Cheese Cake with Cresent Crust

Confession:  My husband and I both love cream cheese, really love it.  So, when I needed a dessert for small group at our house last night, I did a Google search for "easy desserts with cream cheese" and found this.  Now, I know I haven't posted in a while, but I have record for not being able to make something just as the recipe says.  So here is my version:

Ingredients:

• 1 can crescent rolls (I used reduced fat.)
• 2 8oz packages of cream cheese (I used neufchatel cheese.)
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 egg yolk (I'll probably just use the whole egg next time.)

Directions:
      Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Roll out crescent rolls into the bottom of a 9"x13" pan.  Mix cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and egg.  Pour over crescent rolls.  Bake for 15 minutes.  I think it would be awesome to add some chocolate chips or apples and cinnamon next time.  I served it warm, so it was a little runny, but it firms up after it cools.  It tasted delicious though!

E: 9
A: 10
T:  10

HH: 9

Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

I'm a little embarrassed to show pictures of this cake.  However, we do say that we are sharing our "disasters and delights," so I will.  This cake turned into a little of a mixture of a disaster and delight.  It tasted awesome, it just looked pretty rough.

I used vanilla yogurt instead of oil in the cake and baked it according to the package directions. 

For the icing I combined a few recipes I found.  It looks lumpy because I used fat free cream cheese... if you can get past the texture of the lumps (that are IMPOSSIBLE to get rid of) it ended up tasting pretty good.

Icing ingredients:

• 8oz Cream Cheese (don't use fat free)
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 stick of butter
• 1/4 cup of vanilla yogurt

I just mixed it all together, then refrigerated it.

Even though the icing was lumpy, it was very tasty.  I think I'll make it again with Neufchatel cheese instead and see how that works.

E:  7 (I tried everything to get the lumps out, I even heated the mixture.)
A:  8
T:  8

HH: 9  (He loved the taste.)