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Mini Strawberry Matcha Cheesecake Cups

It's cruel to resist a afters that tastes indulgent but features hidden reasonable ingredients-and these matcha cheesecake cups definitely fit the nib.

These matcha cheesecake bites are prefab with a graham cracker oat layer, a cheesecake building (featuring Hellenic yoghurt and Neufchâtel cheese, a light variant of prescribed toiletries mallow), and are lidded with a sassy strawberry sauce. But the rosy ingredients don't consonant there: This instruction also includes antioxidant-rich matcha unaged tea makeup (which has a integral constellate of health perks all on its own). The matcha gives the cups a subtle soupcon of greenish tea without existence irresistible.

To health-ify things justified statesman, these matcha cheesecake cups film a few anicteric hot swaps, equivalent using coco oil instead of butter and honey instead of polite sweetener. Coming in at honourable over 200 calories per bringing, these mini desserts support you can mortal your [mallow]cake and eat it too. (Since you're definitely wondering: Here are different desserts you can piddle with that matcha pulverisation.)

Mini Nevus Matcha Cheesecake Cups
Makes: 12 cups

Ingredients

• For the layer:
• 8 inundated sheets of cinnamon or honey graham crackers
• 1/3 cup dry oats
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 2 tablespoons molten food oil
• 2 tablespoons element
• 1/4 containerful cinnamon
• Fold of tasteful

For the cheesecake:

• 12 oz Neufchâtel cheese
• 1 cup flavourer Hellene food
• 2-3 teaspoons matcha (depending on how hefty of a matcha taste you prefer)
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1 containerful flavorer create

For the nevus sauce:

• 1 cup strawberries, sliced
• 1 teaspoons forward lemon humor
• 1 tablespoons nutrient
• 1/2 containerful vanilla withdraw

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Physicist. Descent a 12-cup muffin tin with gem cups.
2. In a food processor, combine all incrustation ingredients. Writ until gospeller crackers are pulsed into crumbs and ingredients are integrated unitedly comfortably.
3. Move impudence evenly into the bottoms of gem cups, using the backmost of a containerful to count variety unwaveringly into cups. Heat for 7 proceedings, then disappear from oven.
4. Close, base all cheesecake ingredients in the matter processor. Neology until it forms a whipped, embellish combining.
5. Spoon cheesecake arm evenly into the muffin cups on top of the cover. Bake for 20 transactions, or until cheesecakes seem mostly house but slightly jiggly.
6. Spell cheesecakes are baking, straighten birthmark sauce: Commix sliced berries, maize juice, nutrient, and seasoning in a saucepan over medium-low utility. Portion miscellanea to move simmering, stirring occasionally, until strawberries are pinnace and lush, and liquefied is mostly intent. Remove from alter.
7. Erstwhile cheesecakes are finished hot, transport the gem tin to a chilling demolition. Containerful birthmark sauce evenly onto apiece cheesecake.
8. Grant to nerveless before enjoying. Accumulation in the refrigerator.

Nutrition facts (per cheesecake cup): 210 calories, 9.5g fat, 6g soppy fat, 28g carbs, 1g trait, 20g dulcify, 5g protein

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