First things first….let’s start with this fabulous cheesecake….i just
can.not.
wait.
any.
longer.
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 3 tablespoons butter melted
- 2 T sugar
- 4 packages of cream cheese softened…i used two regular and two reduced fat
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 T flour
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 cup Baileys Irish Cream Liquor
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup light sour cream
- 3-4 T strawberry preserves
- strawberries for garnishing
Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Stir together first 3 ingredients and pour into a 9 inch round pan…the recipe calls for a spring pan…i don’t have a spring pan so i just used a round pan…press into the pan to create a crust and cook for 10 min and let cool
reduce heat to 300 degrees
beat cream cheese, one cup of sugar and 3 tablespoons of flour with an electric mixer until combined and creamy. gradually add vanilla and irish cream and mix just until blended…add 1 egg at a time and cream until blended…add 3/4 cup sour cream and mix until blended
pour half of batter into graham crust and then drop tablespoons of strawberry jelly onto the batter and swirl around with a spoon…spreading it over the batter
bake at 300 for 55 minutes and then turn the oven off and let cheesecake sit in oven for 15 min…remove from oven and run a knife around the edges gently to loosen…cool completely…the recipe i followed here, wanted me to chill for 8 hours…(i had 3 hours before serving friends at dinner….) so i stuck it in the freezer and wished for the best….when we were ready to for it, i gently flipped it onto my cake stand and threw on some whipped cream and fresh strawberries….
what a great weekend we had…..we celebrated Gracie’s “Very Merry Un-Birthday” to kick it off on friday….we’ve never done this before and we just thought it would be a fun reason to celebrate, so we just went ahead and did it….i highly recommend doing it….it made her feel so special ….we bought balloons and i made a huge sign for the front door so she would see it on her way home from school, then we took her to toys r us and out to dinner. when we got home she decided to put her scooters from last year out on the curb for some other little boy or girl to use…and she was so excited when they both found a new home within an hour….LOVE HER!
I worked all day Saturday on tree signs for our backyard tree stump…we had a walnut tree removed a few years ago and were left with an ugly boring stump right in the middle of our fence posts…and i knew i always wanted to do something with it but just never decided what…so i gathered scrap wood and made fun signs to hang on it….
what you will need:
- drop cloth
- sponge brushes
- acrylic paint, white for base coat, black for letters and what ever other colors you’d like to use
- scrap pieces of wood
- a cute saying
- polyurethane sealer (the same one i used for my rainbow steps here)
- screws to put into the tree
directions
prime your boards using a sponge brush with white base coat and let dry completely, smear color on top of each piece…not perfectly…just swipe it on and allow to dry completely, paint on your words with black paint and let dry, screw into the tree stump and spray with polyurethane…i applied one coat last night and will apply another today (maybe even two!) easy, simple and such a fun way to spruce up an old boring stump
easy, simple and such a fun way to spruce up an old boring stump
