Cheesecake Cupcakes

please check out my Instructable on how to bake delicious creamcheese cupcakes with recipe and directions!

 - line cupcake pans with silicone cupcake liners that stand up by themselves so you can cover a cookie sheet with them.

- Once they're ready, place a whole, unbroken "Oreo" in the bottom of each one. Smash a few extras to put in the batter too!

- take cream cheese that's room temperature &beat  with an electric mixer until smooth

- slowly beat in the sugar, and vanilla

-crack the eggs into a separate bowl and lightly beat them together, add slowly into the cream cheese mixture, beating them in fully

-scrape the sides of the bowl as needed

-beat in the sour cream and salt

-smash the rest of the Oreos and stir them into the batter by hand

RECIPE

42 Oreos, or similar cream-filled sandwich cookies; 30 whole and 12 coarsely chopped
2 lbs cream cheese; room temperature
1 C sugar
1 tsp vanilla
4 large eggs; room temp/ lightly beaten
1 C sour cream
Pinch of salt

* Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with silicone liners. Place one cookie in the bottom of each cup.

 * With an electric mixer beat cream cheese until smooth, scraping down sides of bowl & gradually beat in sugar and vanilla.

* Add eggs, sour cream and salt & chopped cookies 

*Divide batter evenly among cookie-lined cups; filling each almost to the top.

*Bake, rotating pan halfway through,  about 22 minutes.

* Refrigerate at least 4 hours (up to overnight) before serving.

-garnish cupcakes they way you like or eat them as they are

have fun!