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    Home » Recipes » Dessert » Pie

    Mini Cheesecakes with Lemon Curd

    Published by Melissa on January 19, 2010 | Updated June 15, 2022 | 66 Comments

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    Mini Cheesecakes with Lemon Curd

    Instead of cake for his birthday, my husband asked me to make him a cheesecake with a tart lemon topping similar to the Lemon Cream Cheese pie they serve at Marie Callender’s. My wonderful son gave me a mini cheesecake pan for Christmas, so this was the perfect opportunity to give it it’s maiden voyage.

    Jenny at Picky Palate is always creating fabulous desserts with her mini cheesecake pan. So I adapted her Shortbread Cookie Crusted Peanut Butter Mini Cheesecakes with Chocolate Ganache to create luscious lemon mini birthday cheesecakes. These little beauties were a wonderful combination of sweet and tart, creamy and crunchy. I bet you can’t eat just one!

     

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    Mini Cheesecake with Lemon Curd

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    Ingredients

    • 1 cup graham cracker crumbs (1 package)
    • 2 Tablespoons melted butter
    • 2 8 oz packages cream cheese softened
    • ½ Cup sugar
    • 2 eggs
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • 2 Tablespoons sour cream
    • Pinch of salt
    • LEMON CURD
    • 3 large egg yolks
    • Zest of ½ lemon
    • ¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (2 lemons)
    • 6 tablespoons sugar
    • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter cold and cut into pieces

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 300º. In a medium bowl, combined graham cracker crumbs and melted butter. Spoon a heaping Tablespoon of crust into each mini cheesecake pan or mini muffin tin. With fingers or round end of a wooden spoon, press crust down evenly.
    • In a stand or electric mixer, beat cream cheese and sugar until well combined. Add in eggs one at a time following with the vanilla, sour cream, pinch of salt. Mix until just combined.
    • Fill each crust filled cup ¾ way full of cheesecake batter. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until cheesecake is set. Remove from oven and let sit in pan at room temperature for 30 minutes before removing. Transfer mini cheesecakes to a cooling rack to cool completely, another 30 minutes or so.
    • Refrigerate until serving. To serve spoon lemon curd over each cheesecake.
    • LEMON CURD
    • Combine yolks, lemon zest, lemon juice, and sugar in a small saucepan. Whisk to combine. Set over medium heat, and stir constantly with a wooden spoon, making sure to stir sides and bottom of pan. Cook until mixture is thick enough to coat back of wooden spoon, 5 to 7 minutes.
    • Remove saucepan from heat. Add the butter, one piece at a time, stirring with the wooden spoon until consistency is smooth.
    • Transfer mixture to a medium bowl. Lay a sheet of plastic wrap directly on the surface of the curd to avoid a skin from forming; wrap tightly. Let cool; refrigerate until firm and chilled, at least 1 hour. Store, refrigerated in an airtight container, up to 2 days.
    • If you want to bake a bigger version of this cheesecake in a springform pan, I loved Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake I made last year for the Daring Bakers challenge and then top it with the lemon curd recipe.
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    1. Frances Pyle

      September 07, 2018 at 6:10 pm

      Please let me know if a mini oreo cookie on top of a mini oreo cheesecake with lemon curd will get soggy? How long do I wait after putting on lemon curd to the put on the mini oreo cookie?

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      • Barbara Schieving

        September 07, 2018 at 6:45 pm

        Hi Frances – I would top it with curd and add the mini oreo cookie right before serving.

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    2. The Double Dipped Life

      January 27, 2010 at 3:46 pm

      What a great combination! I will have to try this; thanks!

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    3. bruce

      January 25, 2010 at 7:41 am

      Really delicious I must say. I just love lemon juice mixed with cheese, this combination gives me great feeling . I will try this recipe this sunday we all love lemon curd very much.

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    4. tspegar

      January 24, 2010 at 5:13 pm

      I am an absolute cheesecake junkie! I love lemon curd too and I have now had the pleasure of tasting yours!!! These are lovely and I am sure they were delicious!

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    5. Judy

      January 24, 2010 at 2:11 pm

      Lemon curd and cheesecake are a great combo. I'd love to get the mini-cheesecake pans, but if I keep buying baking pans, I'll have to move out.

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