Individual Papaya Cheesecakes
"I like this recipe because you do individual servings, it's easy, you do it in the microwave, you can substitute other fruits, and it tastes great. I use 1 cup sized ramekins. You can easily cut this in half or expand it by 50 or 100 %."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (226.5 g)
- Calories 660.4
- Total Fat - 41.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 15.3 g
- Cholesterol - 147.1 mg
- Sodium - 577.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 65.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.4 g
- Sugars - 50.8 g
- Protein - 8.1 g
- Calcium - 78.4 mg
- Iron - 1.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.9 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Melt butter and stir in vanilla wafer crumbs
Step 2
Spoon into ramekins and lightly tamp down to form a crust. If you pack it down hard it will cook up like concrete.
Step 3
Remove seeds from papaya. Scoop the flesh into a blender and blend until smooth.
Step 4
In large bowl microwave cream cheese for 1 to 2 minutes just to soften it
Step 5
With mixer at low speed, beat cream cheese, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and 1/2 cup papaya puree until smooth and well blended
Step 6
Microwave on high 4 to 6 minutes, until very hot, beating 3 times during cooking.
Step 7
Remove from microwave and beat one last time until smooth. [ lick beaters and put in sink ]
Step 8
Spoon mixture into ramekins. Arrange in an evenly spaced circle in microwave and cook 3 to 4 minutes, until almost set, rearranging them twice.
Step 9
Remove from microwave and let them stand for 15 minutes.
Step 10
Put remaining papaya puree in a small bowl and stir in icing sugar to taste and then cover it.
Step 11
Refrigerate cheesecakes and puree until well chilled - several hours.
Step 12
To serve, take cheesecakes out of fridge about an hour ahead, and just before serving top with the remaining papaya puree.
Tips
No special items needed.