Easy Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake

Here is a recipe and some photos of a chocolate swirl cheesecake i made the other day. Its a bit simpler than your standard cheesecake recipe. It also doesn't require the use of a springform pan which is typically necessary for cheesecake making. So if your looking for a fairly simple dessert and you love chocolate, i would definitely give this recipe a shot.

Easy Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake 
Ingredients:
1 8oz package cream cheese
1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
2 tbsp lemon juice 
1 tbsp vanilla extract 
1 egg
1/3 cup chocolate chips, melted 
1 chocolate pie crust 


Directions:
1. Beat cream cheese until fluffy. Then gradually beat in the sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice and vanilla. Add egg and beat just to combine. 
2. Pour about half the cheesecake mix into the crust.
3. Then melt your chocolate chips, and add about 1/2 cup of the cheesecake mixture to the chocolate and fold together. 
4. Pour the mixture over the cheesecake 
5. Then pour the remaining plain cheese cake mixture on top, then with a butter knife swirl the cheesecake. 
6. Bake at 300F for 50-55 minutes. Then remove from oven and let cool on wire rack for 1 hour.
7. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours. However is best served after it has been chilled overnight. 





And heres a final photo, and before i knew it the whole thing was gone! 

Sorry i haven't been updating too often lately, but i would like to point out the amazon application i added to my blog. Amazon is personally one of my favorite sites, and its great for baking supplies. So this will show you the latest deals on baking stuff. Hope you enjoy!

peanut butter chocolate chip cookies

This is a great peanut butter cookie recipe from good housekeeping cookbook that i jazzed up a bit by adding some chocolate chips, and some other various adjustments. These would be a great treat to take along to any parties for memorial day weekend. There simple, but definitely a crowd pleaser.

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup creamy peanut butter

2/3 cup honey

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter; softened

2 eggs

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 cup chocolate chips (more of less depending on how much you like chocolate)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350F, Then cream together the butter and sugar, add peanut butter, eggs, honey, and vanilla mix until combined. (make sure to scrape the bowl with a spatula, to ensure incorporation of all ingredients) Then add in the flour and baking powder, mixing until just combined. Then mix in chocolate chips.

2. Shape cookies into 1-inch balls and place 3-inches apart on cookie sheet (i like to line mine with parchment paper, that way the cookies just slide off, and clean-ups a breeze).

3. Flatten each cookie a bit with hand (or the back of a measuring cup works good; just have a little flour on it though if it begins to stick).

4. Bake 10 minutes (or until edges are lightly browned); rotating halfway through.

Heres the cookie balls before i flattened them (i forgot to take a pic after i flattened them)

And here they are after being baked

And just before there about to be devoured.....

......enjoy :))

long day

Today just seems to keep dragging along, i hate days like this. Well today i sat by central park for a while, picked up a few things from the store, and then worked on jazzing up the blog. The background i got off a website as you can see from their add at the bottom of the page. (i hate when things do that) but oh well i liked the background so ill live with it. I however really didn't like the header they had with it, so i decided to make that. Thats pretty much it for my day, very boring. So now i'm posting some pictures of some chocolate work from school. One is a chocolate box filled with Vahlrona Manjari chocolate truffles. The other is a chocolate candy stand (the candy is under the dome of the sun). As you can see i have a thing for space. Well thats all for today.