Churro Cheesecake Bites
These Churro Cheesecake Bites combine a creamy cheesecake center with a crispy, cinnamon-sugar coating. They are simple to make using ready-made dough and disappear quickly when served.
Equipment
- baking tray
- Oven
Ingredients
For the Base
- 2 cans Ready-made crescent dough or puff pastry
- 225 g Cream cheese, softened
- 100 g Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
Cinnamon Coating
- 50 g Sugar
- 1 tbsp Cinnamon
- 3 tbsp Melted butter
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180°C (350°F).
- Mix the softened cream cheese, 100g sugar, and vanilla extract until the mixture is smooth.
- Press one sheet of the crescent dough into your baking tray.
- Spread the cheesecake mixture evenly over the dough layer.
- Place the second sheet of dough on top of the filling.
- Brush the top dough layer with melted butter. Mix the 50g sugar and 1 tbsp cinnamon together, then sprinkle this cinnamon sugar mixture over the buttered top.
- Bake for 22 to 25 minutes, or until the top is golden brown.
- Allow the dessert to cool completely before cutting it into bite-size squares.
Notes
During testing, these disappeared faster than anything else on the table—always the clearest sign a dessert truly works.
By Emily Mitchell, Testing Coordinator at Recipes by Betty.