[JustAmy]

Good morning, Dear Friends. Happy Monday (I think).
Today's Holiday celebrations are .....


Kiss And Make Up Day


National Park Day


National Banana Split Day

Banana-Split Cheesecake

Ingredients
Crust:
1 cup packaged chocolate cookie crumbs (such as Oreo)
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon butter or stick margarine, melted
Cooking spray

Filling:
3 (8-ounce) blocks fat-free cream cheese, softened
1 (8-ounce) block 1/3-less-fat cream cheese, softened
1 (8-ounce) carton low-fat sour cream
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe banana
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 large eggs

Toppings:
1/3 cup canned crushed pineapple in juice, drained
1/3 cup strawberry sundae syrup
1/3 cup chocolate syrup
1/4 cup chopped pecans, toasted
16 maraschino cherries, drained

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 325°.
To prepare crust, combine first 3 ingredients in a bowl; toss with a fork until moist. Press into bottom of a 9-inch springform pan coated with cooking spray.

To prepare filling, beat cheeses and sour cream at high speed of a mixer until smooth. Add 1 1/2 cups sugar, banana, flour, and vanilla; beat well. Add eggs, 1 at a time; beat well after each addition.

Pour cheese mixture into prepared pan; bake at 325° for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until almost set. Cheesecake is done when the center barely moves when pan is touched.

Remove cheesecake from oven; run a knife around outside edge. Cool cheesecake to room temperature. Cover and chill for at least 8 hours.

Top each serving with 1 teaspoon pineapple, 1 teaspoon strawberry syrup, 1 teaspoon chocolate syrup, 3/4 teaspoon pecans, and 1 cherry.

After BananaSplit Day, we now have ......

Healthy Lifestyle Day.

[ConorMacNessa]

Good morning, Amy - Happy Monday!

[DollyCali]

MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE

... the most dangerous cake recipe in the world.

4 tablespoons cake flour or all purpose (plain, no self-rising)
4 tablespoons spend ( i would do REAL sugar)
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips(optional)
A small dash of vanilla flavoring
1 microwaveable coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well
Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.
Add the chocolate chips and vanilla flavoring... and mix again.

Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts. The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired. EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).

And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!

[OESY]

Have a Healthy Lifestyle Day!







8 Seconds
Bruce Lee




Traveling through the monstrous "Aegialis" 7c+
Georgios Chaziris




Pine Mountain Feb 2008 III
Erik Lewandowski


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[OESY]

National Park Day at the Women's Convention

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[jaycee]

~~Kiss and Makeup~~

[yorkie]

I didn't mean it, sis, honest!

Powerless

We LOVE making up!

Mothers always forgive

And NOW,

For

The

Kiss and Make-up

Picture of the Day...

Ya think they WILL?

[Billie]

As if that opening banana split wasn’t bad enough, now you give us banana split CHEESECAKE?! You are bad! But your illustrations are terrific! Cute kiss and beautiful national park, and yeah, I’ll try to overlook the cheesecake and just have an orange. :)