Twix Cheesecakes!!

Yum yum yum!! These Twix Cheesecakes are to die for & I can't wait to add different candies to them to see how those taste. The recipe is straight forward and makes about 15, but you have to chill these overnight so if you are making them to take somewhere, make them the night before....ENJOY!

Oh yeah, sorry the picture isn't the best!

Ingredients (Crust):

1/2 package Oreos-about 20

1 Tbsp. Sugar

1/4 cup Unsalted Butter; melted

(Cheesecake Batter)

1 lb. Cream Cheese; softened

1/2 cup Sugar

1/2 tsp. Vanilla Extract

2 large Eggs; lightly beaten

1/2 cup Sour Cream

12 mini Twix bars; chopped into small pieces

What To Do:

1. Preheat oven to 275F
2. In a food processor, grind up the Oreos into fine crumbs
3. Put the crumbs into a large bowl and add in the 1 Tbsp. sugar
4. Pour in the melted butter and mix to coat all of the crumbs w/ butter
5. Line a cupcake pan with liners
6. Scoop a Tbsp. of the cookie crumbs into each cupcake liner
7. Press the crumbs down firmly using your hand
8. In another bowl, mix the cream cheese until smooth with a hand mixer (low speed)
9. With the mixer on medium-low speed, add in the 1/2 cup sugar and mix
10. Then add in the vanilla extract and mix
11. Slowly pour in the lightly beaten eggs and mix well
12. Add in the sour cream and mix
13. Chop the mini Twix bars into small pieces
14. Add them into the batter and gently mix
15. Using an ice cream scooper, scoop the cheesecake batter into each cupcake liner
16. Bake for 30 minutes on 275F
17. Chill the cheesecake overnight in the fridge (I wanted to eat one so bad at this point)

Vegetable Soup (Cabbage Soup Diet)

Good Morning Everyone!! Sorry that it has been awhile since I last did a post.

A neighbor of ours was telling me about this really good soup, but that it was part of a diet/cleanse. She has completed it twice now and has maintained her weight in the past 6 months. After seeing the recipe, I decided...why not try it! I had a picture, but I accidently deleted it. Sorry, no picture for this post. This soup is definitely going to be a keeper for me just to make when soup sounds good! Below is the receipe, but then I also posted what the 7 Day Diet/Cleanse consisted of.

Ingredients:

6 large green onions

2 green peppers

 2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole) or 2 cans of Rotel

3 carrots

1 container (10 oz. or so) mushrooms

1 bunch of celery

half a head of cabbage

1 package spice only soup mix (It said it was okay if I used a different spice mix so I bought a beef stew season mix-made it taste so good!)

2 cubes of bouillon

1 48oz can Low Sodium V8 juice 

Season to taste with pepper, parsley, curry, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, etc. (Little to NO SALT!)

Directions:

1. Slice green onions, put in a pot on medium heat and start to sauté with cooking spray. Do this until the onions are whiter/clearer in color (about 4-6 minutes).
2. Cut green pepper stem end off, then cut pepper in half to take out the seeds and membrane. Cut the green pepper into bite size pieces and add to pot.
3. Take the outer leafs layers off the cabbage, cut into bite size pieces, add to pot.
4. Clean carrots, mushrooms, and celery, cut into bite size pieces and toss them in. Add tomatoes now, too.
5. If you would like a spicy soup, add a small amount of curry or cayenne pepper now.
6. For seasonings, you can use a spice packet of your choice and use beef  bouillon cubes (make sure not to add much salt, if any at all).
7. Use about 8 cups of water and the 48 oz of Low Sodium V8 juice, cover and put heat on low. Let soup simmer for a long time – about 2 hours or until vegetables are tender. **(I didn't let mine simmer for 2 hours because I still like my veggies with a little bit of crunch to them!)

*Helpful Hints*

• Make sure to take a multi-vitamin every day
• Drink plenty of water
• The more soup you eat, the more you will lose

7 Day Diet/Cleanse

Day One:

Fruit: Eat all of the fruit you want (except bananas). Eat only your soup and the fruit for the first day. For drinks- unsweetened teas, cranberry juice and water.

Day Two:

Vegetables: Eat until you are stuffed will all fresh, raw or cooked vegetables of your choice. Try to eat leafy green vegetables and stay away from dry beans, peas and corn. Eat all the vegetables you want along with your soup. At dinner, reward yourself with a big baked potato with butter. Do not eat fruit today.

Day Three:

Mix Days One and Two: Eat all the soup, fruits and vegetables you want. No Baked Potato.

Day Four:

Bananas and Skim Milk: Eat as many as eight bananas and drink as many glasses of skim milk as you would like on this day, along with your soup. This day is supposed to lessen your desire for sweets.

Day Five:

Beef And Tomatoes: Ten to twenty ounces of beef and up to six fresh tomatoes. Drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water this day to wash the uric acid from your body. Eat your soup at least once this day. You may eat broiled or baked chicken instead of beef (but absolutely no skin-on chicken). If you prefer, you can substitute broiled fish for beef on one of the beef days (but not both).

Day Six:

Beef and Vegetables: Eat to your heart’s content of beef and vegetables this day. You can even have 2 or 3 steaks if you like, with leafy green vegetables. No Baked Potato. Eat your soup at least once.

Day Seven:

Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices and vegetables: Again stuff, stuff, stuff yourself. Be sure to eat your soup at least once this day.