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Ready In: 3-8 hours
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Serves: 24
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Cal-Organic Farms carrots, shredded
- 2 tbsp. Cal-Organic Farms carrots, finely grated
- 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 3 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
- 1 1/2 tbsp. sugar
- 1 (8-oz.) package cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 tsp. ginger
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, sugar, and shredded carrots and mix together with a fork. Spoon about a teaspoon of the mixture into 24 greased mini cupcake molds. Evenly distribute the mixture to fill all 24 and press with your fingers to create a crust.
- In a large bowl, combine the cream cheese, sugar, egg, ginger, and vanilla extract. Mix with an electric hand mixer until well combined and creamy. Fold in the shredded carrots. Spoon the mixture evenly over the crusts in the mini cupcake molds.
- Bake for 15 minutes. Allow to cool slightly and then refrigerate in the molds. After at least 2 hours or up to 8 hours, remove the cheesecakes from the molds with a small offset spatula and serve.