Mini Cheesecake

I've had this little song stuck in my head for a really long time and figured the best way to get it out was to share it with you. I know it's cheesy but here it is...

Grace the Baker!
Can she bake it?
Grace the Baker!
Yes she Can!

For those of you who don't know, it goes along with the "Bob the Builder" theme song.  That used to be one of my favorite shows when I was little! Alright now that the song is out of my head let's bake!

The Ingredients

Got Milk?

If you're going to crack the egg one-handed, make sure not to drop the eggshells....or you could just edit it out. =)

A teaspoon of VANILLA will make it all better,
not sugar Mary Poppins. (facepalm)

I am going to make a strawberry cupcake, for better or for worse!

I love all of my creations!

The new phenomenona - Cupcake Glasses!
Going once, going twice, eh... they've gone extinct.

Adapted from Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook - "Cheesecake Supreme."

Ingredients:

1 box of Nilla wafers (11oz.)

48 cupcake liners

1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

3 8-oz. packages cream cheese, softened

1 cup of sugar

2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour

1 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

1 egg yolk

1 container of strawberry or raspberry yogurt (optional)

1/2 cup of mini chocolate chips (optional)

Directions:

1. In a large mixing bowl combine cream cheese, sugar, flour, and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer till fluffy. Add eggs and yolk all at once, beating on low speed till just combined. Stir in milk.

2. (Optional) In a separate bowl pour desired amount of batter into bowl. Add your desired ingredient (yogurt, chocolate chips, Oreo crumbs etc.) and mix in. Pour into cupcake liner and bake.

3. Place batter in cupcake tins, filling almost to the top. Bake at 375 degrees for 12-15 minutes, or until tops are golden. Garnish with fruit, or chocolate syrup.

There are lots of easier versions of this recipe, but I just found my favorite cheesecake recipe and modified it a bit, so I guess that means this is my first adaptation! In the past I've tried modifying recipes a bit, but they didn't really turn out very well... like my cinnamon eggs. But thankfully the changes and additions I made this time around worked out deliciously. You see, anything I make I eat, whether it tastes good or not. 

GB2- God Bless, Go Bake!!! 

Black Bottoms

We ran out of cupcake liners, so my Mom 
dug through the Christmas box and found these.

      This was the very first recipe that I got from a magazine and actually made. I was so proud as I pulled it out of the oven and presented to my family a warm, gooey, chocolaty cupcake. The only problem was only 4/5 of the people in my family ate it... someday I'm gonna take Luke to a science lab and get his taste buds redone because he doesn't know what he's missing out on!!! Oh well, for now I will keep making recipes even if my brother doesn't decide to eat them. =)

The Ingredients

Time to multitask!  Photographing, stirring, and dumping the chocolate - ALL AT ONCE!

My cupcakes are ALWAYS half full, never half empty. =)

 I have very disobedient cream cheese. I tell it to spread out and it just plops.

The only obedient one.

Ta Daaa!!!

     I found this when I was looking through one of my Mom's old Woman's Day magazines for a school project. The recipe can be found here.
   
WARNING: This does not contain anything of value to your physical health! I wish I could take credit for that "warning" but I got it from this blog. =)

GB2- God Bless, Go BAKE!!!

Cookies and Cream Cheesecakes

Happy Birthday OREOs!!!! 1912 - 2012

The first time I had "Cookies and Cream Cheesecake" was on my 13th birthday when I had just returned from a LONG birthday plane ride from the Philippines and experienced an even LONGER birthday! My birthday lasted for 40 hours that year! (I tried to enter this as the longest birthday ever in the Guinness World Records, but I think a lady in Egypt beat me. =/ ) Anyway, my Mom had them waiting for me when I returned home.

I've always loved this recipe and decided to make it for the Oasisians (Oasis College group at West Valley)!  
I hope they liked it!!!

I love this picture!! You are all welcome to review my stuff anytime, just as long as the thumbs stay up. =)

Don't worry readers, the cupcakes are not that hard. =)

This recipe was given to us by our good family friend

Mrs. Joanne Johnson.

The Ingredients

Place 1 perfect Oreo inside of the cupcake tin.

My waterfall of sugar, and a teaspoon is NOT enough Mary Poppins!!!!!!!!

Make sure to crush Oreos with a PLASTIC cup, not a glass one like I did.
(I about gave my mother a heart attack.)

Try not to eat the batter. =)

This recipe makes about 3 dozen cupcakes.

Ta Daaa

Don't worry, it's wet because it's moist not because of my saliva... hmm well maybe it's half and half. =)))

Cookies and Cream Cheesecakes

Ingredients:

• 42 Oreos, 30 left whole and 12 coarsely chopped/ or pounded with a plastic cup by hand.
• 2 pounds cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 3 large eggs, room temperature, lightly beaten
• 1 cup sour cream
• pinch of salt

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 275F. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners.  Place 1 whole cookie in the bottom of each lined cup.
2. With an electric mixer on med-high speed, beat cream cheese until smooth, scraping down sides of bowl as needed.  Gradually add sugar, and beat until combined.  Beat in vanilla
3. Drizzle in eggs, a bit at a time, beating to combine and scraping down sides of bowl as needed.  Beat in sour cream and salt.  Stir in chopped cookies by hand.
4. Divide batter evenly among cookie-filled cups, filling each almost to the top.  Bake, rotating tins halfway through, until filling is set, about 22 minutes.  Transfer tins to wire racks to cool completely.  Refrigerate (in tins) at least 4 hours (or up to overnight).  Remove from tins just before serving.



If you really like Oreos, you could put a second one on top and make an Oreo Cheesecake whoopie pie!!!

These are much better when they come directly out of the refrigerator. The colder the better. You could even freeze them if you want.

I hope you like this recipe and didn't get all freaked out because of the half eaten cookie picture. Stay tuned for the Vanilla Wafer version of this recipe with fruit on top, which will be posted sometime soon.

GB2- God Bless- GO BAKE!!!

(I'm always looking for new recipes to make so if anyone has a recipe that's easy, simple, and yummy please post it so I can try to make it and put it on the blog.  Don't worry, I'll give  credit where credit is due. ; )  )