Monday, May 13, 2013

Cooking Day!!

So today was another cooking day.
For lunch I made a croque-monsieur (grilled ham and cheese sandwich) and for dinner I made chicken quesadillas. I thawed the chicken, cut it up, put it in a skillet with Italian dressing, and then stuck it in a tortilla shell with cheese. Bam! Easy meals.

After that, I made Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Cupcakes. Chances are, you have a lot of these ingredients just sitting around in your kitchen! I made 2 dozen cupcakes and an actual cheesecake with the mix. And one container of oreos is not enough! I forgot to count that before leaving the store, but luckily I had some golden oreos in my pantry so I mixed the vanilla oreos in the batter as well.

Ingredients:

42 cream-filled sandwich cookies, such as Oreos, 30 left whole, and 12 coarsely chopped
2 pounds (4 8-oz packages) cream cheese, room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 large eggs, room temperature, lightly beaten
1 cup sour cream
Pinch of salt

Directions:

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

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