CHEESECAKE + OREOS = AMAZING.

What do you get when you mix the best cookies on Earth with cheesecake? Well, you get something that resembles these delicious morsels. Adopted from Martha Stewart's Cupcake Book, Handle the Heat discovered the perfect mixture between Cookies and Cream and Cheesecake Cupcakes. These bite size cupcakes are perfect servings and I am sure I am going to give this recipe a shot.

Cookies and Cream Cheesecake Cupcakes

Ingredients:

42 creem-filled sandwich cookies, such as Oreos 

(30 whole and 12 coarsely chopped)

2 pounds of cream cheese at room temperature

1 cup of sugar

1 tsp of vanilla extract

4 large eggs at room temperature, lightly beaten

1 cup of sour cream

A pinch of salt

Directions:

 1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners. Place 1 whole cookie at the bottom of each lined cup.

2. With an electric mixer on medium high speed, beat cream cheese until smooth, scraping down bowl as needed. Gradually add sugar, and beat until combined. Beat in vanilla.

3. Drizzle in eggs, a bit at a time, beating to combine and scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Beat in sour cream and salt. Stir in chopped cookies by hand.

4. Divide batter evenly among cookie-lined cups, filling each almost to the top. Bake roatating pan halfway through, until filling is set, about 22 minutes. Tranfer to wire racks to cool completely. Refrigerate at leas 4 hours (or up to overnight). Remove from tines just before serving.

Enjoy!

THOUGHTFUL THURSDAY.

Ever thine.

Ever Mine.

Ever Ours.

Ludwig van Beethoven

(Love Letters of Great Men)

ONLY ONE CHANCE.

Love it or hate it; it's your choice, but this is the world your living in. So enjoy it while it lasts, do something to protect it, and live it up! You are the soul keeper of your joy and misery, sorrow and happiness.

If you don't like the road your traveling down, then do a U-turn before it's too late. Take hold of the steering wheel and stop being a passenger in your own life. Navigate through the life you want to live. You make your own decisions and you choose what person you want to be remembered for being when the adventure ends.

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THOUGHTFUL THURSDAY.

"A dreamer is one whi can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."


-Oscar Wilde-

MAY ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE, EVEN THE ONES THEY LAUGH AT.

Don't Let anyone say you CAN'T, because you can!

Nelson Mandela

spent 27 years in a prison for opposing apartheid in South Africa. After his release, he received the Nobel Peace Price and was elected president.

Babe Ruth

"the Bambino" held the record for the most home-runs in baseball for decades, but still holds the record for the most strikeouts.

Beethoven

 practically lost his hearing and became deaf, but it was then when he wrote some of his most praised and cherished pieces of music.

Abraham Lincoln

completely failed at business, had a nervous breakdown, and lost numerous elections for state and federal positions, yet he went on to become one of America's greatest presidents.

Barbara Streisand

could not read music and also expressed severe stage fright, but yet she still managed to have extraordinary success as a singer and also actor.

Winston Churchill

had a speech impediment and a stuttering problem, but he became one of the most greatest public speakers of his time.

Elton John 

could not write lyrics no matter how hard he tried, but with Bernie Taupin providing the words he composed some of the best selling hits of the era. 

Michael Jordan 

didn't make his high school basketball team, but he still continued to become the number one basketball player in the world. 

Clark Gable's 

studio boss told him that he would never become a leading man in a movie, but he went on to do just the opposite of that. He was the leading man in many movies including the well known, "Gone with the Wind."

Paul McCartney 

was completely unable to read or write a note on a piece of manuscript paper, but he composed countless rock classics and even a symphony. 

Harrison Ford, Jim Carrey, Mike Wallace, J.K. Rowling, Sheryl Crow, and Terry Bradshaw 

all had a certian battle with depression and every single one of them have won. 

Dr. Wayne Dyer 

spent his childhood in foster homes, but he went on to earn a PhD, write books, and also produce seminars that helped millions. 

Oscar Del La Hoya 

was completely afraid of fighting as a child to the point in which he would run away from bullies at school. He eventually faced his fears and went on to become the best pound for pound fighter in the world.

Yanni 

had no formal training and could not read or write traditional notation of music, but he developed a unique form of his own musical shorthand as a child and he managed to compose some of the best selling instrumental music of all time. 

So what's your dream?

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THOUGHTFUL THURSDAY.

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FALLING.

I've fallen out of favor and I've fallen from grace

Fallen out of trees and I've fallen on my face

Fallen out of taxis, out of windows too

Fell in your opinion when I fell in love with you

Sometimes I wish for falling, wish for the release

Wish for falling through the air to give me some relief

Because falling's not the problem, when I'm falling I'm at peace

It's only when I hit the ground that causes so much grief

This is a song for a scribbled-down name

And my love keeps writing again and a gain

This is a song for a scribbled-down name 

And my love keeps writing again and again

And again and again and again and againg

I dance with myself, I drunk myself down

Found people to love, left people to drown

I'm not scared to jump, I am not scared to fall

If there was nowhere to land I wouln't be scared at all

At all

At all

Fall

Fall

Sometimes I wish for falling, wish for the release

Wish for falling through the air to give me some relief

Because falling's not the problem, when I'm falling I'm at peace

It's only when I hit the ground that causes all the grief.

-Florence & the Machine "Falling"

HERE'S TO THE NEXT DECADE.

2010 has arrived and I have a feeling it's going to be an adventurous, life changing, and blossoming year.