Name: Milky Way Cheesecakes
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 22 min
Total time: 42 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 10 Oreo cookies; 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted; 2 - 8 ounce packages cream cheese, softened; 1/2 cup granulated sugar; 2 tablespoons sour cream; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1/4 cup caramel ice cream topping; 2 tablespoons all purpose flour; 2 large eggs; 1 cup chopped Milky Way Midnight bars, extra for garnish; Whipped Cream

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So many recipes to choose from, not enough time in the month to try them all though.

For my first month I was assigned to April's blog Angel Foods Kitchen. I like how she shares so many family friendly recipes that are really easy to make.

I have to admit her chocolate chip cookie recipe was calling out to be made by me, but then I came across her baked peanut butter oatmeal.

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Milky Way Cheesecakes

Do you ever have one of those days?
You know the one.
Where you just want to crawl back under the covers
and not emerge until tomorrow.I had one of those "not so horrible, but not so great" days recently.
First I just couldn't get moving fast enough in the morning.
My kids were almost tardy for the very first time.
Then later I opened the "busting at the seams" baking cupboard
and knocked out the sea salt.
It broke and salt went everywhere.I decided it would be better to just take a break after lunch
and rest/read for a while.
A warm cup of coffee sounded good too.
The break was just what I needed to recharge.Then I realized that if I wanted to stop at Sam's Club BEFORE
getting the kids from school, I needed to go now.
The coffee got poured into a travel cup and I headed out the door.I made it about a mile down the road
and started taking a sip of my delicious coffee...
only to find out that I didn't close the lid all the way.
Seriously???Yea, warm coffee now is all over my shirt and my jeans.
AND I was going to run into Sam's Club.
Perfect!It is going to look like I wet myself.Thank goodness we always get too many napkins from restaurants...
they were my saving grace.
I blotted and drove, drove and blotted.
And fortunately the jeans were dry enough to not be noticed...at least that is what I am telling myself:-)

A day like that deserves more cheesecake.
And Milky Way cheesecake
sounds just about perfect.I suggest snagging all the ones that your kids get
in their Halloween buckets so you can make these.Or just go to Target and get a big bag of them for yourself!Either way, you will be thanking me for such
a delicious treat that banishes bad days!!!

Recipe

Milky Way Cheesecakes

Yield: 12 cheesecakes

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 22 minutes

Total Time: 42 minutes

Caramel cheesecakes filled with Milky Way candy bar chunks.

5.0 Stars (1 Review)

Ingredients

For the Crust

10 Oreo cookies
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
2 - 8 ounce packages cream cheese, softened
½ cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup caramel ice cream topping
2 tablespoons all purpose flour
2 large eggs
1 cup chopped Milky Way Midnight bars, extra for garnish
Whipped Cream

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cupcake pan with 12 liners.
Place cookies, cream included, in a food processor. Pulse until they become crumbs. Stir in melted butter.
Evenly spoon crumbs into cupcake liners and press down.
Beat the cream cheese and sugar until creamy.
Add the sour cream, vanilla, caramel topping, and flour and beat again.
Whisk the eggs in a separate bowl. Gently mix the eggs in to the batter until combined.
Stir in the Milky Way candies by hand.
Fill the cupcake liners with the batter. Bake 22-24 minutes.
Cool in pan for about 15 minutes, then remove to wire rack to cool completely. Refrigerate until chilled.
Before serving, top with whipped cream and garnish with extra Milky Way minis.

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 349Total Fat: 21gSaturated Fat: 12gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 77mgSodium: 224mgCarbohydrates: 36gFiber: 1gSugar: 29gProtein: 5g

Nutrition facts are an estimate and are not guaranteed to be accurate. If you need special diet advice, please see a registered dietician.

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My sister and I just finished our 2nd cyber crafting project.
It has been fun for us, but we have learned something...

Both of us are huge procrastinators!

I am not sure what the point of us having a deadline is???
Neither of us was ready on our chosen day to show off our projects:-)
Maybe the more we do, the better we will get?
One can dream!

This month Jenni picked Mod Podge frames for us to do.
Sounds quick and easy to do, right?
Not if you are procrastinators:-)
I waited until the last possible moment to whip these out.
Sure is a good thing that mod podge dries super fast:-)

Frames - $3 (Dollar Tree)
Paper, skulls, ribbon, mod podge - in my stash
Yea for stash busting!!!!

Paint the front of the frame with mod podge.
Place the paper on top and smooth it out.
Let dry for 5 minutes or so.
Flip the frame over (the back of the frame should be facing you now)
Cut an "x" from corner to corner in the inside square with an exacto knife.
Cut away the edges leaving just enough to glue onto the inside of the frame.
On the outside of the frame, cut a diagonal line on each corner.
Now glue down one side at a time.
Fold the corners down just like wrapping a present.
Then paint glue all over the paper to seal it.

While they dried, I cut a square out of a cereal box for the picture part
and covered it with black scrapbook paper.
My husband cut off the back of the skeleton skull
with some sharp object from his garage,
so that I could glue it flat with my hot glue gun.

I think my favorite part is the ribbon on the girl skull!

These were so easy to do.
Now I am thinking of doing some frames for my bedroom walls...
but I will probably just procrastinate some more on that one:-)

Isn't this monster frame adorable???
Jenni sent me THIS PICTURE for her inspiration.
I think hers turned out absolutely adorable...
but I think the best part is my cute little nephew in his monster costume.
So excited to squeeze on him very soon!!!!!

