Ingredients
16 oz cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp vanilla
24 vanilla wafers
21 oz cherry pie filling
Directions
Beat cream cheese; sugar, eggs, lemon juice and vanilla until light
and fluffy. Line muffin tins with paper baking cups, and place a
vanilla wafer in the bottom of each. Fill each 2/3 full with the
cream cheese mixture. Bake at 375 degrees 15 to 20 minutes, or until
set. Top each with about 1 tablespoonful of the pie filling.
I use different pie fillings, and sometimes more than one when
making a recipe, they look very nice on frilly paper doilies, with
the different colors of toppings. If you make marzipan, some green
marzipan leaves look pretty on top, and at times I have made some
little chocolate doodle figures to use with these. Barb Day
Servings: 24 servings
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