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Matcha Mini Cheesecakes

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By: Joanna Cismaru •12/19/22 83 Comments

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Matcha Mini Cheesecakes with White Chocolate Covered Strawberries – creamy and delicious and full of that great green tea flavor. These little bites of cheesecake are totally yummy and completely addicting!

3 Matcha Mini Cheesecakes topped with white chocolate strawberries on a white plate
Table of Contents Open
  • What Is Matcha?
  • Ingredients
    • Crust
    • Cheesecakes
    • Strawberries
    • Chocolate ganache
  • How To Make Matcha Mini Cheesecakes
  • Tips For Making Cheesecake Bites
  • What’s The Best Cream Cheese To Use For Cheesecake
  • Find Your Mini Cheesecakes Keep Cracking?
  • Storing Cheesecake
  • More Incredible Mini Desserts To Try:
  • Matcha Mini Cheesecakes with White Chocolate Covered Strawberries
    • Ingredients
    • Instructions
    • Equipment
    • Notes
    • Nutrition Information
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What we have here are a dozen Matcha mini cheesecakes with an Oreo cookie crust and white chocolate covered strawberries, which I finally drizzled with some chocolate ganache. Well that’s a mouthful, no pun intended!

Don’t be scared to whip up some of these chocolate covered strawberries. They’re way easier to make than you may think, all we have to do is melt down some white chocolate chips, dip it in, and plunk it down on our cheesecakes. That white chocolate will add some great sweetness to our dessert!

What Is Matcha?

Matcha is a high grade green tea that is from Japan. They take high quality green tea leaves and grind them into fine, bright green powder that is then whisked with boiled water. If you’re familiar with green tea lattes at your local coffee shop, then you’ve had matcha!

Did you know that matcha packs the nutritional benefits of 10 cups of green tea?! It’s full of antioxidants, rich in vitamins and chlorophyll, and also gives you a great caffeine boost. I highly recommend just picking up some of this stuff, it’ll change your mornings for the better!

mini cheesecake pan with crushed oreo cookie crust

Ingredients

Detailed instructions can be found on the printable recipe card at the bottom of the page.

Crust

  • Oreos – You can either crush up whole Oreo cookies or use boxed Oreo crust, look for it in the baking aisle.
  • Butter – Unsalted as we need to control the sodium content of our dish.

Cheesecakes

  • Cream cheese – Ideally you want something that is full fat and softened to room temperature. I’ve included a section below if you’re wondering what cream cheese I use for cheesecakes.
  • Sugar – Granulated white sugar for a crisp clean sweetness to our dessert.
  • Eggs – Be sure to keep your eggs at room temperature before incorporating!
  • Matcha – This green tea powder can be found at local specialty teas shops, health food stores, or even some grocery stores. Just be wary of any flavored matcha, they sometimes contain additional sugar.
  • Vanilla – This ingredient is a secret little flavor weapon that helps enhance the flavors in our cheesecakes. I used extract today to make things easy!

Strawberries

  • Strawberries – Keep the stems and leaves on! It’ll ensure we have a little handle for dipping.
  • White chocolate – We’re using white chocolate chips today to form that perfect little chocolate shell over our strawberries.

Chocolate ganache

  • Cream – Heavy cream, some very full fat cream is important for the base of the ganache!
  • Chocolate – Semi sweet chips, melted to and drizzled over top at the end.
a mixer bowl with matcha cheesecake batter

How To Make Matcha Mini Cheesecakes

  1. Preheat oven: To 350 F degrees.
  2. Bake the crust: In a bowl mix together the Oreo cookie crumbs with the butter. Divide the mixture equally into each cup in the pan and press down. Bake for 7 minutes. Reduce heat to 300 F degrees.
  3. Form the filling: Add the cream cheese and sugar to the bowl of your mixer and mix until smooth for about 3 minutes. Add eggs one at a time and continue mixing. Add matcha green tea powder and vanilla extract and mix until fully incorporated. Do not over mix.
  4. Assemble the cheesecakes: Spoon cheesecake batter into each cup and fill to the top. There should be enough batter for all 12 cups. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool completely. Refrigerate cheesecake for a couple hours.
  5. Make the chocolate covered strawberries: Place the white chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and melt it in the microwave in 30 second intervals. After each 30 seconds stir the chocolate. Mine took about 1 min and 30 seconds to melt. Dip each strawberry in the white chocolate and carefully place over top of each cheesecake.
  6. Finish the cheesecakes: In a small saucepan add the heavy cream, chocolate chips and cook it over a double boiler over boiling water until smooth and warm. You will need to stir occasionally, this won’t take long to make, under 5 minutes. Let cool completely. Drizzle some chocolate ganache over strawberries. (This step is optional)
before an after baking matcha mini cheesecakes in a mini cheesecake pan

Tips For Making Cheesecake Bites

  1. If you don’t have a mini cheesecake pan, muffin or cupcake pans can be used instead. Just be mindful that the crust and cheesecake may need longer to bake. A 9 x 13 inch baking pan also works if you prefer to make a whole cake rather than bites, however, it will take longer to bake, about 45 minutes.
  2. Gluten free flour can be used in the crust to make this dessert gluten free.
  3. Always use ingredients that are at room temperature. Especially when it comes to the cream cheese. If your cream cheese is at room temperature, it’s a lot easier to mix and won’t leave lumps.

