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Pumpkin-flavored cheesecake with a festive Oreo bottom and a spiderweb top, these Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes are the perfect Halloween inspired treat! Based on my classic Mini Cheesecakes, these are so great for Fall and spooky season.
Perfect for Halloween!
This recipe is not only just adorable but really easy to make! If you are short on time but need to make something for your kids’ Halloween parties at school or bring something to work, these Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes would be a good option! So, get your Halloween baking groove on and whip some of these babies up! You’ll be glad you did! 🙂
Looking for more Halloween Recipes? Here are a couple: Mummy Dogs, Halloween Boo-Cuterie Board, Spider Halloween Cookies, Halloween Oreo Frozen Hot Chocolate, Monster Munch (Halloween Snack Mix), Monster Blood and Guts (Raspberry Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread), and Halloween Oreo White Chocolate Brownie Loaf.
How to Make Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes
These Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes are made up of three simple parts, the Oreo bottom, the pumpkin cheesecake, and the chocolate spiderweb top! For full recipe details, including measurements and baking time, see the recipe card down below. Here is what you can expect when making this recipe:
A Note About Cream Cheese:
When making any cheesecake, I always use Philadelphia Cream Cheese! That brand just has something about it that makes for the perfect cheesecakes. Be sure to leave it out for a couple of hours to soften.
Preheat + Prep
Preheat the oven and line a muffin tin with cupcake paper liner. Drop an Oreo in the bottom of each liner.
Make Cheesecake Batter + Bake
In large bowl, whip cream cheese and sugar together until smooth.
Stir in vanilla, pumpkin, egg, cinnamon, nutmeg, flour and salt until combined.
Scrape sides of bowl and whip mixture until completely smooth.
Spoon mixture evenly over Oreos. Bake until cheesecakes have set. Remove from oven to cool.
Allow to Cool
Transfer warm cheesecakes out of tin and finish cooling on cooling racks. Gently remove paper wrappers.
Decorate the Cupcakes
I did a fun spiderweb design on the top with melted chocolate but that is optional. See below on how I made the design. If you opt out of the spiderweb design, consider topping these with homemade whipped cream.
Keep them in the fridge until you are ready to serve! Told you it was easy!
How to Make the Chocolate Spiderweb Design
This fancy design is actually quite easy to achieve! But if you are still worried about it, I’ve got step-by-step instructions down below 🙂
- Once the cheesecakes are completely cooled remove from the muffin tins and the paper liners.
- Microwave chocolate chips and vegetable oil until smooth and completely melted.
- Spoon melted chocolate into a piping bag with a small round tip or into a plastic baggy with one of the bottom corners snipped off.
- Pipe in a spiral on top of cheesecakes. Drag the end of a toothpick through the chocolate (from the center to the edges) to create a spiderweb look.
- Repeat with remaining cheesecakes. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Storage + Make Ahead Directions
Since we have cream cheese in these, they need to be stored in the fridge. Store in an airtight container large enough to not disturb the spiderweb design. These will stay fresh for 1-2 days.
Make Ahead – These are great to make ahead. I would suggest making the mini cheesecakes, allow them to cool completely and then store in the fridge until ready to add the spiderweb design or frosting, etc.
More Mini Cheesecake Recipes to Try!
- Mini Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecakes
- Red Velvet Cheesecakes
- Mini Turtle Cheesecakes
- Cookie Dough Cheesecakes
- Mini Tie Dye Cheesecakes
Make Halloween extra special this year by making these Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes for your kids!
The printable recipe card is below. Happy Halloween, friends! 🙂
Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese 1 block, softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup pureed pumpkin
- 1 egg
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- pinch of salt
- 12 Halloween Oreos
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Line 12 muffin tins with paper liners. Place 1 oreo in the bottom of each muffin tin. Set aside.
- In large bowl, whip cream cheese and sugar together until smooth.
- Stir in vanilla, pumpkin, egg, cinnamon, nutmeg, flour and salt until combined.
- Scrape sides of bowl and whip mixture until completely smooth.
- Spoon mixture evenly over oreos. Bake 20-25 minutes or until cheesecakes have set. Remove from oven to cool.
- Transfer warm cheesecakes out of tin and finish cooling on cooling racks. Gently remove paper wrappers.
- Microwave chocolate chips with vegetable oil until smooth and completely melted. Spoon chocolate into a piping bag with a small round tip.
- Pipe melted chocolate in a spiral on top of cheesecakes.
