Dessert Is Served Part 2

Howdy Loves
So last night I posted a quick and easy dinner that is super yummy; and promised to post the fabulous dessert I made to go with it.

I decided since its a thick and hearty dinner to make a bite sized dessert.  I generally bake at least once a week and when the holidays hit so did stress and illness so my baking took a back burner to everything and it feels great to be back!  One of my father coworkers attributes her weight loss to the fact that I stopped baking; and said I was an evil evil person when she tasted these...they are her new favorite.

With all that being said I oopsed the recipe...and it was wonderful.  I'd love to say "Yeah I totally meant for that to happen"  I didn't and can't lie to you.  You'll see what I mean.

My little helper.

Peanut Butter Cheesecake Bites
Adapted from Created by Diane

2 (16 oz) package refrigerated peanut butter cookie dough (you could even use your favorite homemade dough)
 8 oz Cream Cheese (room temperature)
 3 3/4 cups Powdered Sugar
2 teaspoon Vanilla Bean Paste

1 pkg Milk Chocolate Chips (omit if you make smaller cookies)

1. Roll 1Tbsp of cookie dough into a ball for each cookie.(This is where my booboo came in if you'd like them to be simple and small like the originals you'll need to make them 2 tsp each ball and half the filling ingredients.)  
2. Place balls of dough into paper liners mini cupcake pan. 
3. Make a indentation into each ball of dough with a flour dipped mini rolling pin or the back of a measurement teaspoon.
   Beat cream cheese with powdered sugar. Stir in vanilla. 
4. Place filling into a piping bag, cut off edge of bag. Fill to the top edge of each crust.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes or until cookie tested with tooth pick comes out almost clean.
   Let cool before removing from mini cupcake pan. (If you made the smaller versions you are done.  Enjoy!)
6. Melt chocolate chips in microwave and transfer to plastic bottle.
7. Fill the cooled cheesecakes with chocolate and stick in fridge to set.
8. Keep left over in fridge and best to let them set out for 5-10 minutes before eating to let chocolate soften slightly.

Dinner Is Served! Part 1

Evening lovelies!
Here in the attic we don't just make delicious treats (though we are rather good at it); we also cook delicious dinners. Being that I do a lot of crafting on top of baking mixed with a rather active job dinners don't generally get the attention they deserve. The quicker and easier the better. So I'll going to try and add some yummy dinners that are super simple to the blog. A lot of crock pot recipes coming your way because lets face it throw it all in a big bowl and forget it for hours...total no brainer. We have literally worn the knob off our crock pot. First up is a delicious Italian Chicken over pasta. I melded together two different recipes but seemly only saved one of the sites. If anyone reading this recognizes it enough to know the second site please tell me. Love to link back to them and give credit. Until then the first site for Italian Chicken.

Italian Chicken over Pasta 
2 Large or 4 small chicken breasts
1 pkg Italian Dressing Mix
1 Can Cream of Chicken
1 Can Cream of Mushroom
1 Can Chicken Broth (I used Swanson) 4 oz Cream Cheese.
Wide Egg Noodles

1. Pour 1/3-1/2 cup of chicken broth in a cup (doesn't have to be exact). Pour the dressing mix in broth and whisk together.
2. Pour remaining broth in crock and add both cans of soup.  Mix together.
3. Place chicken in soup and pour dressing mix over chickens.
4. I cooked for 2 hours on high then 4 hours on low.  The chicken came out amazingly tender but you could also cook it for 8 hours on low or 5 hours on high.
5. About 30 minutes before you eat starts cooking your noodles.  While your water is heating up shred or cut up your chicken and return to crock and also add cream cheese.
6. Once your cream cheese has melted in and your pasta is ready spoon a heaping helping of chicken over it and enjoy!  If your sauce is too thin add some more cream cheese to help bind it together.

Tomorrow I'll be posting part 2 which will be the dessert we had with dinner!

*Doggy Update*  Still no sign of our precious puppy but praying hard that she is at least safe and happy where she is at.