Turtle Cheesecake

Happy Birthday foodlove!  That's right, foodlove is 1 year old! In the past year we have posted over 200 recipes (wow), can you believe it!? We hope that you have found some favorites that have helped you eat healthier at home.  And this recipe below my friends, might just be one of my favorites!  You have seen our mini cherry cheesecakes, and our mini pumpkin cheesecakes.  Now check out our MINI TURTLE CHEESECAKES! What better way to celebrate a birthday than with hot fudge, caramel and Oreos? Enjoy!

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Servings: 18 cheesecakes
Serving Size: 1 cheesecake
Points Plus: 5
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Level of Difficulty: Easy

Ingredient List:
3/4 cups sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
16 oz low fat cream cheese (not fat free), room temperature
1 T. vanilla
18 reduced fat oreos
18 pecans, broken into pieces
18 t. Mrs. Richardson's Hot Fudge
18 t. Mrs. Richardson's Caramel

Directions:
Preheat your oven to 350. Line a cupcake tin (or two) with 18 liners. Place an Oreo in the bottom of each liner. Using an electric mixer, beat together sugar, eggs, vanilla and cream cheese until well blended and not lumpy.  Put 1/4 c. of cream cheese mixture into each cupcake tin. Bake for about 20-25 minutes, until lightly browned on top and fork comes out clean.  Remove from cupcake tins and let them cook completely.

Toast your pecans! Place your broken pecans on a rimed cookie sheet. Using your preheated 350 degree oven toast the pecans for about 5 minutes, watching them closely so they don't burn. When you can start to smell them baking, remove them!

When cakes are cool, heat up your fudge in the microwave until easily spreadable.  Using a teaspoon (for proper portion control) top each cake with 1 teaspoon of fudge.  Repeat this step with the caramel. Divide the broken pecan pieces between each cheesecake and press them into the caramel layer a bit so they stick. 

Tip:
To reduce these babies by 1pp (making them just 4pp each) you can use a chocolate wafer cookie in the bottom as a crust instead of an Oreo. I personally loved the Oreo!

XOXO - Katie