- Drag the end of a toothpick or wooden skewer through the chocolate to create a spiders web look.
- Repeat with remaining cheesecakes. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Thank you for this, looks really easy to make. Delicious as well. Yummy 😋
I just love ’em!
oh yummy, that looks so delicious. I know what you mean about the high cost of fine dining. I’ll have to try your recipe.
These are so cute! I had planned to make cheesecake brownies with a spiderweb-y top this weekend – great minds think alike! 🙂
They look great!!! So glad you tried my recipe out:-)
They charge way too much for their cheesecake!
And this recipe looks so good.
This was a simple recipe to follow. It also tasted delicious. Thanks for your sharing
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This is perfect Halloween dessert.I’ve featured this recipe on my blog, hoping that you don’t mind, but if you do, please contact me and I’ll remove it. All the best.
Hi Lauren i’m going to make these for my son for his Halloween party i’m also going to try this with chocolate covered oreo’s and white chocolate cheese cake batter
Hi Lauren!!! I just wanted to let you know that your Halloween oreo pumpkin cheesecakes are going to be the “hit” this year for my little italian kindergarten children! Yes,that’s right ….YOUR GOING INTERNATIONAL!!!!!!! 🙂 :):) I’m from Chicago,moved to Italy 42 years ago….miss my never forgotten BEAUTIFUL country…..and now I’m teaching english to…. 38 little curious “volcanoes”….( three to six years old 🙂 ! ) Italy doesn’t celebrate Halloween…..BUT I SURELY DO !!!!! and I get my little ones to celebrate it with me !!! so, this year,I’m going to bake your cheesecakes for them all. You know, Lauren,it’s only about two years that they sell Oreo cookies in the stores here in Italy…..(I’m not kidding you !!!!) It’s been 40 years since I ate my last one……CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT???????? but ,anyway, now they’re here ( AT LAST!!!!) the only thing is that there isn’t the halloween type of Oreos so I’ll probably try to take them apart and try coloring the cream orange….I’m going to try baking them a bit before halloween so I can test the way they come out…..thank you so much for sharing your recipe with …..me !!Love and kisses…..from Italy……and me 🙂 :):) !!!!!!
Hi Dawn!! That is too cool 🙂 Send me photos of your little cheesecakes for your kindergarteners! Hope you {and they} like them!! Thanks for the message.
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I recently found this blog (and am so in love with it), this is the first recipe I tried. I wanted it for the pumpkin cheesecake combination with the oreo crust, not necessarily for the (totally) cute Halloween theme since I didn’t find it until after Halloween this year. So I didn’t use Halloween Oreos and didn’t do the spideweb. I made this dessert for a neighborhood wine night that we do, and received a mixed review. I had people who loved the Oreo that had softened and absored some of the cheesecake flavor and others (like myself) who loved the pumpkin cheesecake portion but could go either way about the Oreo with it. The Oreo at the bottom was still a little hard on some of the cheesecakes, and perfect with the others. I would want to find a remedy to make it more consistent next time I make them, I may dip the Oreos in milk or something before baking next time to soften them… not quite sure. Overall, definitely a fun recipe and easy to make. AWESOME cheesecake and spices with the pumpkin ( I love that it didn’t call for pumpkin pie spice which I’m sick of 🙂 ) I would use the same concept next time and leave out the Pumpkin until next Halloween. Can’t wait to try another one of your recipes very soon!
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Yummy!! I might get some of the red christmas oreo’s and do this for christmas or thanksgiving…
I’m making these for a party on Saturday. I can’t wait to try them!
Awesome! Hope you like them!
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I didn’t expect much with this recipe. I was pretty sure I would not like it in fact. Was I wrong! I am not a big pumpkin fan but it turned out wonderfully! This recipe is a keeper!
It’s possible that I love you and hate you all at once. These just skyrocketed to my must-do list. Going to have to pin this one for sure!
These turned out great!!!
they look yummy! I’m done with my Halloween baking this year (ie: eyeballs, cupcakes) but I filed this recipe for next year. Thanks!!
OK, I’m seeing a possible treat to make for my recital on Sunday. So colorful, and frankly, Halloweenish! I’ll be looking forward to the rest of your ideas!
What a fun idea. Great combination of creamy and crunchy.
Oh my gosh. I am not typically a huge fan of cheesecake- but I have to say, these are really cute and the pumpkin makes them kinda irresistible!
What a deliciously cute treat for that fun night!