Petite Cherry Cheesecakes

This is a Grandma Anita classic. The original recipe card in Grandma’s handwriting is above.

-2 8oz packages of cream cheese softened

-3/4 cup sugar

-2 eggs

-1 tsp vanilla

-1TB lemon juice

-24 vanilla wafers

-24 maraschino cherries

-24 cupcake liners

-8 oz cool whip topping

Pre-heat the oven to 350
Cream together the cream cheese and sugar
Beat in the eggs, vanilla, and lemon juice
Line 24 muffin tins (or 12 at a time) with liners. Place a whole Nilla Wafer into the bottom of the liner
Fill each tin half full with cream cheese mixture
Bake 15-20 minutes. Let cool completely
While cooling, set cool whip out to thaw
Once cool, top each cheese cake with cool whip and a maraschino cherry