Need more salted caramel recipe ideas? No need to fear! Check out my Salted Carmel Cheesecake Bars, Salted Caramel Stuffed Double Chocolate Cookies, and Slow Cooker Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate next! Cheesecake and pretzels and SALTED CARAMEL and gahhhhhhhhhhh there’s just too much goodness here. Who am I kidding. You can never have too much goodness. These have the perfect amount of goodness going on. Let me first say that I am not a picky eater. There aren’t very many things I won’t eat. For instance, I love pickles but will not eat pickle relish. I also love grapes but don’t do raisins. Craisins? YES. Raisins? NO. Those are two of probably 6 things I just won’t eat. But there are some things that I can get a little picky with specific aspects of, like mint ice cream. My friend Whitnee just asked me yesterday how I feel about mint chocolate chip ice cream and I said it depends. If it’s really good mint chocolate chip ice cream then I LOVE it. But if the flavor of the mint is weird then not so much love is happening. I’m the same way with cheesecakes. I heart cream cheese big time but if it completely over powers the rest of the flavors in the cheesecake and it starts to taste “sour-ish” and way too rich then I’m not on board. I always get carried away when I look into the glass cases at the front of the Cheesecake Factory – sooooooooo many flavors!!! – but at the end of the day my favorite is a classic, old fashioned, new york style cheesecake with maybe some raspberry sauce or chocolate shavings on top. There’s something about that graham cracker crust and vanilla cheesecake combo that I just never get sick of. So today we are taking that combo I love so much and turning it into a mini cheesecake you will absolutely fall in love with. They look pretty – pretty enough to be served at a wedding even don’t you think?? But don’t let their good looks fool you, these babies are E to the Z. So simple. And that’s what I love most about them. They start out with a buttery graham cracker crust that is just 4 ingredients. Graham crackers + butter + sugar + cinnamon. Done. Top that with a mini pretzel twist, a very simple yet totally insanely yummy cheesecake layer, and then top it off with a bit of caramel sauce, another pretzel (!!!) and a little sprinkle of sea salt. Tada! That’s all there is to it. And that caramel sauce? You can make my super easy homemade caramel sauce orrrrrrr, {and seriously no judgements here} you can use caramel ice cream sauce/syrup. Now just because they’re mini that doesn’t mean you can eat eleven and still feel good about it… Oh wait. Yes it does. It absolutely means you can eat eleven and feel really good about it. Trust me, I’m speaking from experience.
