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Sour Cream Cheese Cake!!


Ingredients:

16 oz. sour cream
8 oz. cream cheese
¼ cup corn starch
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup sugar
Zest of 1 lemon
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tsp. vanilla
3 eggs

In a mixing bowl combine the corn starch, baking powder and sugar. Add the sour cream, cream cheese, eggs, lemon juice, lemon zest and vanilla and mix well.

Crumb Crust:

1 ½ cups fine crumbs – such as vanilla cookies or graham crackers
6 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons brown sugar

Preheat Oven 350 degrees:

Melt butter over low heat. Remove from heat and add the fine crumbs and sugar and blend well. Place the crumb mixture in a pie plate and press down to form.

Bake in oven for about 8 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool a few minutes before adding the batter.

When the pie crust is cooled for a few minutes add the batter.

Bake for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick test comes out clean.

Cool before serving.

This is a light a fluffy cheesecake and very delicious.

With Love,
Catherine
xo

Yam & Sour Cream Pie!!!


Ingredients:

3 cups cooked sweet potato – about 5 yams
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
Dashes of cinnamon
Dashes of cloves
Dashes of nutmeg
Dashes of ginger
1 tsp. vanilla
1 ½ cups sour cream
¼ cup milk
4 chocolate coated cookies – for crumbled topping

Preheat Oven 350 degrees:

Rinse yams. Bake in oven with skin on until soft and skin is wrinkled. Let cool and remove skin.

In a mixing bowl combine the eggs and yams. Add the sugar and spices and mix well. Add the milk, sour cream and vanilla and once again mix well.

Honey Nut Cheerio Crumb Crust!!!

1 ½ cups fine crumbs 
6 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons brown sugar

Preheat Oven 350 degrees:

Place honey nut cheerios in food processor, until fine.

Melt butter over low heat. Remove from heat and add the cheerios and sugar and blend well. Place the crumb mixture in a pie plate and press down to form.

Place in oven for about 8 minutes.

Remove from oven and let cool for a few minutes before adding pie mixture.

Place yam batter in pie shell and crumble cookies on top of pie.

Bake 35-40 minutes or toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Let cool before serving.

This is very seasonal and very good!!

With Love,
Catherine
xo