HOLIDAY CHEESECAKE JEWELS

I'll be posting some holiday recipes and hope you'll have fun experimenting with them. I promise they won't be too complicated. Each year around this time I start browsing through recipe books and holiday magazines in search of different kinds of cookies to bake and share, and almost every year I end up baking the old familiar ones instead. This year is going to be different. Enjoy!

HOLIDAY CHEESECAKE JEWELS

Ingredients For Cheesecake:

2 - 8 ounce pkgs cream cheese (room temp)

3 eggs

2/3 cup sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 Tbsp. lemon juice

1 box vanilla wafers

Ingredients For Topping:

1 pint sour cream

2 Tbsp. sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 can cherry or blueberry pie filling

For Cheesecake: Cream together first 5 ingredients. Beat until smooth, about 2 minutes. Place vanilla wafers (flat side down) in cupcake liners. Fill ½ full with the above mixture. Bake at 350° for 20 minutes. Cool 1 hour.

For Topping: Beat together sour cream, sugar, and vanilla, then spread mixture over baked cheesecake by teaspoonsful. Bake at 350° for 5 minutes. Cool and top with a spoonful of cherry or blueberry pie filling. Chill. Makes 30-32 servings.