Mini Caramel Apple Strudel Cheeecakes
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 ⅓ cups graham cracker crumbs I like Honeymaid
- 2 ½ T. sugar
- 6 T. salted butter melted
Streusel Topping
- ½ cup flour
- ¼ cup quick cooking oats
- ¼ cup + 2 Tbsp light-brown sugar
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- ⅛ tsp salt
- ¼ cup butter partially melted in microwave
CheesecakeFilling
- 16 ounces cream cheese softened
- ⅔ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 lb apples peeled, cored and finely chopped* (I used Gingergold)
Topping
- Salted caramel sauce homemade or jarred
Instructions
Crust:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line 18 muffin cups with liners.
- In a mixing bowl, combine melted butter, graham cracker crumbs and sugar.
- Divide mixture into liners and press down firmly o form little crusts.
- Bake 5 minutes and cool.
Streusel:
- To the melted butter, stir in flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt. Stir until clumps form and park in the fridge while you make the filling.
Filling:
- Beat cream cheese with sugar until smooth.
- Add eggs until smooth.
- Add sour cream and vanilla.
Assemble
- Pour cheesecake batter evenly over the mini crusts.
- Top with chopped apples evenly.
- Sprinkle on streusel topping.
- Bake about 25 mins.
- Cool and chill in fridge a few hours.
- Top with caramel!
Adapted from Cooking Classy via Paula Deen
Kathy Hoffman says
Is the 1/3 c. of graham cracker crumbs a typo….it just doesn’t seem like enough when using 6 T. of butter and making 18 mini cheesecakes????
Hugs & Cookies xoxo says
1 1/3 🙂
Rejanne says
isit 6 cups butter or tsp
Hugs & Cookies xoxo says
6 Tablespoons
T=Tablespoon
tsp-teaspoon
Stella says
it’s 1 cup and 1/3 cup.
Johanne says
Can’t wait to make these ????
Anne says
Can these be made a day ahead of time? I have a baby shower coming up that I’d like to make these for but would need to make them the day before.
Thanks!
Hugs & Cookies xoxo says
sure!
Patrice Nielson says
Do you have a good recipe for the caramel sauce? I’ve never made one homemade and don’t want to try a bunch of recipes to find one that works.
Hugs & Cookies xoxo says
here u go!! https://hugsandcookiesxoxo.com/2015/09/easy-homemade-caramel.html
Tracy Miller says
Are these mini cheesecake cupcakes or regular size cupcakes?
Hugs & Cookies xoxo says
regular size cupcakes
Spring Fertig says
I would like to email this to myself. I can’t print. How do I do this?
Hugs & Cookies xoxo says
try copy/paste maybe?
Terry Clark says
The recipe is for cupcake size, but the photo looks like mini muffin size. If I make them in the mini muffin pan, do I bake them the same amount of time?
Hugs & Cookies xoxo says
Would be less time so check earlier.
Susan Brennan says
Making tomorrow for a special dinner desert, can’t wait.
Hugs & Cookies xoxo says
Enjoy!!!
Paula Lenz says
Is there anything else we can use rather then Carmel for the top . I’ll make these for our Christmas party and change the color of the cream cheese to green .
Denise says
If you want to save time and add a flavor twist put a gingersnap cookie in the bottom instead of graham cracker crust. I did it . The gingersnap and apple is a great combination.
Dawn Bradley says
Can I use a canned apple?
linda gullion says
the caramel apple strussel sounds awesome I am going to try these thanks
LABELLE says
can this be made/baked in a mini-jar?
Christina bednarski says
Can you make this one big cheesecake instead of the mini’s?
Hugs & Cookies xoxo says
Yes, but the baking time will increase a lot.
SANDY says
How much does the baking time increase if baking in a 9×13 pan?
Ann says
Made these for a party….super easy and so good, everyone loved them!!
Jan Hersey says
I made these for my Halloween/Fall treat trays for friends and family. They were fantastic-everyone loved them. I want to make as a cheesecake as one of the desserts for Thanksgiving. Would you suggest a 8.5 ” pan??
Many Thanks.
Katie says
I’ve made these 3 times now, and every time they are DELICIOUS! I followed the recipe exactly every time. I highly recommend 🙂
Hugs & Cookies xoxo says
That is awesome!!!
Terese Karmel says
What would be the measurements and cooking time to make these in a spring form pan? 9-10 inch
Hugs & Cookies xoxo says
yay!!!!!
Lynn says
I made these in cupcake pan and were amazing. Just wondering how long it would need to bake if made in 9X13 pan.