Easy Cheesecake Cupcakes...paula Deen

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 2 (8 ounce) packages philadelphia cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon butter flavor extract
• 2 eggs
• 12 vanilla wafers
• 1 cup seedless raspberry jam
• 1 pint fresh raspberry
• 2 tablespoons powdered sugar, for dusting

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350°f.
• 2 place a paper cupcake liner in each of 12 muffin cups.
• 3 beat cream cheese with a hand-held electric mixer until fluffy. add granulated sugar and butter extract, beating well. add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 4 place a vanilla wafer, flat-side down, in each muffin cup. spoon cream cheese mixture over wafers. bake for 20 minutes.
• 5 allow tarts to cool completely. when cool, top each cheesecake cupcake with 1/2 tablespoons of raspberry jam and fresh raspberries. dust with powdered sugar.