For months I have been wanting to experiment with my 9 inch cheesecake recipe and see how many 4 inchers I could get out of it. So yesterday I finally got the chance to do just that! I had all of my ingredients prepped and ready to go. I decided after making the filling that I didn’t want all of my mini cheesecakes to be plain. So I prepped the four 4 inch springform pans that I have and separated the cheesecake filling into four bowls. I added mini
chocolate chips to one bowl and lemon zest to another. I poured each bowl into a springform pan. I added a few drops of raspberry preserves to the top of the third cheesecake leaving the fourth plain. Now I was ready to put the mini cheesecakes in the oven and bake them. They baked for 40 minutes. During that time I worked on another recipe of mine, but that is for a different blog entry. When it was time to pull the cheesecakes out of the oven I was slightly disappointed when I saw that two of the cheesecakes overflowed. I came to the conclusion that I am able to get five of the 4 inch cheesecakes out of my 9 inch recipe.

Hi, my name is Katie and this is my very first blog so please be patient with me. I am by no means an excellent or even great writer but I will try my best. I am a single mom, my son was born in 2005, as well as a student and a baker. My son is my life and through him is how I discovered my passion and talent for baking. I started out by making chocolates when he was almost two years old and it was mostly to occupy my time after he would go to bed. Then
that progressed to baking, and I loved it so much that I started collecting recipes. After a while my family and friends were encouraging me to go back to college and pursue a baking degree. After a lot of thinking I decided that when my son started Kindergarten that I would go back to school, and that is exactly what I did. Since then I have been looking for new recipes and experimenting with them. My goal is to open a bakery in the York/Dover PA area (where I live). You can see what I am capable of making on my blog, my website, and my Facebook
Fan Page. I hope that you like what you see!