Mini Mocha-Toffee Compaction Cheesecakes {Party Serial 5}

Coffee. Toffee. Crunch. Yum.

My Mom's together with my favorite means to produce dessert for a political party is a collection of "little bites." You know, tasty bars cutting into minor squares, hand-dipped truffles, mini tarts ... things similar that. These mini Mocha-Toffee Crunch Cheesecakes for sure lucifer the bill! Serve the collection on a tiered stand upward or two, together with y'all convey a fabulous-looking together with delicious display. Another addition ... finger-food dessert! No require for guests to worry close cutting pieces or juggling forks piece trying to concur their imbibe drinking glass together with plate at the same time.

Now, earlier nosotros larn into looking at how to brand these tasty treats, here's a funny petty storey close this recipe. Last summertime I published a identify unit of measurement cookbook together with gave it to all the women inwards our identify unit of measurement equally a Christmas gift. When preparing my ain recipes for the book, I couldn't respect this recipe anywhere. I was going crazy searching for it. Thankfully, I had shared it amongst my Mom thus lastly but got it from her. Here's what I at i time intend happened to this recipe ... One twenty-four sixty minutes menstruum I had several of my recipe folders (I'm a fleck obsessed amongst collecting recipes!) inwards the backseat of Mark's car. While driving downwardly the interstate, he opened his sunroof. Well ... he says recipes started flight everywhere, amongst several flight correct out the sunroof! I'm guessing this is i that took the flight leap.

Now on to the cheesecakes...
Combine but about Kahlua (ohhhh, I beloved a recipe that starts out that way!), instant java granules, together with a tiny fleck of water.

I love Kahlua

Mix that upward amongst your common cheesecake suspects ... cream cheese, sugar, together with an egg together with such.

Mocha cheesecake batter

Spoon the cheesecake batter into mini phyllo shells, sprinkle toffee bits on top, together with popular them inwards the oven for a few minutes. That's it! You at i time convey a tasty "little bite" for slow entertaining.

Filling the shells. They're thus cute.

Oh, together with here's a handy-dandy storage tip. Save the boxes together with petty trays from your miniature phyllo shell packages. After the cheesecakes cool, identify them dorsum inwards the trays together with slide the trays dorsum into the boxes. You tin together with then stack the boxes inwards the fridge for rubber together with space-saving storage until political party time. Enjoy!

Easy storage

Mini Mocha-Toffee Crunch Cheesecakes
Source: Adapted from Cooking Light magazine
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
three packages miniature phyllo shells
1 tsp. Kahlua
1 tsp. hot water
1 1/2 tsp. instant java granules
1 (8 oz.) bundle cream cheese
1/2 c. sugar
1 egg
1/4 tsp. vanilla
1 T. flour
three T. crushed toffee bits

Directions
1. Place phyllo shells into mini muffin pan cups.

2. Combine java granules, water, together with Kahlua inwards a minor bowl; stir to dissolve java granules. Place java mixture together with all remaining ingredients (EXCEPT toffee bits) inwards the bowl of an electrical mixer or nutrient processor. Process until smooth.

3. Fill each phyllo shell amongst cream cheese mixture; sprinkle tops amongst toffee bits.

4. Bake at 350 for fifteen minutes or until set. Remove from pan together with cool.

Enjoy!

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