Pumpkin Maple Butter Swirled Cheesecake Bars

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Pumpkin Maple Butter Swirled Cheesecake Bars

Fall is here and that by default reads pumpkin to the food blogging world, or well at least to me! So when Sprouts sent me their new pumpkin label ingredients I was very excited to use them in my baked goods. I made some pumpkin donut muffins (will share the recipe soon) and these maple pumpkin butter swirled cheesecake bars. With just seven ingredients total, these cheesecake bars are an easy way to dive into fall flavors this month!

I am a big cheesecake fan. Probably the kinds who would join Chandler and Rachel with a fork, eating cheesecake off the floor (yes, I am a Friends’ nerd). A well baked cheesecake is the perfect dessert for me with its smooth and creamy texture and buttery graham cracker crust. And while I love cheesecake, the process of making it and the wait involved always makes me think twice before I embark on that adventure.

Enter these cheesecake bars. They are so easy to make, and the results- delightful. One of my friends, who is not a fan of cheesecake (such people do exist!) said she absolutely loved these. To give these cheesecake bars a fall flavor, I used pumpkin snap cookies instead of regular graham crackers for the crust and swirled some maple pumpkin butter over the top of the cheesecake mixture.

Update November 2019: In case you do not have pumpkin butter, I used this recipe to make a batch of my own: https://barefeetinthekitchen.com/pumpkin-butter-recipe/

You can substitute the pumpkin snap cookies for regular digestive cookies. I like to add a little cinnamon powder and dry ginger powder for added spice. 

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The Shoo Fly Cake

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The Shoo Fly Cake- a moist molasses cake #vintage #recipe #cake

Today I am sharing a recipe that is close to a 100 years old, called the Shoo fly cake.

So, I have a serious disease. I am sure most of you food bloggers/lovers out there have it too. Its this obsessive habit of buying cookbooks. Hoarding on cookbooks.

Even before I started blogging or for that matter cooking I had this fascination for cookbooks. The pictures, the recipes, the stories, the techniques – I loved going through it all. As a child I would flip through my mom’s cookbooks, with not a single intention of cooking, but instead asking my mom why she doesn’t make such and such recipe.

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Shit Happens!

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So today, V plucked (actually snipped) these two beauties from my hair. Some call it a mother’s blessing but seriously I would prefer blessings in another form. V says its a sign of maturity. I think its a sign of becoming wiser. (Why else would judges wear white wigs, if that’s not what its supposed to mean.) The strange part, one of the two white hairs I plucked was actually still dark brown from the roots, but white at the tips, kind of like it decided mid way that it preferred being dark brown rather than white.

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In India, we have something like the evil eye, we just call it boori nazar (which literally translates to the same), and V and I have come to the conclusion that’s what has happened with me (well, I came to the conclusion, he just agreed :/ ). My hair has been a target of an evil eye (most likely, its my own evil eye, but lets just pretend it’s not).

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