Oreo Pumpkin Cheesecakes

On Sunday, I was putzing around Pinterest I found this:

Source: laurenslatest.com via Karin on Pinterest

"AMAZEBALLS. I must have it!" I thought. 
And (miraculously) I had all the supplies already in my kitchen. 
So I got to it. It was super easy. And super delicious. 

Basically, you get out your muffin/cupcake tin, put in some cupcake liners, drop an Oreo in each one, mix all the ingredients together until smooth, put the mix on top of each Oreo, and bake. DONE! See, told ya it was easy!

Here's what you need: 

1-8 oz. package cream cheese, 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 [I don't like the Halloween version, so I just used regular...tastes just as good!]
1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional)

Here's what you do: 

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 Oreo.  Bake 20-25 minutes or until cheesecakes have set. Remove from oven to cool. Once cheesecakes are cool enough to handle, remove from muffin tin. Remove paper wrappers. Microwave chocolate chips until smooth and completely melted. Spoon chocolate into a piping bag with a small round tip. Pipe melted chocolate in concentric circles on top of cheesecakes. Drag the end of a toothpick through the chocolate to create a spiders web look. Repeat with remaining cheesecakes. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

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I brought mine to work. They were gone in literally 10 minutes!

Mine look a tad different, because we had an "incident" with our chocolate chips. C decided he wanted to help, and instead of microwaving the chips like the recipe says, he wanted to be more "authentic" and try to melt them with a dutch oven. It didn't work. It came out more like ice cream texture. Then he decided to put it in a plastic bowl and warm it in the microwave for a minute. It burned through the plastic, left the apartment with a pungent smell, and no more chocolate chips. This is why he cooks, and I bake!