Week Twenty-Eight: Mini Cookies n’ Cream Cheesecakes and Black and White Cookies

(The cheesecake recipe this week came from “Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes” and the cookie recipe came from “Chocolate and Vanilla” by Gale Gand.)

Yikes! Sorry it took so long to post this! You wouldn’t think a little thing like packing up your whole house and moving to a new state would interfere with your bakin’ n bloggin’, but it really does!

On July 4th, Rob and I went to our friends Clint and Becky Reno’s house for some burgers and hang-out time. Our job was to bring desserts, so I thought I’d make some mini cheesecakes and black and white cookies.

The cheesecakes began with an Oreo cookie placed in a paper liner in a cupcake tin:

The cheesecake batter was then mixed up, and crushed up Oreo cookies were mixed in:

The cheesecake batter was evenly distributed over the Oreo ‘crusts’ and the cheesecakes were baked. Once they came out of the oven, they cooled to room temperature and were refrigerated:

The black and white cookies weren’t quite as easy to work with. The dough was incredibly sticky, and trying to put the balls of dough on my cookie sheets without an ice cream scooper was a little bit of a nightmare. The first sheet of cookies turned out like this:

The second sheet was a little better:

Once they were decorated, they turned out looking much better. They were a big hit:

Next week’s baking project (which I’m going to post as soon as I hit ‘submit’ on this one) will be a short, short, SHORT one! Pear Coffee Cake Muffins!