It’s the weekend, so I decided to take a break from my Konmari journey to just relax a bit. The Cowboys were playing in the playoffs and if you didn’t know, well……..

I have been a Dallas Cowboy fan since I was very, very young. When I was 3 all I wanted  for Christmas was a Dallas Cowboy football uniform. My mom kept trying to talk me into the cheerleader uniform, but I would have none of it. So here I am, as an almost 4 year old, wearing my prize uniform.

Even though my team lost and I was very sad we had some yummy baked goods that my daughter and I whipped up because they are both quick and super easy. Not to mention really good.

Cream Cheese Pecan Cookies

Ingredients:

2 sticks of butter (at room temp)

4 oz cream cheese

1 cup sugar

1 egg yolk

1 tsp vanilla

2 1/4 cup flour

1/2 salt

1/4 tsp baking powder

Cream butter and cream cheese together. Add sugar, egg yolk and vanilla. Gradually add flour, salt and baking powder. Scoop about a tablespoon onto an ungreased cookie sheet. (I line mine with parchment paper). Top with a pecan half. (I only had to pecan pieces and they worked just fine)

Bake at 350 for 12-14 minutes

They are SO good. Not too sweet and very buttery.

We also made cheesecake swirl brownies. It’s just regular box brownies, but when you add the cheesecake swirl it becomes something totally different. I’m not a big fan of plain brownies, but these are wonderful. The cheesecake cuts the overly sweetness of the chocolate.

Cheesecake Swirl

6 oz cream cheese

5 T softened butter

1/3 cup sugar

2 Large Eggs

2 T flour

1/2 tsp vanilla

You just mix all of this up together until smooth and drop it my spoonfuls over 1/2 your batter. Next just pour the rest of the brownie batter on top and swirl it with a knife. This was for a 9×13 pan. If you do the smaller 9×9, just cut the recipe in half.

I think it would be great with any cake batter also.

Even my son who is not a chocolate lover liked these.  They are seriously good.

Hope you are having a nice relaxing weekend also. I’m off to lick my wounds and watch the Saints (my second favorite team) hopefully beat the Eagles. Who dat!

Stacy