Valentine Mini Cheesecake (with Cherry on Top)

Some of the best recipes are the ones scribbled down from your Mom's memory.  This is a simple dessert perfect for Valentine's Day.  Who can resist a cherry on top?

My wonderful mother (who just had a birthday, Happy Birthday Mom!), passed this recipe on to me years ago.  Like everything she made for us, it was filled with love.

Here's what you'll need:

2 packages of cream cheese (room temp)
1 cup  'o sugar
1 tsp of of vanilla
2 eggs
Vanilla wafer cookies
1 can of cherry or strawberry pie filling
A pinch of love

Heat the oven up to 350F (180C or gas mark 4) and line a muffin tin with paper liners.

Beat the cream cheese with a mixer until it is fluffy.  Then add the sugar and vanilla...mix well.  Add the eggs and mix well.

Place a vanilla wafer in the bottom of each liner.  Fill each liner with your cream cheese mixture (should fill about 12 liners 3/4 of the way full).  Then bake for about 22-23 minutes.

After they have cooled down spoon your topping of choice onto each one.  I like my cheesecake cool so I keep them in the fridge.  Serve up to someone you love, or snarf them all by yourself while watching reruns of Sex and the City (I've been there too).

Happy Valentine's Day.
xo