I made A LOT of dessert last weekend. I started out wanting to make mini pumpkin cheesecakes, so I took some Biscoff (the same cookies you get on Delta flights) and graham crackers and butter and made some crusts in the bottom of 12 cupcake liners. When I made my cheesecake filling, I was too lazy to open a new package of cream cheese, so I just used the half-package and adjusted.
Here’s where things went a little wonky.
Turns out that only makes enough filling for 8 cheese-cup-cakes (though I should have made 6, really, they should have been filled all the way to the top.) which left me with 4 crusts with no filling. At this point, I decided the best course of action was to make an apple pie. I could just put some of the apple filling in the remaining cups, and since I was using a crumb topping and not a pie crust topping, I’d put that on the little pies too! It would work perfectly!
Except, of course, that the filling I had was barely enough for the pie I was making since the only pie pan I have is DEEP. I managed to eke out two minipies, but there were still two crumb crusts left. Well crap. I just chopped up some apples, mixed them with brown sugar, flour, and craisins and said to hell with it.
I am pleased to announce that not only was my pie the best fucking apple pie EVER…
![applecrumbpie](http://www.daintycakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/applecrumbpie.jpg)
All three of my mini desserts turned out pretty good as well. So good, even when I dropped a bunch of them they all held their shape!
![desserttrio](http://www.daintycakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/desserttrio.jpg)
The pumpkin cheesecakes were a real accomplishment for me though. I don’t bake very often, I’m more of a “make dinner” person than I am a “make dessert” person, so I’d never made cheesecake before. And I was convinced I was doing it completely wrong because they took SO LONG to finish baking, almost triple the time for every recipe I checked.
![pumpkincheesecake](http://www.daintycakes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/pumpkincheesecake.jpg)
They are for reals delicious. Better than plain cheesecake. It’s going on my “make every fall” list.