apple pie surprise

Found this awesome recipe on another blog! can’t wait to try!

www.gourmetmomonthego.com

Apple Surprise Mini Pies
makes 12

Ingredients:

1 3/4 C. (1 package) Graham Crackers
1/3 C. butter, melted
24 oz. (3 pkg) Philadelphia Cream Cheese
3/4 C. sweetened condensed milk
2/3 C. white sugar
2 eggs
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
2 tsp. vanilla extract

3 cans apple pie filling

2 ready-made pie crusts (the kind that is just dough that you unwrap, or make your own)
12 half pint canning jars or ramekins
Drinking glass (a little larger than your jar lids), to cut out crust

Directions:
Place graham crackers in ziploc bag and crush.

Pour melted butter into baggie with graham crackers and shake to mix well. Place 2 heaping tablespoons of graham cracker mixture into bottom of a half pint jar and carefully spread around.
For cheesecake layer, beat cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk until smooth. Add sugar, eggs, vanilla, and lemon juice and mix well. Place 1/3 c. of cream cheese mixture into each jar.
Fill jars to the top with apple pie filling (about 1/2 C).

Unroll pie crust. Find a drinking glass or round cookie cutter that is about 1/2" larger than your jar lid and cut out 4 circles. Re-roll remaing dough and cut out 2 more circles. Repeat with other pie crust. If desired, cut small slits or a little shape in the middle of your crust.
Place one cutout crust on each jar and pinch edges to resemble a pie crust. Finish with a light dusting of white sugar.
Place on a cookie sheet (just in case any of them leak, you don't want to clean that out of your oven!) and bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes until pie crusts are browned.

Remove from oven. Tie a small ribbon around each jar, if desired, and serve. I can't wait to make these for our next sit-down dinner, they'd be adorable served to each guest for dessert!

San Francisco

For Deric’s birthday we decided to head to San Francisco for the weekend. We were up in Sacramento for my niece Natalie’s baptism!

I can not believe she is 8 already!!!! She was 4 when I lived in Sacramento with her.

  my favorite restaurant Boudin’s. They have the best sourdough bread bowls EVER! and their Clam Chowder is pretty good too!!! The Aquarium of the bay is awesome! Deric got to touch a bat ray and leopard shark and a sea cucumber and of course the start fish! he loved it! I didn’t touch anything!

Riding the CABLE CARS for the first time! they are not called trolleys! Deric was disgusted with me that in the 2 times I had been to San Francisco I had never gone on them! Its a lot of fun. Its a lot better to ride the cable car than to walk the hills! a lot faster too!

we did drive down Lombard street. I didn’t take any pictures because it gets over pretty fast! I could never imagine driving down that everyday to get to my house!

Alcatraz. awesome tour. totally worth the money! I learned a lot from the 3 hours we were there. It was freezing when we were there. But it was a pretty cool experience.

can you pick out which one is the “full house” house????

in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. I don’t remember who the guy is, he had something big to do with the golden gate bridge! Coit tower. some really rich lady had this building built in honor of the firemen who saved her from the huge fire of the early 1900’s. its pretty cool up top! you can see all of san Francisco! This is Deric up at the top. Alcatraz is the dot in the back! the bay bridge! its actually longer than the Golden Gate bridge and we did actually drive over this bridge!

we had a blast the two days in san Francisco!! such a fun city with a lot of interesting people!