On the 20th day of Christmas - Cheescake pops

On the 20th day of Christmas my true love gave to me........... Cheescake pops

These were so much fun to make, inspired by cheescake pops from http://www.bakerella.com/

I couldn't resist stirring the Christmas sprinkles through the cheescake as well, the colours held without bleeding through the mix.

Step one was to take balls of cheescake mixture, insert a lollipop stick and sit in the freezer for 30 minutes.

Once chilled I dipped each in melted chocolate and sprinkled with Christmas themed sprinkles.

As mine were going to be served on a plate, I allowed them to set with sticks in the air - if you wish to serve them the other way up, use a block of polystyrene to poke sticks in to, to allow chocolate to set. As the cheescake is cold, the chocolate sets quickly, so have your sprinkles close at hand, you'll have to work fast.

On the 13th day of Christmas - Strawberry heart cheesecakes

On the 13th day of Christmas my true love gave to me............... Strawberry heart cheescakes

Strawberries are such a Christmas thing for me - it's when they are at their best. These were fun to make. I pressed my cheesecake base down in to the bottom of 12 foil cupcake papers (which I had placed in a muffin tray). Then I put the cheescake mixture down on top. (note to self, cheescake mixture is wet and difficult to spread in small areas piping it in would have kept the interior rim of my cupcake papers cleaner). I topped each with 1x dark Hersheys chocolate kiss.

The strawberry heart was cut from a slice of strawberry using the 2nd smallest heart cutter from the modern hearts cutter set I thought the flip of the hearts point, echoed the point of the Hersheys kiss nicely.

I could not decide whether I liked it best before or after the edible glitter stars went on. What do you think ?