Delicious-ness & small update

So, I have been dying, and I really mean dying to bake.. something.. anything actually. I'm not even too sure why, because I'm definitely not PMSing. But, I've felt like making entire bathes of cookies, cupcakes, and cakes and just sitting with a spoon and devouring every bit. The problem was? I was feeling too lazy, and my kitchen ends up trashed every time I make anything. I blame this all on Pinterest. A friend of mine, Bethany tweeted about pinning too many desserts on Pinterest a few days ago, and I've been hung up on the "Food & drink" section ever since. I finally put myself over the edge today, and pulled out some ingredients.

I was definitely preparing, because over 3 days, I managed to buy 3 packages of cream cheese, 4 bags of chocolate chips, a box of unsalted butter, a 4 lb bag of confectioner's sugar, & some random cake mixes. (P.S- I never make boxed cakes usually, most of you who know me, know this, BUT, I came across a few recipes that call for a plain ol' boxed cake as a base)

I was scrolling through my huge boards of  "desserts" & "baking etc." to find what I wanted to make. I realized I was missing an ingredient or 2, so kept scrolling. I wanted to make red velvet cookies with cream cheese frosting, but the recipe called for a box of red velvet cake, which I didn't have, and didn't realllllyyyyy feel like making, only to make cookies out of it. Anyway, I came across a chocolate chip cookie recipe, and it had swirls of cheesecake filling in it. Well, that recipe called for crescent rolls, which was, i dunno, weird to me? So, I had a genius idea! Make cheesecake filling, and make my own chocolate chip cookie dough, and top it with the filling. I did it.. and boy.. am I glad I did it! They are/ were SOOO good. I didn't take step-by-step pictures, only because my kids were on their way home from grandma's, and there were reports that Cody didn't feel good, so I wanted to hurry.

I basically made the toll house chocolate chip cookie recipe, which can be found here if you don't have a bag of toll house chocolate chips with the recipe on the back! (I did NOT add the nuts!) Then I made the cheesecake, which I made like so:

1- 8oz pkg. of cream cheese
1/4 cup of white granulated sugar
2 Tsp. vanilla extract

I beat the cream cheese and sugar first, and then beat in the vanilla.

I dropped the cookie dough by the spoonful and then plopped some of the cheesecake filling on top. It cooks over the cookie, so you don't really have to worry about it getting all gross and melting of or anything. I baked them at 375 for ~11 minutes.

Then, you get this ooey gooey, delicious goodness. Greatness, rather.

Yes, you honestly needed to see that many pictures of them ;D

Okay, I'll make this post about something other than just cookies.

Monday is our 2nd wedding anniversary, and my dear husband has a nice little night away planned for us. We are going to Toledo, and we got a nice hotel room and we're planning on going to the beach, and checking out the Toledo Zoo. I can't forget my camera, CAN'T FORGET MY CAMERA. We always, and I mean always forget the nice camera whenever we go anywhere. I'm surprised we remembered it for my last post.

I'll try to get in another blog post this weekend, probably after I get home from Toledo, so I hope that everyone has a FUN, safe memorial day weekend!