Conversation Heart Cheesecakes
Brightly colored heart shaped cheesecakes decorated to look like conversation hearts.
⏱️ Prep: 30 min🍳 Cook: 25 min
Ingredients
| 1 cup | 240 ml | graham cracker crumbs (15 squares) |
| — | pinch of cinnamon | |
| 4 tablespoons | 60 ml | butter, melted (1/2 stick) |
| 16 ounces | 455 g | cream cheese, softened (2 blocks) |
| 1 cup | 240 ml | sugar |
| 3 | large eggs | |
| 1 pint | 475 ml | sour cream (1 pint = 16 ounces or 2 cups) |
| 1 teaspoon | 5 ml | vanilla extract |
| — | food coloring - pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, and red |
Instructions
- Fill a roasting pan with enough water to come half way up the sides of the silicone heart molds.
- Set pan in oven.
- Heat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Mix together the graham cracker crumbs, cinnamon, and melted butter.
- Equally divide the crumbs among 18 heart shaped silicone mold cavities.
- Press the crumbs into an even layer and refrigerate until needed.
- Beat cream cheese until creamy and smooth.
- Add sugar and beat until incorporated.
- Beat in eggs then add sour cream and vanilla and mix just to combine.
- Equally divide batter into 6 bowls.
- Color one bowl of filling pink, another lavender, yellow, orange, green, and blue using food coloring.
- Equally divide each color of filling among 3 heart cavities.
- Bake cheesecakes in a water bath for 18-24 minutes until the edges look set but the center is jiggly but not wet.
- Remove from oven and water bath and allow to cool at room temperature for an hour.
- Freeze for at least two hours then remove and un-mold.
- Paint conversation heart phrases onto the tops of the cheesecakes using red food coloring.