1 cups sugar
1/8 cup all-purpose flour
1/8 tsp salt
3 small eggs
1 egg yolk
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/8 cup heavy cream
boiling water as needed
lollipop sticks (I used bamboo sticks)
Assorted decorations such as chopped nuts, colored jimmies, crushed peppermints, mini chocolate chips, sanding sugars, dragees)
Position oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 325°F. Set some water to boil.
In a large bowl, beat together the cream cheese, sugar, flour, and salt until smooth. If using a mixer, mix on low speed. Add the whole eggs and the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well (but still at low speed) after each addition. Beat in the vanilla and cream.
Grease a 10-inch cake pan (not a springform pan), and pour the batter into the cake pan. Place the pan in a larger roasting pan. Fill the roasting pan with the boiling water until it reaches halfway up the sides of the cake pan. Bake until the cheesecake is firm and slightly golden on top, 35 to 45 minutes.
Remove the cheesecake from the water bath and cool to room temperature. Cover the cheesecake with plastic wrap and refrigerate until very cold, at least 3 hours or up to overnight.
When the cheesecake is cold and very firm, scoop the cheesecake into 2-ounce balls and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Carefully insert a lollipop stick into each cheesecake ball. Freeze the cheesecake pops, uncovered, until very hard, at least 1 – 2 hours.
When the cheesecake pops are frozen and ready for dipping, prepare the chocolate. In the top of a double boiler, set over simmering water, or in a heatproof bowl set over a pot of simmering water, heat half the chocolate and half the shortening, stirring often, until chocolate is melted and chocolate and shortening are combined. Stir until completely smooth. Do not heat the chocolate too much or your chocolate will lose it’s shine after it has dried. Save the rest of the chocolate and shortening for later dipping, or use another type of chocolate for variety.
Alternately, you can microwave the same amount of chocolate coating pieces on high at 30 second intervals, stirring until smooth.
Quickly dip a frozen cheesecake pop in the melted chocolate, swirling quickly to coat it completely. Shake off any excess into the melted chocolate. If you like, you can now roll the pops quickly in optional decorations. You can also drizzle them with a contrasting color of melted chocolate (dark chocolate drizzled over milk chocolate or white chocolate over dark chocolate, etc.) Place the pop on a clean parchment paper-lined baking sheet to set. Repeat with remaining pops, melting more chocolate and shortening (or confectionery chocolate pieces) as needed.
Refrigerate the pops for up to 24 hours, until ready to serve.
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36 Comments
YUM! You did a good job decorating them!
Those look great. I love you pictures. :-)
Oh you did such an excellent job. Your came out the way I imagined mine would, except I could never quite get mine into the shape of a ball. I love how evenly coated each bite is in colorful sprinkles. Bravo!
They look great!
Oh your lollipops are beautiful! I’m so happy to have discovered your blog.xx fanny
these are adorable!
Your pops are beautiful! Looks like your coating didn’t firm up quite so fast, which made for nice decoration. Great job!
I love the image! they just look fantastic.
deeee-lish!
Beautiful pops, Marija! I love different variations you came up with! And they look perfect and not sloppy as mine did:)) Are those your hands? Looks like you are holding a flower bouquet. Beautiful pictures!
Yours are amazing. I am full of envy!Oh and I had to click on the link to the piggies. Freakin’ adorable!
Your pops look so perfect! Great work!
Those are just precious! Love your photography skills. Very pretty.
They look deeelish very pretty!
You always make such pretty little things! Love the beautiful photos!!
GREAT photo! Very nice
Lovely pops and now that you’ve made your first cheesecake- there’s no turning back!
The photo on TasteSpotting is amazing! I think you did fantastic job on these pops. Very well done!
I’m still reeling from the sugar high :)Congratulations! The pops look awesome
great photo and awesome looking ‘pops’.
Terrific bouquet of pops! Gorgeous!
You did a fabulous job on your pops. Natalie @ Gluten A Go Go
Gosh, Marija! Simply beautiful!
SO bright and colourful! Fantastic job.
love the photo!
Amazing! Great job! Awesome shots!
Great looking pops!
Oh my, those pops look groovy
Those are adorable pops! Excellent job on the challenge. I just discovered your blog and it’s lovely.
They’re beautiful! Great job.
Pretty and breath-taking shots!
wow! this looks yummy!
Your cheesecake pops look gorgeous! Great job!Cheers,Rosa
some offer a flower bouquet, but you … whaow !!!! a cheesecake pop present :)great great great job
This is the most delicious bouquet I have seen! Great job on your challenge!
Beautiful photo, Marija! I love all the different colours!
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