These orange cheesecake tarts are made with flaky tartlet shells in a muffin pan with a creamy no-bake cheesecake filling flavored with loads of vibrant orange zest. These mini tarts make an irresistible snack or dessert!
Should you love tarts and pies, different favorites embrace this Italian lemon tart, puff pastry strawberry tarts and these cheesecake mini tarts.
Whereas often apples are my fruit of alternative in a dessert like in my caramel apple cheesecake tart, currently I’ve been craving the intense, zesty contemporary style of orange and these orange cheesecake tarts are candy perfection in each mini-sized chew!
Drawing inspiration from my favourite no-bake lemon cheesecake, I substituted lemon zest for orange zest however as an alternative of creating a complete pie, I borrowed the thought from my chocolate mousse tarts and made them in a muffin tin for a variation of mini cheesecake fruit tarts!
Why You’ll Love These Mini Orange Cheesecake Tarts
- Contemporary, creamy and flavorful: This candy dessert is filled with vibrant citrus style, a creamy cheesecake filling and buttery flaky pastry crust.
- Straightforward to make from scratch: From the crust to the no-bake mini cheesecake filling, this recipe is straightforward to make with just a little understand how and endurance whereas the filling units!
Mini Orange Cheesecake Recipe Components
- Pie dough: For the mini tart crust, I used this easy homemade pie dough. It was my mother’s recipe and is a favourite!
- Cream: Heavy whipping cream, entire cream or whipping cream can be utilized.
- Cream cheese: Use full fats cream cheese that is available in a block. Bear in mind to melt to room temperature!
- Mascarpone cheese: I really like the creaminess that mascarpone cheese provides however it may be substituted for cream cheese if you want.
- Oranges: You will have the zest from 1 ½ oranges. Enhance or lower zest relying in your desire. (I really like numerous orange taste!)
- Sugar: Granulated sugar balances the tangy cream cheese.
- Complete milk: Only a small quantity provides the proper wealthy style together with the opposite components.
How you can Make Orange Cheesecake Tarts
Make tart shells
To start out, put together the flaky pie crust dough and chill. As soon as chilled, take away dough from the fridge and roll out half onto a floured flat floor. With a spherical cookie cutter reduce out the circles of dough.
Place a circle in every customary muffin tin cup then trim any extra dough with a pointy knife. Prick the bottoms of every shell with a fork. Place a sq. of parchment paper or a cupcake casing in every shell, and fill each with some dried beans, rice or sugar.
Bake for the acknowledged time then take away the paper and dried beans and bake once more till golden. Take away the tartlet shells from the oven and funky utterly earlier than filling.
Orange cheesecake filling
In a medium bowl utilizing an electrical mixer, beat heavy whipping cream till very stiff. In one other massive bowl beat collectively the softened cream cheese, mascarpone, orange zest, sugar and milk.
Gently fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese combination and mix the orange filling till easy.
Add cheesecake filling to every tart shell, cowl and refrigerate for roughly 4 hours or in a single day. Prime with a contemporary orange slice earlier than serving.
ideas and variations
- Crust: As an alternative of a pie dough crust, strive a buttery graham cracker crust, sugar cookie crumb base, golden Oreo crust or perhaps a crust made with gingersnap cookies!
- Chocolate orange mini cheesecake: To make this variation, swap to my chocolate pie crust and garnish with some shaved chocolate on prime. Yum!
- Citrus: Substitute the orange zest for lemon zest and even lime zest.
- Mascarpone: I really like the creaminess mascarpone cheese provides, however you need to use all cream cheese if you want.
- Don’t use cream cheese unfold: Your mini cheesecakes is not going to find yourself the identical! You want a block of full fats cream cheese for this recipe to prove with the specified creamy cheesecake outcomes.
- Garnish: Garnish with candied orange slices, like I do in my chocolate orange cake, or prime with contemporary raspberries or different contemporary fruit, even a chocolate glaze can be wonderful!
Can I fill these mini tarts with a special filling?
Sure! Usually mini fruit tarts are crammed with Italian pastry cream or lemon pastry cream which might each be scrumptious.
Can I make these in a mini muffin pan?
Sure! This may be an effective way to get pleasure from much more mini orange cheesecakes! No want to vary something within the recipe except you need to preserve it actually easy and use a Nilla wafer cookie for the crust.
Why is my no-bake cheesecake filling not setting?
Probably it’s since you didn’t give it sufficient time to harden whereas chilling within the fridge. I advisable chilling the cheesecake for at the very least 4 hours, 6 hours is nice and in a single day even higher.
Extra Orange Dessert Recipes
So in the event you love oranges or something orange flavoured you will love these simple Orange Cheesecake Tarts. And in the event you don’t need to make tarts, a pie would work simply as nicely! Take pleasure in!
- 1 Pie Dough Recipe (in the event you desire you might use retailer purchased pie dough)
ORANGE CHEESECAKE FILLING
- 6 tablespoons cream (entire, whipping or heavy cream at the very least 30% fats content material)
- 7 ounces cream cheese (full fats)
- ½ cup mascarpone cheese (you need to use additional cream cheese in the event you desire)
- 1½ tablespoons orange zest
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1½ tablespoons milk (entire or 2%)
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Prepare Easy Homemade Pie Dough. Chill the dough for 45-60 minutes.
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Pre-heat oven to 350F / 180C.
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Take away dough from the fridge and roll out half onto a floured flat floor to roughly ⅙ to ¼-inch thickness. (different half of the dough could be frozen in case you are not utilizing it).
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With a spherical cookie cutter (medium to massive relying on the dimensions of the muffin tin you employ, I used a daily dimension muffin tin) reduce out 9 circles. Place a circle in a every muffin cup (flatten into place with the underside of a small glass calmly floured). Trim any extra dough with a pointy knife.
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Prick the bottoms of every shell with a fork. Place a sq. of parchment paper or a cupcake casing in every shell, and fill each with some dried beans, rice or sugar.
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Bake for roughly 10 minutes, then take away the paper and dried beans (watch out it’s scorching) after which bake once more for roughly 5 minutes or till golden. Take away the tarts from the oven and let cool utterly earlier than filling.
ORANGE CHEESECAKE FILLING
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Whereas the shells are cooling make the filling.
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In a medium bowl beat the cream till very stiff.
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In a big bowl beat collectively till easy and creamy the cream cheese, mascarpone, zest, sugar and the milk.
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Gently fold the whipped cream into the mascarpone combination and mix till easy.
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Fill the cooled tart shells and refrigerate for roughly 4 hours or over evening. Prime with a contemporary orange slice earlier than serving. Take pleasure in!
How you can retailer leftover no-bake mini orange cheesecake tarts?
You’ll be able to retailer leftovers in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3 days. I don’t advocate freezing these orange mini fruit tarts.
Energy: 353kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 2g | Fats: 19g | Saturated Fats: 11g | Ldl cholesterol: 57mg | Sodium: 92mg | Potassium: 42mg | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 695IU | Calcium: 54mg | Iron: 0.1mg
