How does a Witch celebrate the Season?

I LOVE this time of year!

Autumn is my favorite, I get to pull out my boots & sweaters, and the FOOD! It makes me happy!

It is a few days before Thanksgiving, and you have surely noticed the GIFT messages everywhere. Gifting season is here!

I have made a Goddess Holiday Gift Guide this year, incorporating wonderful gifts, made with love, for your favorite Kitchen Witches, treasure hunters, vintage fans, or green witches :).

Enjoy!
Much love,
Heike

Quick, & very fattening. The best Cheesecake ever!

Many, many moons ago I visited New Orleans. During that stay I bought a fundraiser cookbook off of a nice lady I met :).

I LOVE this cookbook! It is about a million years old, a bit stained, a bit tattered, but it is still one of my favorite. Everything in there is SIMPLE :).

Everyone one in my house has a birthday cake favorite. Yesterday was my husband's birthday, and he wanted cheesecake.

Here is the recipe, hold on to your buttons!

3 large packages of soft cream cheese
4 eggs
3/4  cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 pint sour cream
1 box zwieback or ginger snap crumbs

Cream cheese and add 3/4 cups of sugar and eggs one at a time. Add vanilla. Pour into greased spring pan lined with zwieback on bottom. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Whip 1 pint sour cream 1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar and pour over cake. Return to same oven for another 10 minutes. Put in refrigerator for a least 3 hours and chill before serving.

Divine!!!

The original recipe says 2 hours chilling, but you will see in my pictures that 2 hours just does not set the cheesecake enough. Over night is what I usually do, but I was not on schedule yesterday and we could not wait any longer to dig in :).

Serve with strawberry sauce, or like us, plum sauce (that is actually supposed to be jam, but it did not set. Tastes fabulous!!)

Enjoy!!