I’m not going to lie to you I love attention. Good attention, the kind I get when I do what I am best at….cook. The holidays are my absolute most favorite time to cook. I love it because I make tons of cakes, pies, pastries, and candy and the entire family gets to enjoy it. About six years ago I found a recipe for Nutter Butter Cheesecake on the back of a package. I tweaked it and served it at Easter.
I figured it had peanut butter, cheesecake, and Nutter Butter Cookies so how exactly could I go wrong? I am not sure if it was the little extra steps I took to tweak the original recipe or the time I take to decorate the top of the cheesecake with whipped cream, crushed up cookies, and one whole cookie in the center of the pie, but my family loved it! The cheesecake is loved to the point of my life being threatened that I better make it on such and such holiday…usually Christmas.
I’ve often joked that it’s not Thanksgiving unless my cousins are arguing over who gets that silly cookie in the middle of the pie. Secretly, I love it. I love the attention and I love giving them something they can’t live without. I’ve been asked for the recipe several times and always give out the original version. Everyone wonders why theirs doesn’t turn out as well as mine. It’s simple really, I give you the version that came straight from the package, then I add some lovin.
The Nutter Butter Cheesecake is so simple to make. One package cream cheese, one tub whipped topping, a cup of peanut butter, a cup of sugar, a teaspoon of vanilla. Mix it all together and pour over a bed of crushed up Nutter Butter cookies that are mixed with enough butter to form a crust. Then of course I put one dollop of whipped cream in the center, stick a cookie in it, and then crush up one and arrange it like a four star chef around the pie. It’s to die for.
This year I would love to get my hands on an Eclectrics® Mixer stand mixer from Hamilton Beach. Besides the gorgeous and sleek design it boasts about a dozen different features and a two piece pouring and splatter shield. The spatter shield would come in extra handy since I’m a bit of a messy cook. That would actually be a great feature for anyone, because the peanut butter tends to make this a messy mixing cheesecake. It’s known to stick to the paddles and fly in the air. It’s also the quietest electric mixer out there so I could freely make my goodies while Sydney is napping.
With all the cooking I do around the holidays having a Hamilton Beach® Mixer has been extremely handy. I honestly don’t know how I would cope without the stand mixer that I currently have or how I did it using a regular hand mixer for so many years. I purchased a Hamilton Beach® Stand Mixer a couple of years ago and it’s given me the freedom to make bigger batches of just about anything, and walk away and get ingredients or do other things while it’s mixing away!
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