Quick and easy Peanut Butter Blossoms

Some of you may recognize the cookie part to be the same as these peanut butter cookies. However this recipe was sent to me from my Aunt and has a little twist from the other cookie. I made mine a little bigger so only got 27 cookies. Easy and so fun. Hope you enjoy!

Ingredients:
1 egg, beaten
1 cup granulated sugar.
1 cup peanut butter, smooth or chunky
1 bag Hershey Kisses

Directions: 
Preheat oven to 350
(Unwrap enough kisses for expected number of cookies.)

Mix the sugar into the beaten egg. Mix well to dissolve sugar. Fold in
peanut butter.
Egg mixture consistency is moist and sticky but will dry in folding process.

Place in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Remove from refrigerator and pull off small pieces of dough and roll into
marble size balls.
Place the peanut butter balls on dry cookie sheet.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
Remove from oven and immediately add kisses by pushing a kiss gently into
center of cookie.
See below!

Different Alterations
If using dark chocolate kisses, gently push into cookie and let stand if you
want them to hold their shape.
If you want them to puddle, and have just the tip, put into oven for 10
seconds.
Dark Chocolate melts quickly and will not stand up in oven heat.

If using milk chocolate kisses, place a Kiss on top of each cookie.
Push them in slightly.  Place back in oven for 15 to 20 seconds so kiss
adheres to the cookie.
Remove from oven and let cool completely on wire rack, or after cooling
slightly, place on plate and place in refrigerator to cool and harden
chocolate.  Milk chocolate Hershey kisses will keep their shape.

(OR for plain PB cookies, Flatten unbaked dough with criss cross pattern
with fork dipped repeatedly into small cup of granulated sugar While on
cookie sheet and before baking)
Makes 45 small cookies 

JoAnne's Hot Fudge Brownie Cheesecake

So this is a rich and very yummy cheesecake. It is also huge. But what can we say we love it and can only enjoy it on rare occasions since it really fattening. You can cut back on fat by using a lower fat cream cheese. I usually do half regular fat and half fat free. It just makes me feel better. So please enjoy it is fabulous!

Ingredients

1 brownie mix
5 pkg cream cheese (8 ounces)
1 3/4 c. sugar
3 tbsp. flour
2 tbsp. vanilla
5 eggs
2 egg yolks
1 pt. heavy cream

Directions

Bake and cool brownie mix, as directed. A less dry fudge-like mix works best. Line the bottom and sides of 10-inch spring form pan with brownies. Combine cheese, sugar, flour and vanilla. Mix until smooth. Add eggs one at a time, mixing VERY slowly. Blend in cream by hand. Use only 1 oven rack at lowest level. Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Bake 10 or 12 minutes or until set. Then reduce heat to 250 degrees and bake 1 hour. Cover with foil, if browning occurs. Turn off oven, keep door closed for 15 minutes. Then remove and cool on rack. Cool and drizzle hot fudge sauce. Refrigerate.

Upside-Down Hot Chocolate

OK as strange as this might sound it was very yummy. I found the recipe online at with the Fox 13 recipes. You know the ones they do during the afternoon news hour. It was very easy and lots of fun. My family and I thoroughly enjoyed it. So I thought that I would share. Well I also just used some white chocolate chips and it still turned out well. On the picture I used a small mason jar simply so that you could see how it looks. Enjoy!

White Hot Chocolate:
1 cup heavy cream
4 cups half and half
1 cup white chocolate, chopped (use a good quality)
1 tsp. vanilla

Combine white chocolate and heavy cream in a sauce pan and cook over medium heat.

Stir continuously until white chocolate has completely melted.

Stir in half and half, and vanilla.

Continue cooking until heated through.

Pour into cups and top with chocolate whipped cream and garnish with chocolate shavings and a Pirouette cookie!

Chocolate Whipped Cream
1/2 cup of heavy cream
1/4 cup of sugar
2 Tbs. or two squirts of chocolate syrup

In a mixing bowl beat cream until it starts to hold its shape, then add sugar and chocolate syrup.

Continue mixing until all ingredients are combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.