Frame $3 (Michaels)
Boo Sticker - part of set $3
Googly Eyes -$6 (Michaels)
Ribbon, Paint, Paper - in her stash

Paint the frame.
Mod Podge and arrange eye balls all over the top.
Glue ribbon around the edges and front of the frame.
Layer sticker with paper so it "pops" out. Glue on.
Add a cute monster baby picture and you have a super cute Halloween frame!

Maybe we should get started now for our next month's craft...
NNNNAAAAAAAHHHHH!
I'm pretty sure we will both wait until the last possible minute again:-)

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I have a huge confession to make today. Believe me, my head is hung in complete shame! I just did something that always bugs me when I see it in the store!

I was driving the kids to school this morning, and I remembered that I had to stop at Walmart afterwards. Now this is not normally a problem. EXCEPT that I get up in just enough time to throw on a hat and head out the door.

Yup you guess it. I drop my kids off while wearing my pajamas! It is the only place that I will actually go out while wearing them. My logic is that no one actually sees them because I don't get out of my van.

I really thought long and hard about why I needed to stop. Unfortunately, it was a stop that had to be made right then. It couldn't wait until later.

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**I know this isn't a fun recipe, but I am asking you to please read it!**

One thing that I love about our church is how involved we are with missions.

We have taken on supporting and doing projects for Haiti. Our main project each year is putting together Christmas bags for the children in Haiti. Each bag consists of a coloring book, pencils, a small toy, some candy, a toothbrush, and toothpaste. And they are thrilled by this!!!! Makes me feel guilty when I think about all the fun stuff that my kids get under our Christmas tree...and even though they like it all, I am sure they don't appreciate it as much as they should. What would they think if that is all we gave them one year?

Another main way we support Haiti is by sending mission teams each year to do various projects. This year my husband and I have the opportunity to serve together on one of these teams. Can I be honest with you? This is stretching me WAY outside my comfort zone! I like my comfortable life that I have here in the States. And that is exactly why I NEED to go!!! When my husband first asked me about going with him (actually I am pretty sure he told me I was going:-), I honestly didn't want to go. I heard all the stories about tarantulas crawling into your shoes. And the outhouse facilities...they sound downright scary! I mean when they tell you DON'T shine your flashlight down the hole because you don't want to see all the bugs moving down there...why would I want to go??? But God worked in my heart and changed my attitude about going. I am looking forward to seeing how God is going to use it in my life and how He is going to change me as a result of this trip. Even though I am excited now about going, there is still that small part of my heart that is scared. We are leaving our 3 kids behind and going into a third world country. As a mom, this really makes me worry. There was a major earthquake there just a year and half ago. What if something like that happened again and we didn't come back to our babies? As excited as I am about going, this fear has a grip on my heart. I know that there will be many people praying for our team as we travel and I know without a doubt that God will protect us as we serve His people. I have the head knowledge...let's hope that heart knowledge catches up quickly:-)

Now I want to share something else that is on my heart. A few months ago, we had a couple who head up a mission group from FL come speak at our church. He was inspiring and I loved seeing the passion that he spoke with, but one thing stuck out to me more than anything else. In his slide show presentation, he showed their "eye clinic". It was just a table lined up with different glasses in different prescriptions. No fancy machines to check their eyes and see exactly what prescription they need. Basically they just have them try on different ones until they can see better. What struck me was how I take for granted something as simple as going to my eye doctor each year. I know there are many more things that I take for granted, but this one hit home. Mostly because my eyes have been terrible since I was in 2nd grade and I grew up wearing glasses. I never thought anything about going and getting a new prescription filled. My eyes were so bad that I couldn't see our alarm clock from just across the room. It was just a red blur. Yet there are people walking around in many other countries only seeing a blur. I never thought about it this way before. They don't get to see with clarity all the wonderful things God has created for them. Now I realize that I am not an eye doctor and I can't do much, but I wanted to do something!

I feel like God has laid this on my heart for a reason. All summer I wondered what could I do? Then one day it hit me! I want to collect as many used eyeglasses as I can in the next 6 weeks, and then personally deliver them to the mission that we are visiting. I have friends, family and whole blog full of readers who just might want to help me with this project. Even if you don't wear glasses, you can help because you know people who wear glasses.:-)

What I am asking is for you to help me spread the word, gather as many glasses together as you can, and then mail the package to me before October 21st. Sounds easy enough right? I was telling my mom about this the other day and telling her how I wondered if anyone would even care about helping me with this. She encouraged me with this thought, "You just might be surprised at how God will provide." I am putting it out there to see if you would allow God to work in your life by helping me send glasses to people that don't have the conveniences that we do.

If you are collecting glasses, please email me and I will send you the address of where to mail them. My email is insidebrucrewlife@gmail.com
Here are some ways that you can help spread the word.

1. Ask your friends & family to donate any used glasses, then gather them and mail them to me.
2. See if your church/small group would let you announce it, collect them & mail to me.
3. Post it on your Facebook page or even post about it on your blog.
4. Pray that God will work in many hearts.

Thank you so much for reading my blog. If you liked this post, please leave a comment. Comments are a great way for me to see what is a blog hit or miss:-)

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