Mini Orange Cheesecakes

Ingredients:

• 8 oz plain sweet biscuits (please explain to me what store carries an ingredient labeled "plain sweet biscuits". Central market told me they use graham crackers so that is what I did.)
• 4 oz unsalted butter, melted
• 4 oranges
• 8 oz cream cheese, softened (Matt and I are thinking we were supposed to let it soften by letting it sit out, that didn't happen so we stuck it in the microwave. weird.)
• 3/4 cup condensed milk (did you know the grocery store carries both sweetened and unsweetened. I went with sweetened. and p.s. GROSS, condensed milk is disgusting.)
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon orange juice

This week I went to get ingredients on Thursday. Minus the sweet plain biscuits, which I got at Central Market during lunch. And, great news, I found Amaretti cookies, which I bought out of principle. The trip to Central Market did NOT help our budget. lol.

Tonight's dish was made for the Wannemacher's. We think a paring with Blue Moon beer will go nicely. We also mentioned it to another one of Matt's friends who wanted some so we doubled the recipe. With all the excitement around our first homemade cheesecake we invited Jamie over for dinner and dessert. Only after did we read the last sentence of the recipe which stated "refrigerate overnight". So she took it to go.

We will see how it goes. I am a bit concerned that we substituted "using an electric beater, beat on medium speed for five minutes" with Alex holding the bowl and Matt stirring "really fast". Perhaps I will look into some bakeware for my birthday.

Pictures include:

1. Lemmon trying really hard to be good while we cooked.

2. Our makeshift "3 inch fluted flan tins" - where do they sell these? Not at Michael's or the grocery store.?

3. Matt, the food processor

4. Matt, the blender

5. The final product going into the fridge

Well it should be said that last Friday's dessert, while it looked nothing like the picture, tasted pretty good. Brian was the recipient - and he says he liked it.