Bring chilled ingredients to room temperature before making this recipe. This is especially important with cream cheese, to ensure you have a silky smooth chocolate cheesecake filling at the end!
You can swap out the Oreo biscuits in the base for digestives if you wish. I love the additional rich chocolate flavour from Oreos, so this is my recommendation.
When mixing together the cream cheese and condensed milk, first loosen the cream cheese with a spatula. Cream cheese can be temperamental, so softening before mixing with other ingredients will help keep everyone happy!
Add a couple of generous spoonfuls of the cream cheese mixture to the melted chocolate and beat through before mixing them both together. This helps the chocolate mix thoroughly with the cream cheese and not seize up and form smaller chocolate chunks in the cheesecake.
Pat the strawberries dry, both on the outside and on the cut side, before using them. Any additional moisture from the fruit will leak into the cheesecake and just create an oozy mess. Best avoid that one!
You could try substituting strawberries for another fruit in these mini chocolate cheesecakes. Raspberries would work especially well, as would blueberries or a mix of all three! Be careful not to overload the middle with fruit however, or the cheesecake will not be able to hold together very well.