Cute Easter Egg Cheesecakes Bites
It will be hard to resist these adorable mini cheesecakes! After all, mini food always tastes that much better and is much more tempting. A buttery shortbread crust forms the base of the Easter-themed mini cheesecakes. It’s topped with a sweetened cream cheese mixture before baking. Afterward, whipped cream is mixed with cheesecake-flavored dry instant pudding mix. It adds such lusciousness to these baby beauties! Toasted coconut and mini chocolate Easter eggs are the finishing touches. I love the texture contrast between the crunch from the shortbread cookies in conjunction with the super rich and creamy cheesecake filling and whipped cream topping. The toasted coconut adds even more great flavor. The burst of chocolate, especially the crunchy Cadbury egg “shell,” is another winner for a texture-lover like myself!
Ingredients In Mini Easter Cheesecakes
For these fun and festive individual-sized cheesecakes, you’ll need to have on hand the following:
Shortbread cookies Unsalted butter Cream cheese Granulated sugar Sour Cream Eggs Lemon juice Vanilla extract Heavy cream Confectioners’ sugar Instant cheesecake-flavored pudding mix Sweetened shredded coconut Cadbury mini chocolate eggs
How to Make Easter Cheesecakes
Think of these Easter egg cheesecakes as three parts — crust, filling, and topping.
Can I Make This Recipe as a Regular Cheesecake?
I’m sure you could, but I’ve only made mini Easter cheesecakes using this recipe so I can’t speak to bake times, baking methods, etc.
Can I Use a Different Flavor of Pudding?
Yes! Instant vanilla pudding mix can be used instead of cheesecake flavored.
Can the Instant Pudding Be Substituted?
Yes, you can also just use whipped cream and you can omit the pudding mix if you don’t have any on hand or it’s not available in your area.
Can I Omit The Coconut?
In a nutshell, yes you can. I mention this because coconut tends to be a very polarizing food and people either love it or hate it. I think the coconut makes the Easter cheesecakes not only look really festive, but also adds a great flavor element that I believe really ties in so well with Easter and the spring of the year. However, if you just can’t get into coconut, you can skip it noting that they may not look quite as cute and festive.
Tips for Making Easter Egg Cheesecake Bites
It’s best to top the mini cheesecakes with the whipped topping mixture and coconut right before serving. Although you can get away with making these 24-48 hours in advance, noting the crust will soften after about 24 hours in the refrigerator. However, definitely don’t add the Cadbury eggs right until serving because they don’t hold up well in the fridge when touching the whipped cream topping. Make sure your cream cheese is really soft so there aren’t any lumps in the cheesecake! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to rush things and didn’t properly to allow my cream cheese to really come to true room temp. In this recipe, it’s essential so plan ahead!
More Cute Easter Desserts:
Easter Egg Treasure Cake – This FUN cake is made with two different cake mixes. The eggs, chicks, and bunnies from the first cake are cut out and put in the second cake before it’s baked. Decorated with coconut grass and candy eggs, this is a FESTIVE Easter dessert with buried TREASURES inside!! Use the leftover cake to cut out more mini cakes and let the kids decorate for extra fun! Tried this recipe? Leave a review! Consider leaving a 5 star rating if you’ve made and loved one of my recipes!
Easter Egg Bars — Fast, EASY, super soft, and loaded with chocolate M&M’s Eggs galore!! Definitely my favorite type of Easter eggs! SAVE this recipe for your leftover Easter candy!!
Springtime Sugar Cookie Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting — Sugar cookies in bar form with SPRINKLES galore!! FAST, EASY and yummy! Great for springtime, Easter, Mother’s Day, showers, and parties!!
Easter Chocolate Bark – A mixture of milk and white chocolate swirled together and topped with M&Ms and sprinkles!! Such a FAST, EASY, NO-BAKE, and MAKE-AHEAD treat!!
Soft and Chewy M&M’s Cookies — Super soft, chewy, buttery M&M’s cookies that totally are irresistible! Loaded with M&M’s and perfect for springtime, Easter, Mother’s Day and more!
Lemon Lemonies — Like lemon brownies, but made with lemon and white chocolate! Dense, chewy, not cakey and packed with big, bold lemon flavor!
Cream Cheese Carrot Cake Bars — Dense, chewy, super moist bars that taste like carrot cake with a cream cheese topping that’s baked right in so you don’t need to worry about frosting them!! So much EASIER than making carrot cake but with similar flavors you will LOVE!!
