Weight Watchers Cheesecake cant be that good, right?? WRONG!!!!

Hello my friendly followers...all three of you... Ha just kidding there might be more but who knows, anywho today I was in the kitchen baking! As a member of weight watchers I have access to weight watchers online, where there are thousands of recipes to try. Now let me get one thing straight, not all of the recipes are good...some of them are not tasty but some of them are also sooo good that you dont even know what your eating isnt really bad for you. So I came across this recipe for a chocolate chip cheesecake and though I was skeptical at first I read the reviews and out of 138 of them, everyone said they either loved it or liked it so I decided to give it a shot. First change I made to the recipe though was to make the whole cheesecake into individual cupcake sized cheesecakes cause then I can keep them in my freezer and get one out when I want one. So here is the recipe and I am telling you they are sooo frickin good. So try them out!

Yumm!! I made mini ones too!

Ingredients:

1 box chocolate graham crackers or chocolate wafers (I used chocolate teddy grahams cause they were on sale)
8 oz block of fat free cream cheese
8oz tub of low fat or fat free cream cheese
3/4 cup sugar
2 Tbsp flour
1 cup fat free cottage cheese
2 tsp vanilla extract
6 large egg whites
3/4 cup mini semi sweet chocolate chips

Instructions:
Pre-heat the oven to 325

Crush grahams in a bag using a rolling pin, until fine, and set aside

Using an electric mixer, beat together cream cheeses until well blended

In a small bowl combine sugar and flour and then add to cream cheese mixture and beat until smooth

In a food processor or blender, puree cottage cheese until smooth. Then add to cream cheese mixture. Also add the vanilla extract to the cream cheese mixture too. Again beat the mixture until smooth.

Then add lightly beaten egg whites to cream cheese mixture and beat until mixed. Then stir in 1/2 cup chocolate chips to cream cheese mixture.

In a cupcake pan (you can use the cupcake liners or not, but if you dont, make sure to grease the pan) put   a little of the chocolate grahams and then fill each cupcake almost to the top with the cream cheese mixture and then sprinkle a few chocolate chips on top as well.

Put in the oven for about 24 minutes and then let cool. You can serve it warm or put them in the freezer and serve cool with a little bit of whip cream on top. It makes about 24 cupcake size cheesecakes.

They are 3 Points Plus on WW as a cupcake, but if you decide to make it as a whole cheesecake it serves 12 and each slice is 6 Points Plus. They are absolutely delicious and I suggest you try them!!!

"Say my name, say my name..."

SOoooo I havent updated probably in about a week and a half because my brother, Zach, came home for a week of summer vacation. We have been having a lot of fun as a fam, going to a Braves game and then Lazer show etc.  I think I used to take this stuff for granted because you dont realize how important family time is until you dont have it anymore. Zach lives in Indiana and Im getting ready to move to Florida and Josh is in school in Georgia and its just strange to think we will never live under the same roof again and we are all growing up. So enjoy that time with your fam, even if they make you crazy sometimes....cause I definitely miss the crazy times when we were kids.
 Anywho I decided to be totally self absorbed with this latest blog post and talk about the name ALLISON. I only share this name with millions of other people, but I feel kind of special that there are a bunch of songs with the name ALLISON in them. In spinning this week they played the song, "Allison Road" by the Gin Blossoms and I got to thinking, I wonder how many songs have my name in them so I found a few to share with all of you for fun! So check out the youtube videos below!

"Allison Road" by Gin Blossoms -Who doesnt love the Gin Blossoms!! Great 90s band..too bad they broke up!

"Allison" by Elvis Costello - Plain and simple...its a classic!

"Allison" by Permanent Me- I have never heard this song before but hey my name is in it and its catchy! and there is a line in it says "hey allison you are the one that makes boys hold their breath as you walk on.." haha

"Allison" by The Pixies- Okay so this song is about singer Moses Allison (who is in fact a man) but whatever its my name. And if ya didnt know already Allison only became a girls name in the 20th century, before that back in Germany it used to be a boys name meaning "son of Alice" ha!

"Allison" by Erickson - Kind of a punk, poppy song, that I have never heard until now. You wouldnt believe how many songs you can find on Itunes called "Allison" haha!

Well unfortunately I cant find anymore videos on youtube but like I said there are a million...okay like 45 in Itunes so check them out if ya want to think about someone named Allison!


Peace