Each week I will take one of my "pins", make it happen, and blog about it. Forget New Year's resolutions. I'm starting now. Well, I started on Christmas Day, but whatever. I will tackle all of my new and wonderful finds and share the outcomes with you. Right now they will likely be craft oriented, but I'm switching to a Paleo lifestyle soon. I'll be sharing recipe results: the good, the bad, and the ugly. If you'd like to follow me on Pinterest and see my boards I'm Lady Libertine.
My boyfriend is not a huge fan of sweets, but he LOVES cheesecake. So, for Christmas, I started there. We plan to move across the country soon and have recently downsized from a house to a loft. Many of our things are packed away in storage. I needed something simple I could make without anything more than a bowl, a spoon, and a baking dish. Meet the "Sopapilla Cheesecake" posted by Alina for My Mellow Umbrella blogspot. The recipe is extremely simple. It's not really a sopapilla, but it's extremely tasty. After reading other people's experience with it I made a few changes.
*2 cans crescent rolls
*2 8oz packages Neufchatel cheese (room temperature)
*1 cup sugar
*1 teaspoon real vanilla extract
*1/4 cup salted butter (melted)
*Cinnamon & sugar
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Pop the can open and press crescent rolls in one long, layer into a 9x13, ungreased, baking dish. While the oven is heating up mix the Neufchatel cheese, sugar, and vanilla together until it's creamy and smooth. Pour mixture over the layer of crescent rolls. Open the second can of crescent rolls and cover the cheese mixture. You may end up with a few extra sections of crescent rolls, as I did. If so, you can always make some other yummy creations with them.
If I had had my utencils I would have brushed the butter over the top and saved us a lot of calories. Instead, I poured as little as possible on and tried to maneuver it around with a spatula. Not super easy, so I poured it on and watched it pool around the sides. It made my heart sink a little when I saw that. I thought, for sure, I had ruined it. I tried to soak some of it up with paper towels, fretted, and then gave in to it. I sprinkled the cinnamon sugar on top with great gusto and slid it in the oven.
I let the cheesecake bake for 23 minutes, then shut the oven off, and let it sit in the cooling oven til we had finished lunch. Alina's recipe says to let it bake for 20-30 minutes, so I suppose it's up to you. It came out quite lovely. Perfectly cooked and golden brown. Jet said it was the best cheesecake he'd ever had. I'm sure he was just saying that, but it was pretty good. Next time I will definitely try less butter and a layer of a sweet-tart fruit filling. Maybe guava paste. If I use the store bought crescent rolls again I think I will press them and get rid of the scoring before using them as a crust.
Ahhhh. I feel better already. If you can "Pin It" you can DO it. No more pining, my "Pin"-Up lovelies. Wanna join me? Post your trials and errors, too. I'd love to hear from you and follow you (on Pinterest, that is)!
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