No Bake Chocolate Cheesecake Cups

We have at least one person at our table who believes a meal isn’t complete unless there’s something sweet at the end of it. I’m not a huge dessert person (at home) because it means more dishes and I’m not usually on top of it enough to have made something ahead of time. So we go through a decent amount of ice cream but even that can get boring. Having a couple of options for a quick dessert that can be made at the literal last minute has been helpful.

These no bake chocolate cheesecake cups can either be made ahead of time or can be made during the ten minutes you’ve convinced everyone else to clear the table and get the dishes started. Like the recipe for the Toffee Bark with Salted Pecans, if you’re a purist about cheesecake you can keep walking because this is an approximation of the baked version. Also, if you have a problem with the domestic use of squirty cream, our humble Kith and Kitchen may not be the right little corner of the internet for you, in general.

If you make it once or twice you’ll start to see that it’s a formula and you can substitute into at will. They don’t always have to be just chocolate cheesecake cups. This one came about because I had extra ginger biscuits and some leftover Easter candy around. You can also crush up custard creams for the bottom and mix strawberries into the cream cheese. Or try amaretti biscuits as the base with some lemon curd in the cream cheese. What about Oreo cookies in the bottom, peanut butter in the cream cheese? Digestives with caramel and bananas like Banoffee Pie! You get the idea. If you’re super fancy you can even whip your own cream and skip the squirty cream. Although I can’t for the life of me imagine why anyone would skip the squirty cream when given a legitimate use for it.