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Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Bites

chocolate raspberry cheesecake bites
chocolate raspberry cheesecake bites
Four dozen cheesecakes in less than 45 minutes!

We buy cream cheese when it’s on sale, but, then we have to use it. That’s harder than it seems, as we don’t spread cream cheese on bagels or anything like that. We tend to prefer the harder cheeses for eating. So, after a while, we look in the dairy drawer in the refrigerator, see the block of cream cheese, and figure we need to use it somehow, and then make something up. This time, we made small cheesecake bites. Mainly because this is the easiest thing ever to make.

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Tourteau de chèvre

This particular recipe from Dorie Greenspan (Around my French Table) is way too good for the amount of effort required. It is really easy to put together — the most difficult part is separating the eggs — and it makes one of the best cheesecakes that we’ve ever had. Dreamy light, subtlety sweet, with a rich cheese flavor, this cake can easily stand on its own, but it would also be great with a raspberry coulis or a really good chocolate sauce. But for now, let’s go with plain.

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Peanut Butter Cheesecake

peanut butter cheesecake
We are getting better at making our cheesecake look as good as they taste!

We’ve made this several times, and with care it can look like the photo above. Really!

As I mentioned yesterday, we found that Cup Cafe has one of the best desserts on the planet: Peanut Butter Cheesecake. For about a year we had wanted to figure out how to make it, but just didn’t know how the cafe staff could make it as light and creamy as it is.

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