Orange Vanilla No Bake Mini Cheesecake Jars
Featuring Natalie's
Lemon Juice
and
Orange Juice
Ingredients
- 4 whole graham crackers
- 3 tbsp butter melted
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 8 oz cream cheese softened
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 cup Natalie's Orange Juice
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 eggs + 3 egg yolks
- ¼ cup Natalie's Lemon Juice
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 3 tbsp butter cold
- 4 small mason jars for serving
Directions
- Prepare the orange curd by combining the orange juice, sugar, egg, egg yolks lemon juice and cornstarch in a small saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Whisk to completely combine and bring this mixture to a boil. Once boiling lower the temperature to medium-low.
- Continue stirring/whisking and add the cold butter. Continuously stirring until it's melted.
- Cook this at medium-low for about 5 minutes then transfer to a glass bowl to cool down.
- While that cools in a food processor pulse the graham crackers until they become fine like sand.
- Add the butter and sugar and turn on the food processor until it’s all combined.
- Press equal amounts of the crust into the bottoms of the 4 mason jars to create the crust. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl use your hand mixer with a whisk attachment to whip the heavycream to stiff peaks for about 2-3 minutes.
- In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer with the paddle attachment beat the cream cheese ½ of the orange curd and ½ cup of sugar until smooth.
- Once combined gently fold in the whipped cream using a spatula.
- Spoon the mixture equally into the 4 mason jars.
- Top with reserved orange curd if desired and place in the refrigerator for 1 hour to set.
- Top with an orange slice and extra crumbled graham crackers. Enjoy!