What’s The Best Cream Cheese To Use For Cheesecake

I prefer using Philadelphia cream cheese because it always makes a super silky cheesecake. However, if you can’t find the Philadelphia brand, use a cream cheese that is full fat for best results.

Find Your Mini Cheesecakes Keep Cracking?

My little cheesecakes cracked, all but one, mostly because I probably over mixed the cheesecake ingredients and too much air got in, so don’t overmix. Even if yours do crack, I wouldn’t worry about it too much, we’re going to cover the top with a decadent little chocolate covered strawberry. Nobody will see the cracks, so don’t stress over it.

Matcha Mini Cheesecake topped with white chocolate covered strawberry on a white plate

Storing Cheesecake

This recipe made enough crust and cheesecake mixture for 6 additional mini matcha cheesecakes. As I didn’t have another mini cake pan on hand I just popped each mixture separately into the fridge till I was ready to make more.

Cooked cheesecake also freezes really well, just place the cakes fully cooled and uncovered on a pan in the freezer and allow to freeze entirely. Remove them and wrap fully in plastic wrap and aluminum foil till ready to eat. This method should ensure the cheesecake lasts 3 months.

More Incredible Mini Desserts To Try:

  • Mini Salted Caramel Cheesecakes
  • Mini Tiramisu Cheesecakes
  • Chocolate Cheesecake Santa Hats
  • Mini Blueberry Galettes
  • Peanut Butter Mini Tarts With Rolos
  • Mini Gluten Free Cherry Pies
  • Easy Chocolate Fudge

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matcha mini cheesecakes with white chocolate covered strawberries
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4.75 from 62 votes

Matcha Mini Cheesecakes with White Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Prep 30 minutes
Cook 27 minutes
Total 57 minutes
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Matcha Mini Cheesecakes with White Chocolate Covered Strawberries – creamy and delicious and full of that great green tea flavor. These little bites of cheesecake are totally yummy and completely addicting!
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Ingredients

For Crust

  • 1 cup Oreo cookies (crushed, 4.8 oz or 135 g)
  • 2 tablespoon butter (unsalted, melted)

For Cheesecake

  • 16 ounce cream cheese (2 pkg, at room temperature)
  • 2/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs (at room temperature)
  • 2 tablespoon matcha green tea powder
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For Strawberries

  • 12 strawberries (with stems on)
  • 1 cup chocolate chips white

Chocolate Ganache

  • 1/4 cup heavy cream
  • 4 ounce semisweet chocolate chips

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Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 350 F degrees.
  • In a bowl mix together the oreo cookie crumbs with the butter. Divide the mixture equally into each cup in the pan and press down. Bake for 7 minutes.
  • Reduce heat to 300 F degrees.
  • Add the cream cheese and sugar to the bowl of your mixer and mix until smooth for about 3 minutes. Add eggs one at a time and continue mixing. Add matcha green tea powder and vanilla extract and mix until fully incorporated. Do not over mix.
  • Spoon cheesecake batter into each cup and fill to the top. There should be enough batter for all 12 cups.
  • Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool completely. Refrigerate cheesecake for a couple hours.
  • Place the white chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and melt it in the microwave in 30 second intervals. After each 30 seconds stir the chocolate. Mine took about 1 min and 30 seconds to melt. Dip each strawberry in the white chocolate and carefully place over top of each cheesecake.
  • In a small sauce pan add the heavy cream, chocolate chips and cook it over a double boiler over boiling water until smooth and warm. You will need to stir occasionally, this won’t take long to make, under 5 minutes. Let cool completely. Drizzle some chocolate ganache over strawberries. (This step is optional)

Equipment

  • Mini Cheesecake Pan

Notes

  1. To freeze, place the cakes, fully cooled and uncovered, on a pan in the freezer and allow to freeze entirely. Remove them and wrap fully in plastic wrap and aluminum foil till ready to eat. This method should ensure the cheesecake lasts 3 months.
  2. Please keep in mind that nutritional information is a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

Nutrition Information

Serving: 1cheesecakeCalories: 374kcal (19%)Carbohydrates: 39g (13%)Protein: 8g (16%)Fat: 21g (32%)Saturated Fat: 12g (75%)Cholesterol: 63mg (21%)Sodium: 266mg (12%)Potassium: 251mg (7%)Fiber: 1g (4%)Sugar: 32g (36%)Vitamin A: 515IU (10%)Vitamin C: 7mg (8%)Calcium: 104mg (10%)Iron: 2mg (11%)
© Author Joanna Cismaru

Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.

