A few
months ago, we posted a recipe for cheesecake bites that Karla had made for a
dessert exchange at work. Over the last couple years, we have experimented with
both the crust and the filling, including a crushed nuts crust, a chocolate
crust, and even a sweet potato + cream cheese filling for a delicious
thanksgiving dessert. The chocolate crust cheesecake bites were made for a
couple occasions recently, and there were several recipe requests, so here’s a
variation on Karla’s original cheesecake bites recipe.
The
filling is the same, but the graham crackers were replaced by chocolate graham
crackers. We added an extra chocolate graham cracker sheet. The consistency of
the crust mixture should be such that you can form a ball, so if it’s too oily,
add some more crackers! (9 cracker sheets did the trick for us). Instead
of a fruit topping, we used chopped nuts. Macademia nuts or hazelnuts taste
good, but you could use other nuts too, or leave the nuts out altogether. We
drizzled dark chocolate to pretty up the cheesecake bites.
