Beautiful summer berries make these festive no bake cheesecake shooters perfect for your Memorial Day or 4th of July bbq!
Hi all, I’m Kari and I’m so glad to be here today 🙂 When Meaghan said she was looking for someone to do a guest post about desserts, I was thrilled! I love desserts, but typically stick to making easy weeknight dinner recipes over at Crazy Cat Girl. I’m a HUGE fan of cheesecake (who isn’t?) and have a recipe using a shortbread cookie crust. I knew these Berry Cheesecake Shooters were meant to be after seeing Meaghan’s Key Lime Pie Dessert Shooters.
The Inspiration for the Berry Cheesecake Shooters
Growing up, my mom would make the no-bake cheesecake recipe off the cream cheese package and then top it with canned cherries. These shooters use FRESH strawberries and blueberries (pick them up at a farmers’ market in your area to get them super fresh and in season!). The real “twist” from the traditional cheesecake is the crust – which isn’t crust or graham crackers at all, but pie crumble (like the sweet crunchy goodness on top of pies – yes!!). You can portion up the layers of pie crumble, berries, and cheesecake however you would like, using more or less of each in each shot glass.
What should I put the cheesecake shooters in?
A tip for the shot glasses: I actually got glass candle holders with one of those sale coupons from a craft store or you can find them at a dollar store. You can reuse them in the future for candle votives and there is a great DIY project to make your own polka dot or swirl votives (they make awesome gifts!).
The red, white, and blue theme of these Berry Cheesecake Shooters is perfect for Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, but taste good year round!
If you have leftover pie crumble, use it on top of oatmeal, yogurt or ice cream!
Berry Cheesecake Shooters with Pie Crumble
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
This recipe will make 6-10 shooters, depending on the size of the shot glass. To make larger portion sizes, use mini-mason jars instead of shot glasses (you can get 4-6 servings depending on the size of the mason jar you use).
Paige @ Where Latin Meets Lagniappe
Monday 16th of May 2016
These are just adorable Meaghan -- totally perfect for summer! And I love the candle holder idea!
Meaghan
Friday 20th of May 2016
Yes! These are super cute and almost too pretty to eat. Almost ;)
~Meaghan