: 1 hr

Whole Time: 1 hr 30 minutes

Energy: 110kcal

These simple Orange Cranberry Cheesecake Cups are the proper lightened up dessert for fall and winter!

Yield: 12 cheesecake cups

12 Nilla Wafer cookies
8 oz 1/3 much less fats cream cheese, softened to room temperature
5.3 oz container of fats free vanilla Greek yogurt, (I exploit Dannon Mild & Match)
6 tablespoons sugar, divided
2 tablespoons orange juice, divided
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 massive egg
1 tablespoon orange zest
1 ½ cups recent cranberries
2 tablespoons heat water
1 ½ teaspoons cornstarch

Preheat the oven to 375. Place cupcake liners into 12 cups of a regular sized muffin/cupcake tin and place a Nilla Wafer within the backside of every liner.
In a big bowl, mix the cream cheese, yogurt, 5 tablespoons of the sugar, a tablespoon of the orange juice, vanilla, and egg and blend collectively utilizing an electrical mixer till clean and nicely mixed. Stir within the orange zest till unfold all through. Spoon the combination evenly on prime of the nilla wafers within the ready liners and unfold flat with a spatula or the again or a spoon. Bake for 15-16 minutes and take away from oven to chill.
Whereas the cheesecake cups are cooking, mist a small saucepan with cooking spray and produce over medium warmth. Add the cranberries and cook dinner for five minutes, stirring often. In a small dish, stir collectively the cornstarch and heat water till clean and add to the cranberries. Add the remaining tablespoon of orange juice and tablespoon of sugar and stir to mix. Enable the strawberry combination to bubble and thicken. Scale back the warmth to low and simmer for 1-2 minutes. Take away from warmth and canopy till wanted.
As soon as the cheesecake cups have cooled to room temperature, spoon the cranberry topping evenly over the middle of every cup and switch the topped cheesecake cups to the fridge. Chill for no less than one hour. Serve chilled.