Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Tofu Cheesecake *GF*

Last time I was at the commissary (the military version of a grocery store, everything is roughly 30% off, no sales tax- kind of rad), I picked up a bag of Reese's peanut butter cups for only $1.50. Normally I wouldn't buy something like that, I don't need the sugar, I don't need the temptation, if I really want peanut butter cups I can just make my own, right? ...Somehow they ended up in my cart, in a bag (somebody asked in a previous post where I got my brown paper bags, since I had mentioned something about saving them for an upcoming holiday project- so to answer your questions, the commissary), in the back of Jetfire (you may have missed the post where we named our car), and then on the kitchen counter.

"What am I going to do with those?", I asked the microwave as I stood above the autumn colored bag on the counter, in desperate attempts to find a use for them before I ate them all myself. You talk to your appliances too, right?

Our last package of refrigerated tofu had 3 days left before it expired, so, I figured I had better make the most of the situation, and combine the two. Tofu peanut butter something. I didn't want to bake anything, I just wanted it to be done already. A freezer cheesecake! Yes. Normally I would use cashews for such a thing, but I'm saving the remaining bag of cashews for a vegan fudge experiment (which will happen today or tomorrow, lets hope I don't mess it up).

I put out a call for help, a 3 year old by the name of Eleanore extended her hand, and we got to blendin'. Before I list the ingredients, I have to say, they're weird. You're more than welcome to try my recipe, but hopefully this will inspire you to adapt it, and make it your own. I combine sour cream and tofu. Sugar and stevia. Who does that? I feel a little less guilty when its half healthy, ya know? I bet you do know, though.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Tofu Cheesecake

Ingredients:
-1 package soft tofu (I didn't drain it, but probably should have)
-3/4 cup peanut butter
-3/4 cup sour cream
-1 tsp stevia (this is equal to about 8 Tbsp sugar)
-1/2 cup sugar
-2 tsp vanilla
-32 31 30 29 28 Reese's peanut butter cups, chopped

The Crust:
-I cup ground peanuts
-1 Tbsp chocolate
-2 Tbsp sugar

This is what you do:
-Mix the crust ingredients together, and sprinkle the mixture into the bottom of a spring form.
-Mix all of the cheesecake ingredients together in a blender.
-Pour the cheesecake into the spring form, refrigerate or freeze. Wait a few hours. Eat it.

So easy. And really, it totally tasted like cheesecake after it was cold. Don't let the batter fool you (because I know you're going to be licking the spatula, dipping it, and then licking it again).

Someday I'm going to post recipes for things other than cakes, I promise. I'm not so much a fan for the salty as I am the sweet.

Yum!

Week 15

The other day when I was cleaning out the laundry room (seriously, I'm so excited- its still clean) I found a box full of old photographs and diddlybobs (not an actual word, I know, and yeah the laundry room had better still be clean after only two days, haha). Inside the bent up and taped back together Huggies diaper wipe box, was one of my old high school ID cards. I remember at the time, thinking that it was a really good picture, and thinking that maybe I was finally developing into a prettier girl than I had been for the majority of my childhood.

Ready for it?

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Yep.

And because you can't see it, and I think that it is critical information- I was wearing a black jersey style Tinkerbell shirt. Obviously, I was very popular.

Look at how perfectly clear my skin was. I would do anything to have that skin back! I didn't wear makeup back then, I didn't know how to operate a blow dryer (again, very popular. All the boys were waiting in line), but for not knowing much about beauty products, I don't think it was as bad as it could have been, right? Not yet at least. My rebellious phase didn't kick into gear until a year or so later (and boy I can't wait until I can go into details about that).

I'm glad I kept it. Even if I was never the prom queen that I would have liked to be at the time, its nice to have this credit card sized piece of plastic to look back on.
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