dessert

My Low-carb Cheesecake Recipe

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Here is my recipe for my low-carb (no-sugar) Cheesecake.  Several people have asked me to make this for their birthday.

Ingredients:

Crust:

1 Cup Chopped Walnuts

1 Cup Splenda for Baking

2 tablespoons Ground Cinnamon

Filling:

5 pkg. (8 oz. each) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened

1 pint Sour Cream

5 eggs at room temperature (3 whole eggs and 2 egg yokes)

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1 Cup Splenda for Baking

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Spray the springform pan with cooking spray.  I like Pam from Baking.

Mixed the Walnuts, Splenda, and Cinnamon together and pour into the springform pan.  Gently shake pan to level the crust ingredients.

Place the Cream Cheese and vanilla into a mixing bowl and beat on medium speed until it is combined.  Add the 1 cup of Splenda to the mixture and beat on medium speed until it is combined.  Beat in one egg at a time to the mixture, until all three eggs and two egg yokes are added.  Make sure you are scraping the sides of the bowl while adding everything to make the filing.

Add one pint of Sour Cream to the mixture and beat on low speed until sour cream is blended into the filing.

Pour filing into springform pan over the top of the crust.  Make sure the filing is level inside with pan.

Bake until the Cheesecake appears to be firm and set on the outer 2″ rim of the cake.  The center of the cake will still appear to be soft.   The baking time is approximately 1 hour – check cake after 40 minutes and then every 10 minutes.  Do not stick a toothpick or knife into the cake to check for doneness.

Let cool and refrigerate it.

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There are some people that can’t wait to eat it and eat it warm.

Rice Krispy Train

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Today’s project was to make a Rice Krispy Train. Someone in the household needed a snack for work, so I came up with this idea.

Step One: Buy a Nordic Ware Train pan and wait for Amazon to deliver said pan.

Step Two:  Buy the Rice Krispy, Marshmallows, M&Ms, chocolate, spray icing.

Step Threes:  Unpack the box from Amazon and say “So, pretty!  Yay!”  Wash the pan.

Step Four:  Wait until Wednesday, so the “someone” can bring it to work on Thursday.

Step Five:  Make the Rice Krispy Treat mixture and spray the pan with pam.  Stuff the Rice Krispy treat mixture into the pan.

Step Six:  Make more Rice Krispy Treat mixture, because the first batch did not fill up the pan.

Step Seven:  Fill the pan with mixture and use the left over to make ground.

Step Eight:  Go to Walmart to buy more decorations because now you have ground.

Step Nine: Buy green candy melt and licorice.

Step Ten:  Cut licorice, melt green candy melt, pour over ground, and spread out.  Wait, ground is not smooth.  Make little slashes in candy melt to make it look like grass.  Put licorice on candy melt so it looks like railroad tracks.  That candy melt dried quickly.

Step Eleven:  Microwave first batch of chocolate (dark chocolate) and spoon over Rice Krispy Train cars.  That chocolate is drying fast.  This is as much fun and pouring paint over canvases.

Step Twelve:  Microwave second batch of chocolate (milk chocolate) and spoon over Rice Krispy Train cars.  This chocolate is not drying.  Time to wait to see if chocolate dries.

Step Thirteen:  Put wheels on train.  (The M&M that were sprayed with Silver Icing – oh, that was done around step five.)  The milk chocolate cars have not dried – put wheels on those trains cars first.

Step Fourteen: Put remaining decoration on dried train cars, and place on train track.

Step Fifteen:  Talk to the cable repairman, wait while his fixes the cable.

Step Sixteen:  Yay!  The other cars are dry.  Place on train track.

Step Seventeen:  Take pictures.

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The Rice Krispy recipe is on the back of boxes of Rice Krispy and the Marshmallows bags.

The melting instructions for the candy melt and chocolate are on the back of the bag/container.

Not the best train in the world. If you want to see a nice train, click here.