Easy Peasy Cheesecake!

I guess I'm in the baking mood =)

Ingredients:
1 Graham Cracker Pie Crust (6oz)
1 16oz Low-Fat Philadelphia Cream Cheese Container, softened
1/2 c. White Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla
1 tsp lemon zest
3 eggs--see note below

1. Pre-heat oven at 325 degrees F. Beat the cream cheese, sugar, lemon zest and vanilla. Add the egg substitute and mix just until blended.

2. Pour into crust. Bake 40 minutes (until center is almost set). Cool. Refrigerate 3 hours.

YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Some notes:
1. To soften the cream cheese, place the container in the microwave on High for 45 seconds. (this is much easier at the same cost of buying the 8 oz packages)
2. Use Splenda if you want to make this treat even healthier.--I'm just not a fan of the Splenda taste.
3. For clean edges on the cheesecake slices, use a sharp knife to cut the chilled cheesecake, wiping the knife blade with a damp cloth between each cut.
4. EGGS-so I obviously used egg replacer--EnerG egg replacer which is 1.5 tsp powder + 2 tbls warm water mixed prior to adding to the recipe.

Spice Cake for Fasting

Yet another Chaturmas-friendly farrari recipe =)
Spice Cake!

Ingredients:
1/2 c. Singoda Flour
1/2 c. Buckwheat Flour
1/2 c. Potato Flour
3/4 c. White Sugar
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Salt
1 1/4 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Ground Cloves
1/2 tsp Ground Nutmeg
1/2 tsp Ground AllSpice
1 pinch Ground Black Pepper
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1 tbls Honey
1/4 c. Oil
1 tbls Distilled White Vinegar
1 tsp Vanilla
1 c. Cold Water

1. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F. Whisk together the first set of ingredients in a large mixing bowl.

2. Stir together the second set of ingredients in a measuring cup.

3. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients; pour the wet ingredients into the well. Mix the batter together until just blended. Pour the batter into an ungreased 8x8 inch baking pan.

4. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack. Either frost it with vanilla frosting or sprinkle on some confectioners sugar.

YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Some notes:

When you make the batter, you might have to add some water and oil because the Singoda flour makes it extremely jello-like.

Also, the taste turns out great, however it does not rise as well as normal cake because of the farrari flours and their consistency. I'm sure the eggs have something to do with it too.

Pinwheels!!

so ever since Houston and Kashyup&Tejals wedding more than a few of us have been going gaga for these amazing pinwheel appetizers...so I'm going to make them today--unfortunately can't be lazy ab it because Shivu is not here to help.
So I found a basic recipe for them online and kind of twerked it a bit:
to make 100:

ingredients:
16 oz sour cream
16 cream cheese-softened
2 Serrano chilies-finely chopped
2 c. grated cheddar cheese
1 can olives-well drained and finely chopped
1/2 c. green bell pepper-finely chopped
1/2 c. red bell pepper-finely chopped
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
4-5 tsp taco bell mild sauce (swaminarayan safe =D)
10 10" flour tortillas

MIX all the ingredients except tortillas

SPREAD about 2 heap tbls onto each tortilla

ROLL each tortilla individually

WRAP each roll with Saran Wrap
REFRIGERATE rolls for several hours

UNWRAP & CUT into 1/2"-3/4" thick slices discarding the ends

YUMMMMMMMMMM

some notes:
I used low fat cream cheese to make this a little healthier.
The serranos can be quite powerful and spicy even to the touch so if you wear contacts DO NOT CUT them. Instead throw them in a hand grinder!!