Apple Pie, Oh My!

Spring Break 2011: New car (BRAND NEW, like woah this is a huge step for me, RIP Snapper!)+lots of homework+Hockinson Hills+hungry family=homemade apple pie YUM! Sorry but I won't even attempt to give you a recipe for this because this is yet another case of me not following a recipe. In all honesty it came out tasting a little floured down to me, but you betta believe that it's gone completely post 20 minutes out of the oven!

Unbaked Pie; looks better

Apple Pie Baked

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake FIGHT!

Ok so in lou of the fact that anxiety week is partially over, I have a few dollas to my name, and a chocolate craving that must have been caused by the DEVIL..I decided to make some Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake bars for an after dinner dessert. Ummm can you say YUM people YUM. I really really like cheesecake. So for this adventure:

Crust Ingredients:
1 stick of melted butter
1-1 and 1/2 cups flour
1/3 cup granulated white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
Basically mix the flour, sugar and salt together well, add butter and you should have a dough-like clump after mixing/hand kneading well. Press mixture onto the bottom of a 9 inch round spring form pan and bake in a pre-heated 350 degree oven for 8 minutes. Put into the refrigerator to cool while you perform subsequent steps...

I scoured the bottom of the crust with a fork before baking it!

Cookie Dough Ingredients:
1 cup of brown sugar
2/3 stick of melted butter
1 and 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 cup chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup of flour
Mix brown sugar with melted butter in a medium sized mixing bowl. Mix in vanilla, salt, flour and then chocolate chips. Refrigerate cookie dough until cheesecake mixture is complete!

Cookie Dough guiltiest pleasure

Cheesecake Ingredients:
2 8oz. packages of cream cheese
3/4 cups granulated white sugar
1/2 cup almond milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 cup flour
2 eggs

Mix cream cheese until well-whipped with a hand mixer [or if you have a bomb.com roommate like Kiah a kitchen aide!]... mix in sugar and then almond milk. Add vanilla, mix, and then beat in eggs on low speed one at a time, add flour.

To assemble pour cheesecake mixture and spread evenly with a spatula on top of the crust mixture in the spring form pan. Add 1 inch thick mounds of cookie dough mixture in a uniform manner around the pan and re-even the top with spatula. Bake for about 30-40 minutes or until done in 350 degree oven. Refrigerate until completely cool and EAT umm like a cookie monsta!

So they turned out more like an actual cheesecake...no sadness to me over here. Cheesecake alsdkfjasdlkfj!

Cheesecake fights are the funnest

True to the Marion family name: Draedel at his finest, workin on those hips

Growing Up Blues

Results in what: serious anxiety. Formula to decrease or balance:
1)  Seriously good tunes...new favorite I'm a lady by Santogold...yeah it's probably one of those overplayed on the radio tunes but when you don't have a radio...
2) Dancing
3) Good old time favorite Smitten Kitchen Recipe
4) Favorite past time background motion picture

I know I know Mr. camera phone isn't cutting it for me either

 Chocolate Chip Banana Blondies:
 2 eggs
2 sticks of butter (yuck I know)
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups of flour
1-2 bananas
1 and 1/2 cups melted chocolate chips
-9 inch round or square pan
So mix all your wet ingredients together thoroughly and then add your dry ingredients a little at a time mixing in between each addition. Mash up the nanner's and add chocolate chips (you can melt these and swirl like I did if you want a marbled technique!!!). Mix these into the batch. Bake at 350 degrees for about 30-40 minutes or until done. And walla you will have the latest addiction. Gosh I love to bake.