Cheesecake Surprise Bites

These cheesecake bites are a surprise because although they look similar on the outside, they each contain a different flavour of cheesecake.  I chose strawberry, blueberry and peanut butter for my bites.  You could easily use pumpkin, lemon zest, caramel bits, maraschino cherries or whatever other flavouring agent you could think to mix into the basic cheesecake filling.  

You could also scale back the surprise by using toppings to differentiate flavours from their chocolate shell, however I found that all of these were so delicious it didn't matter to me which flavour I got.  Extremely rich and decadent just one was more than enough to satisfy, however they were amazing and everyone who tried them ended up eating many many more. 

Preheat  oven to 350.  Combine sugar and cream cheese in a bowl until creamy. 

Add egg and vanilla, beating until combined.  

Stir in sour cream.

Mix graham crackers, butter and sugar. Line 3 bread pans with aluminum foil and spray with cooking spray.  Divide graham cracker mixture into 3 and press into bread pans.  Bake each pan for seven to ten minutes or  until set. 

Split cream cheese mixture into three bowls.  Mix blueberry pie filling, strawberry pie filling and peanut butter into each bowl. 

Pour one bowl in to each bread pan. Bake 30 to 45 minutes or until set along edges of the pan. 

Allow each pan to cool for about 2 hours. Refrigerate for four hours to overnight. 

Cut into one inch squares then freeze overnight.  Be sure to use tupperware or tightly cover the pans you freeze the bites in, or else they will form ice crystal.  These ice crystals will melt into water when dipping in chocolate and cause your chocolate to seize up. 

Melt chocolate in a double boiler.  

Dip each frozen cheesecake bite in chocolate.  Dipping cheesecake side down will prevent the crust from flaking off into the chocolate and ending up all over your bites. Place on parchment paper.  Once dipped sprinkle toppings if using over the bites.  If you're having trouble keeping straight which bites are which flavour use a permanent marker to write the flavour on the overhanging edge of the parchment paper.  Place in fridge to set.  

Cheesecake Surprise Bites

Crust
2 cup finely crushed graham crackers (9 graham crackers)
5 tablespoons butter, melted
3 tablespoons of white sugar

Cheesecake
2 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup sour cream

Flavourings
2/3 cups strawberry pie filling
2/3 cups blueberry pie filling
2/3 cups peanut butter

Coating
6 (12-ounce) package (2 cups) real semi-sweet chocolate chips
4 tablespoons butter
Crushed candy bars, sprinkles etc for decoration (optional)

Adapted from: Barbara Bakes