"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 %."

Original recipe yields 4 servings

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Ingredients

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4 tablespoons of butter
1 large papaya
1 cup vanilla wafer crumbs (available in the cookie isle of the grocery store)
2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese

3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Icing sugar to taste

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 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 & Variations

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Tags : Desserts Fancy/Entertaining