Cheesecake

Did you notice yet that I love dessert? I haven't been the best about posting my dinner recipes on here because of two reasons...sometimes I think why share such a simple recipe and then another reason is I forget to take a picture and the dinner is gone. So in the future you may see some stock photos if I got the recipe from an online cookbook. This is a mixture of a few recipes for cheesecake. I like to keep my cheesecake as simple as possible so as to not interfere with the goodness I call cheesecake.

1 premade graham cracker crust
2 pkg. (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
little bit of cinnamon sugar

Unwrap your graham cracker crust and dust it lightly with the cinnamon sugar. Set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time; mix just until blended. You may want to add a little lemon zest to your cream cheese mixture to give it a unique flavor. Pour cream cheese mixture into crust and bake for 40 minutes or until center is almost set. Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight.

Peanut Butter Bars

Remember in school (back when they allowed us to have desserts) the yummy donuts, the delicous peanut butter bars...aww that sounds great! I got this recipe from the old Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. Everytime I make them they disappear quickly. I am making them today for my husband's family dinner. I always make a double batch when I visit them because everyone wants to have more than one! Here is the recipe...


Peanut Butter Bars

1 c flour
1 c quick rolled oats
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 c butter
1/2 c sugar
1/2 c packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/3 c peanut butter
1/4 c milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 c chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugars together. Add egg, peanut butter, milk, and vanilla and mix well. Combine flour, oats, and baking soda and then add to butter mixture. Mix until incorporated. Spray cooking dish and pour mixture onto dish. Bake in oven for 18-20 minutes. Immediately after removing from oven pour chocolate chips on top and return to oven for one minute. Spread melted chocolate over top of bars. For an extra touch you can make this frosting to drizzle over the top of the bars. Mix 1/4 c powdered sugar, 2 Tbsp peanut butter, and 2-3 Tbsp milk.

These are yummy anytime of the year and anytime of the day! Enjoy!

A Place to Start

Well...It's hard to find a place to start so I'm starting with this. The purpose of this blog is to share with family and friends recipes that I have tried and loved. These recipes have been passed to me by many people and I will usually say where the recipe came from (if I know). I hope that you will try some of these recipes and use them regularly for yourself and your family. Most of my posts will be accompanied by a picture so that you can see what it is I'm serving up!