Happy, sunny, lovely temps Tuesday!
What a great day it would be to be spending it outside, where the sun is shining, the weather is fantabulous, and I could get a little color on my skin. But, instead, I have the privilege of {sitting inside, in a library, in a small room, with no windows to see the real outside}assisting students (today they are sophomores) with making their college dreams a reality. I do love doing this. But when the weather is just lovely out, I really makes me want to be back at the farm! {Don't worry, I am working on this post when no students are present.}
Anyway, on with the post....
Sunday after playing with 22 babies in the nursery and then attending the next service, I headed to Aldi's to do some quick shopping before I headed back the other direction towards home. What was I going after? Cheesecake and cupcake ingredients.
As I left Aldi, I walked out of there 12 blocks of cream cheese, 2 white cake mixes, 2 vanilla puddings, 2 orange jellos, and some other things 'richer'.
I have grand plans for the cake mix, pudding, and jello. Maybe I'll get to make them this afternoon.
What I did make, was a blueberry swirl {white chocolate} cheesecake and a peanut butter cup cheesecake. Both of these were requests for birthdays present and past.
The blueberry swirl {white chocolate} cheesecake was a first for me making this one. It tasted delicious! I need to find a better way to incorporate white chocolate than trying shave a white chocolate bar. Too much work when running short on time! I'm thinking mini white chocolate chips would be pretty tasty in that recipe.
When the blueberry cheesecake was completed, I whipped up the filling for the peanut butter cup cheesecake. I put it in the oven. Then forgot about it.....literally! I was hanging out at my friend/neighbor/rodeo watchin' buddy Amy's place. Somewhere well over an hour and a half to 2 hours later, I remembered I had a cheesecake in the oven, then took off running up the stairs. I was scared for what I was going to find.
Low and behold, it wasn't all the bad. Yes, the top and sides were well done, but I was able to cut off the really bad parts. I wasn't too worried about the top, since I was going to put chocolate ganache on top of it.
When I delivered that cheesecake Monday afternoon, after taking it with me to work to keep cold and not being able to eat a piece of it, I informed Christy that it might not meet her expectations....and to not get her hopes up. But....I was more than pleased to receive a text from her that said 'Cheesecake is a huge hit!'. That just calmed my fears of my failures.
Monday while at work, I made the decision that I NEED to get myself a timer. I can't have that happen again. Next time, I might not be so lucky!
I went online to Amazon.com, and found myself this cute little KitchenAid red timer. I figured, since my mixer is red, I might as well get a red timer!
If you haven't heard about SwagBucks yet, please let me know! I 'bought' this timer with 4 Amazon $5 gift cards I earned through SwagBucks. I knew I had $20 in Amazon.com gift cards waiting to be used. What I didn't realize, I also had another $10 in Amazon.com gift cards sitting there, still not used! What? How could I forget?! It was a nice surprise. To top off getting a free KitchenAid timer, I still have about $10 left in Amazon.com gift cards! Wahoo!!
Hope you all are enjoying this lovely weather as well!
1 comment:
Yes, the cheesecake was indeed delicious. Thanks again!!! Everyone at Connection Group was SO impressed that you made it from scratch. And I am not yet a swagbucks user, but I think I should get into it, sounds like a fantastic deal!
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