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Mary
Mary
Posted: 2 years ago

Can I use a different base than oreo?

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Jo Cooks Team
Jo Cooks Team
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Posted: 2 years ago

Absolutely! You can use your preference 🙂

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Keely
Keely
Posted: 2 years ago

4 stars
Excited to try match in a cheesecake! I do layered cakes with a cheesecake layer in the middle so my next one will be devils food cake and matcha cheesecake with chocolate frosting as to bind the layers and cream cheese frosting with raspberry compote. ***oh! And don’t pull your cheesecake out of the oven too soon! That’s why they crack. Let it set for 30min to an hr depending on the size of your pan

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Florence
Florence
Posted: 2 years ago

If I want to bake this in a 8″ round cake tin, is the recipe the same?
You did mention the baking time should be 45 minutes instead but I’m wondering if its the same amount of ingredients
Thanks

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Joanna Cismaru
Joanna Cismaru
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Reply to  Florence
Posted: 2 years ago

It might take about an hour to bake. To check if the cake is done, shake the pan and the cake should pretty much be set, except for the center which should still jiggle slightly.

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Kathy
Kathy
Posted: 2 years ago

5 stars
Thank you for the recipe! my family loves it so
much.

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Christal
Christal
Posted: 2 years ago

Did you grease the pan or is it enough from the cream cheese in the cheesecake to not stick?

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Joanna Cismaru
Joanna Cismaru
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Posted: 2 years ago

You don’t need to grease them, I didn’t grease mine and they didn’t stick.

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J. Knight
J. Knight
Posted: 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing!! Can you tell me what matcha tea you used? I’m not seeing the link in your post.

Thanks so much!

Jacqueline.

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Jo Cooks Team
Jo Cooks Team
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Posted: 2 years ago

Any regular matcha will work! I don’t recall exactly which brand we used.

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Rachel
Rachel
Posted: 2 years ago

Possible if the recipe is cut into half , for 6 mini cakes instead ?

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Jo Cooks Team
Jo Cooks Team
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Posted: 2 years ago

For sure!

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Marinela
Marinela
Posted: 3 years ago

5 stars
Hello Jo,
I have tried your recipe, it looks fabulous and taste so good.
Thank you very much! 😀

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Sarah
Sarah
Posted: 3 years ago

Is it possible to use a standard cupcake pan for this recipe?

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Nicole Beaulieu
Nicole Beaulieu
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Posted: 3 years ago

Yes you can! The cheesecakes will be a bit bigger in a muffin tin so you’ll yield less and may have to bake them longer.

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Kath
Kath
Posted: 3 years ago

Hi! I just want to confirm something; 2 pkg means 2 pkgs of cream cheese 16oz EACH? So that will be 32oz?

TIA! 😄😄😄

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Joanna Cismaru
Joanna Cismaru
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Reply to  Kath
Posted: 3 years ago

No, a pkg is 8 oz, so 16 oz – 2 packages. 🙂 You only need 16 oz of cream cheese in total. 🙂

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Sharon
Sharon
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Posted: 2 years ago

Ohhh. That means I used double the amount of cream cheese.

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anaimal jam
anaimal jam
Posted: 4 years ago

5 stars
These mini cheesecakes look so good~~ Wow! Thank you for sharing the recipe!

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Nikki
Nikki
Posted: 4 years ago

If I were to use a standard spring form pan, how long would you recomended I bake it?

Also, do you have metric conversions for this?

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Nicole Beaulieu
Nicole Beaulieu
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Posted: 4 years ago

We’re just in the process of adding metric conversions to all the recipes- I’ve updated it now, you can convert to metric in the recipe card 🙂 I would bake this at 350F for 30-40 mintutes.

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v-bucks
v-bucks
Posted: 4 years ago

5 stars
Your pan looks awesome. I need one like that!

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Nicole Beaulieu
Nicole Beaulieu
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It’s from Amazon! You can get it here.

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Posted: 4 years ago

5 stars
These mini cheesecakes look so good~~ Wow! Thank you for sharing the recipe!

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Paolo Cappuccini
Paolo Cappuccini
Posted: 5 years ago

5 stars
How do you make the nutrition facts label? Wonderful recipe!

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Joanna Cismaru
Joanna Cismaru
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It’s part of the recipe plugin, thanks!

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