{"id":52162,"date":"2018-12-10T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/?p=52162"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:51:27","slug":"hot-cocoa-cheesecake-minis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/hot-cocoa-cheesecake-minis\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Cocoa Cheesecake Minis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These mini hot cocoa cheesecakes are not only adorable but are delicious and so easy to make!<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52163 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Untitled-design4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Untitled-design4.png 800w, https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Untitled-design4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Untitled-design4-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Untitled-design4-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Untitled-design4-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>What You&#8217;ll Need<\/strong><br \/>\n10 sandwich cookies, finely crushed<br \/>\n1 Tbsp. butter, melted<br \/>\n2 pkg. (8 oz. each) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened<br \/>\n1\/2 cup plus 1 tsp. sugar, divided<br \/>\n1\/4 cup plus 1\/2 tsp. unsweetened cocoa powder, divided<br \/>\n2 eggs<br \/>\n2 oz. BAKER&#8217;S Semi-Sweet Chocolate<br \/>\n3\/4 cup whipping cream<br \/>\n1\/2 cup JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows<\/p>\n<p><strong>What to Do<\/strong><br \/>\nHeat oven to 325\u00b0F.<br \/>\nCombine cookie crumbs and butter; press onto bottoms of 12 paper-lined muffin cups. Bake 8 min.<br \/>\nBeat cream cheese, 1\/2 cup sugar and 1\/4 cup cocoa powder in medium bowl with mixer until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended. Spoon over crusts.<br \/>\nBake 22 to 25 min. or until centers are almost set. Cool completely. Refrigerate 2 hours.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, cover baking sheet with parchment. Melt semi-sweet chocolate as directed on package; spoon into resealable plastic bag. Cut small piece off one bottom corner of bag; use to squeeze chocolate into 12 shapes on prepared baking sheet to resemble cup handles as shown in photo. Freeze until ready to use.<br \/>\nRemove liners from cheesecakes. Beat cream and remaining sugar in separate medium bowl with mixer on high speed until soft peaks form; spoon onto cheesecakes. Sprinkle with remaining cocoa powder; top with marshmallows. Gently press chocolate handle into side of each cheesecake.<\/p>\n<p>*Done in partnership with Philadelphia Cream Cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These mini hot cocoa cheesecakes are not only adorable but are delicious and so easy to make!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743,2733,1621,1601,111,2754,3241,2732],"tags":[3094,1391,3092,3093,3095],"class_list":["post-52162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-partners","category-dessert-recipes-2","category-easy-diy","category-easy-entertaining","category-eat-with-the-season","category-food-crafts","category-holidays","category-recipes","tag-cheesecake","tag-chocolate","tag-hot-chocolate","tag-hot-cocoa","tag-philadelphia-cream-cheese"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52175,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52162\/revisions\/52175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}