Girl Guide Cookie Cheesecakes.

It's Spring, which means Girl Guide cookies are out! Here in Canada, we only have two types of cookies, Mint thins in the Fall, and chocolate/vanilla sandwich cookies in the Spring. I splurged this afternoon and spent 4 dollars for a box. Yikes! I remember selling them for 2 dollars (or as my Dad says, he remembers selling them for two dollars). But, that was 20 some years ago.

Before I start the recipe, i want to show you the April Fools joke Mother Nature played on us today. I took this picture on my walk home this evening, at about 6 pm. 

That was all grass yesterday. It started at about 10:30 and dumped about 2 inches, and then turned to rain at about the time i was walking home. Now at 11, it is just plain messy out. 

Because I was planning on baking tonight, i decided to forgo making dinner. Yup, i actually broke down and spent money to have food delivered to my house. And a pizza, no less. Usually when i order in, i get a chicken dinner from Swiss Chalet, yummy, healthier, enough for two meals, and no delivery charge. Well, tonight, i spent 20 of my hard earned dollars on this. 

A nine inch pizza and garlic fingers, good thing is that there is enough for lunch tomorrow and Sunday, since i only ate 1/4 of each :-) and it came with pop, something sugary i can give to K next time he visits, just before i send him home...hehehe. 

Anyway, enough of my babbling, on with the cheesecake! I got this recipe from the Girl Guides of Canada/Guide du Canada  website, which was posted on the cookie box. It was donated by a troop that is about 40 minutes outside of my city, in a town called Hampton, New Brunswick. 

Girl Guide Cookie Cheesecakes.

6 vanilla cookies.
6 chocolate cookies.
2 pkg (8 oz) cream cheese, softened.
1/2 cup sugar.
1 tsp vanilla.
2 eggs.

Line 24 muffin tins with paper liners. Split cookies in half, scraping off icing. Put a half cookie in each tin.
Mix cream cheese, vanilla and sugar until well combined. Add eggs and mix well.
Pour over cookies, filling each tin 3/4 full. Bake 20 minutes at 325 F.
Top with topping of choice. Caramel, chocolate, fruit, etc.

I do not like cheesecake, i made these for everyone else. I did try a bite of one, they taste like cheesecake. My bite was chased by a large mug of water and a cookie. It made the promised 24, but because i was worried i would not have enough, the first pan was smaller than the second. I only have one muffin tin, so i had to cook them in two rounds. I put them in these really cool liners i got after Halloween, i love hitting post holiday sales! 

Again, i don't like cheesecake, so i passed a few off to a tester. He said they would be better with a fruit topping, like cherry or blueberry. I just put a small amount of chocolate on them, he said the cheesecake was overpowering the chocolate (but that was not a bad thing to him, because he loves cheesecake). He ate six, and took 4 more to go. I also fed him a quarter of the pizza and garlic fingers, just to be sure he gets some real food in there to.

This is the third time i have made cheesecake, and i have discovered it is not as daunting as a lot of people think. This recipe was a simple one that i may go back to for a full sized cheesecake, in a bigger pan and with some fruit it would make a nice dessert.

When i was a kid, i spent three years in Brownies and another three in Girl Guides. I sold plenty of cookies (and my Dad even more), and earned many badges. I skipped the Pathfinder years when i was in Junior High because we had moved and there was no group in my area, but became a Junior Leader in 10th grade and then a Leader when i turned 18. All my badges are sewn on my camp blanket, my sashes from Brownies and Girl Guides and all the patches i received at events as a Junior Leader and Adult. I still have my camp blanket packed away, along with my pins and camp hat. And while digging, i even found my old neck ties from Girl Guides and Junior Leaders.

So many memories of camping and adventures. I left Guiding because i started working, i worked overnight shifts and could not be relied upon to be everywhere i needed to be. Since then, i have worked jobs that take me into evening shifts to often. It is something i really want to get back into doing, so i am thinking next Fall i may try to work with my scheduler to see if i can join again. I really miss the camping adventures, especially the adult trainings, we had so many laughs!

Hope everyone had a great week, and that Mother Nature did not play any mean tricks today like we got here!! Happy Weekend!