New Recipe for 2017 #9 - Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies

This recipe is from the blog Eighteen25. I love chocolate chip cookies, and am always looking out for a new, maybe better recipe.

Alas, these cookies are good, but not any better than the recipe on the back of the bag of Nestle semisweet chocolate chips.

This recipe did teach me to stop watching the funny video on Facebook when the oven timer goes off. The second two pans of cookies ended up darker and harder.

New Recipe for 2017 #8 - Confetti Cake

So I made the Mini Chocolate Pecan Cheesecakes and realized that I did not have enough for the meeting at work. I grabbed The Cookie and Cups Cookbook and looked to see what I could make without having to go to the grocery store. Confetti Cake won.

This is a really good cake. It stays moist in dry Denver - always a plus. The one complaint I have is that it is too sweet. It has 1 1/2 cups of sugar plus the 1/2 cup of sprinkles. In future, I'll cut the sugar to 3/4 cup and will hopefully avoid a diabetic coma.

New Recipe of 2017 #7 - Mini Chocolate Pecan Cheesecakes

I got this recipe from My Baking Addiction. The cheesecakes are made in a standard muffin tin. It says to line the tins with metal baking cups. I used paper ones. They baked up fine, although I think I overbaked the crust just a little bit because my muffin tin was a dark metal. One thing to note is that the recipe only makes 12 cheesecakes. 

This recipe is OK. My favorite cheesecake recipe is still my Aunt Betty's. The ganache recipe she gives did not work for me. The ganache stayed in a liquid form despite spending several hours in the refrigerator. I dumped the whole thing back into the saucepan, heated it up, and poured the hot mixture over another 4 ounces of semisweet chocolate. Then, it finally got solid enough to put on the cheesecakes.

I spread the leftover ganache on Girl Scout Trefoil cookies and sprinkled pecans on top.