Spiced Apple Cider Mini Cheesecakes

Spiced Apple Cider Mini Cheesecakes are a delicious miniature dessert packed with fall flavors. Just try and stop with one!

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Creamy cheesecake filling, perfectly spiced with fall flavors and hot apple cider tea, all poured onto a ginger spiced oat graham crust. It’s fall, in a bite size dessert that you will want to eat until spring comes ’round again.

In case you forgot, or somehow didn’t know yet, cheesecake is my very favorite dessert. All kinds of cheescake. Really, anything with cream cheese. But I digress. I knew I wanted to make a fall-flavored cheesecake for this week, because…well, why not?? And let me just tell you…it was a home run. The spices – cinnamon and nutmeg – paired with the hot apple cider tea, and caramel apple topping are pure perfection. And let’s not forget the stem ginger oat graham crust. Mah gawd.

I made part of these in standard muffin tins, and part in mini muffin tins. All are mini desserts, but the mini mini’s are perfect for 4-year-old-sugar-monster hands. I’m just sayin’. Hubby isn’t big on desserts (though he has been quite the ice cream fan lately) but he always loves cheesecake. It’s the one dessert he can’t seem to say no to. I wasn’t sure if he’d like this spiced version, but he gave it a big thumbs up!

One good thing about these – if I have to point out just one – is that the topping is optional, and they are delicious either way!

What do you need to make Spiced Apple Cider Mini Cheesecakes?

Nairn’s Stem Ginger Oat Grahams
Unsalted Butter
Granulated Sugar
Cream Cheese
Vanilla Bean Paste (or extract)
Ground Cinnamon
Ground Nutmeg
Hot Apple Cider Tea
4 eggs
Fuij Apple
Caramel Sauce

How to make Spiced Apple Cider Mini Cheesecakes:

Full Printable Recipe Below!

For the cheesecake:
1.) Heat oven to 325 degrees F. Line muffin tins with cupcake liners and set aside.
2.) Combine graham crumbs, melted butter, and 2 tablespoons of sugar in a medium bowl and mix until crumbs are moistened. Press ~1 tablespoon (1 tsp for mini) into the bottom of each cupcake liner.
3.) In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or a large bowl if using a hand mixer), beat cream cheese, vanilla bean paste, remaining 1 cup sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg until smooth and creamy. Add 3/4 cup of apple cider tea and mix until fully incorporated. Now add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed until blended before adding the next one.
4.) Use a medium cookie scoop to fill the cupcake liners (3 scoops for standard, 1 scoop for mini.)
5.) Bake for 20 minutes (18 minutes for mini.) Cool completely, then refrigerate for 2 hours.

For the topping:
1.) In a small saucepan, combine apple cider tea, sugar, cinnamon and diced apples over medium heat. Bring to a simmer and cook down until apples are tender, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool and thicken slightly. Spoon over cooled cheesecakes and drizzle with caramel sauce, if desired, and serve!

The real question here is not whether or not you should make these. Or if you will love them. It’s whether or not you can keep from eating the entire batch yourself! Mini desserts can be dangerous, I won’t deny that. And you will probably want to keep these tasty morsels all to yourself. But you won’t. Because you will want to share the goodness with those you love. Or will you?!?

Sponsor products used in this recipe:

Nairn’s – Stem Ginger Oat Grahams
Taylor and Colledge – Vanilla Bean Paste
Dixie Crystals – Granulated Sugar
Republic of Tea – Hot Apple Cider Tea
Melissa’s Produce – Fuji Apples
Torani – Caramel Saue

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