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Five Recipes for Nat’l Cheesecake Day!
Tomorrow is National Cheesecake Day! These days are, of course, completely arbitrary most of the time. (Seriously, why is every day designated to a specific food? It’s the strangest thing we humans have ever come up with. Besides this.)
Still, I can’t help but celebrate them. As soon as I see a holiday coming up, I think, “Hey, I love [insert food here]!” and “Wow, I have a lot of oatmeal recipes like [insert food here]!” Cheesecake is no exception.
Cheesecake Baked Oatmeal is a rather new adventure of mine, but I still had five killer recipes to share for this holiday! (more…)
Topping: Cheesecake PB2
This recipe tastes like peanut butter (or, at least, PB2), with a creamy tang. It’s not quite like biting into a slice of cheesecake because the PB2 flavor is still pretty pronounced, but the two flavors together (with the richness of the cream cheese) is really quite pleasant. After all, peanut butter is a hugely popular ingredient in variations of cheesecake! They are a great match.
Raspberry Cheesecake Brownie Baked Oatmeal
I’ve been waiting months to make this. I would have done it sooner–I even bought the cream cheese!–but I was waiting for raspberries to be more affordable. Even at Trader Joe’s, they’ve been around $5, and I was not willing to fork over the money for that.
But we must really be in reach of summer because raspberries are finally under the $4 mark!
Have you ever had a brownie swirled with cream cheese and raspberries? I have. Have you ever had a vegan one? I have. Let’s be honest: there is something totally satisfying about a plain, simple brownie (especially if it’s dense and fudgy, and not cakey, but that’s a personal preference ). But Raspberry Cheesecake Brownies are one of the few that I find even more satisfying than an original.
Good news: this baked oatmeal perfectly captures that.
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Red Velvet Brownie Baked Oatmeal [Guest Post]
Here’s winner #4 from the brownie baked oatmeal contest! I had a really hard time narrowing down my favorite submissions. š Ā Special apology to Chandler, who sent me these lovely materials weeks ago, and I was supposed to publish it on Monday, but I forgot! Doh. Forgive me, Chandler!
Hello fellow oatmeal lovers! My name is Chandler, I am 20 years old, and I am a recent graduate with a B.A. in Spanish as well as Teaching English as a Second Language. At this point in my life, I am looking forward to grad school in the fall, working a ton, cooking as much as I can, and eating up several boxes of oatmeal a month.
My love for oatmeal has evolved a lot over the years from the early days of Quaker dinosaur egg oatmeal. I, an aspiring paleontologist, would lick all the oatmeal off the dinosaur eggs and then refuse to actually eat the eggs. (They were pretty nasty!) Now I put oatmeal into just about everything and eat it with just about every topping imaginable- cheese, fruits, hummus, nuts, eggs, and even chicken. When I saw Laurenās brownie baked oatmeal challenge, I instantly knew what recipe I would submit. I have been reading her blog since the very beginning when I was looking for inspiration for my own blog (www.harpandchanscrafts.blogspot.com), which I have unfortunately neglected for a couple of months.
Anyway, I had made Red Velvet Baked Oatmeal for my blog several years back, and I decided to tinker with the recipe and make it even better. I am visiting my family this weekend, and two of my picky little sisters loved the recipe. What they didnāt know is that it has a hidden vegetable- beets!- that contribute to the āred velvetā color. Canāt picture beets in a sweet oatmeal recipe? Try it for yourself and see. The pickiest of my sisters said the oatmeal tasted like no bake Christmas cookies! (more…)
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Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal with Cream Cheese
I’m not going to sugar-coat this: I hate these pictures. I planned to post this recipe ages ago, but I hated the pictures too much. However, I’m also too lazy to retake them.
Ugly pictures it is, then.
This recipe is honestly just my Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal with Tofutti* cream cheese swirled in. Ground-breaking, I know. But is there any better compliment to carrot cake than cream cheese? (Don’t you dare say raisins.)
*This is not a sponsored post.
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Turtle Cheesecake Baked Oatmeal
Welp, if this isn’t a dessert oatmeal, I don’t know what is.
I told you I was going to make several variations on my Cheesecake Baked Oatmeal, did I not? Here is the first of many. I’m not sure why I decided to start with the fanciest, but I have to start somewhere, n’est-ce pas? I would argue, however, that turtle cheesecakeĀ is one of the more popular variations on the popular dessert.
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Gingerbread Cream Cheese Baked Oatmeal
It’s December! That means it’s time to start rolling out the Christmas-inspired recipes. Yippee!
Gingerbread cookies are interesting. What really is the difference between gingerbread cookies and ginger molasses cookies? Can anyone answer this for me? They taste the same to me. Is it just the fact that gingerbread cookies are flat and snappy, while ginger molasses cookies tend to be puffier and softer? Yes? No? Maybe? And where do gingersnaps fit in this category? They all taste the same, am I right?!
Anyway, I feel like “gingersnaps” and “ginger molasses” cookies are enjoyed year round, but gingerbread cookies (particularly gingerbreadĀ manĀ cookies) are specifically associated with the holiday season. I think it has to do with the hearty earthiness of the gingerbread flavor. We seem to like those flavors more during the winter months than the summer months.
Am I crazy? Does all of this sound made up? I just don’t know.
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Banana Spice Cake Baked Oatmeal with Cream Cheese
You know what’s delicious? Banana spice cake with cream cheese frosting.
I fell in love with that cake during my sophomore year of college. The dining hall would serve a variety of desserts every evening, and I loved when they offered this cake. My roommate/cousin (hi, Candice!) would always grab a slice when this was available.
Now that I like vegan cream cheese, I was so excited to finally make this oatmeal. I have to say, out of all my cream cheese oatmeals (I have many more, and they will be posted in the upcoming weeks!), this one is my favorite.
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Jalapeno Popper Savory Oatmeal [Guest Post]
This recipe is the finalĀ of three savory recipes that won the Savory Oatmeal Contest. In case you missed them, here areĀ Sarahās Curried Pumpkin Basil OatmealĀ and Lyndsey’s BBQ Sweet Potato Oatmeal.
My name isĀ Joz Lee. Short story: When I got married, I did not know how to cook. My husband was a good cook andĀ I learned from him. Then we traveled to different states and countries; wherever we traveled, I was involved in learning and participating in the FOOD. Then I had a chance to take a nutritionĀ course and got certified. After that I fell in loveĀ with food. I findĀ a new recipe and I follow it to a ‘T,’ and then I improvise, change, and often don’t measure out the ingredients! Ā It almost always comes out perfectly.
Cheesecake Baked Oatmeal
I gave up on this recipe ages ago. As I mentioned in my Berry Cream Cheese Baked Oatmeal, I have been trying to master a cheesecake oatmeal since 2013! Now that I like the taste of Tofutti, and I’ve discovered the trick of adding zucchini, I figured it was time to try it again.
I think one thing hindering my progress was that my mom makesĀ amazing cheesecake. Even though I haven’t had it since my vegetarian days, I still recall the creamy, tangy, sweet, rich flavor of those perfect cakes. Mommy, I miss your cheesecake!!! (more…)
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