Mini Cheesecakes!

Desserts

Look at how cute these mini cheesecakes are! They are the perfect light dessert in the right size. I made these for my coworker’s birthday since she loves cheesecake. When making treats for work I always try to make something that’s easy to grab.

To make these you will need

• Muffin tin

• Cupcake liners

• 1 pound or 16 ounces of cream cheese (I used reduced fat cream cheese)

• ¾ cup of sugar

• 2 eggs

• 1 tablespoon of lemon juice

• 1 teaspoon of vanilla

• Vanilla Wafers (I used reduced fat ones)

First you want to preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Then you will mix the cream cheese, sugar, eggs, lemon juice, and vanilla in the bowl for around 5 minutes. Since I used my kitchenaid I put the cupcake liners in the muffin tin while the batter was mixing. Put a vanilla wafer on the bottom of each cupcake liner. Put 1 spoonful of batter in each cupcake liner. Bake the batter for about 15 minutes or until the batter is set. Once the mini cheesecakes are out of the oven and cooled, refrigerate them until being severed!

Fat Tuesday

Desserts

For Fat Tuesday I wanted to be reminded of my honeymoon in New Orleans. So I decided to make beignets. I’ve never fired anything before so I thought I would try baking them. Half of them were baked with the hopes that they would puff up. That didn’t happen. Since the baked ones were already hard, I tested frying on them. I fired the rest of the beignets and got some pretty good ones! They work best if you stick closely to the 1/8 inch thickness.

Food Day

Desserts

Three of My Favorite Words: Office Food Day.

For birthdays we go all out and do treat tables. For this food day we are celebrating two birthdays, including my amazing boss’s birthday!

My boss is doing weight watchers, so I’m making these weight watcher friendly chocolate peanut butter balls but am being a bit extra and making them look like cats. I got the receipt from here https://www.wwsmartpointsrecipes.xyz/2016/02/peanut-butter-balls-smartpoints-2_26.html off of Pintrest. As you can see the piping bag ripped due to the white chocolate being too hot so there was only a few with cat whiskers.

I usually make cupcakes but my coworker requested orange cranberry muffins. Since I was on a time crunch I used Krusteaz’s mix.