Eema’s Vanishing Cream Cheese Cookies

Mr. Awesome has gotten hooked on the cream cheese cookies from a certain sandwich chain. We tried a ‘copy-cat’ recipe, but it had so many crazy and hard-to-find ingredients that I decided to try tweaking our favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe to make something close to what he was craving. After a few tries, we definitely have a winner!

I call them ‘Eema’s Vanishing Cream Cheese Cookies’ for a couple of reasons. First, I became a grandma last year and we decided that I will be called ‘Eema’ by the littles… so cute and precious to hear that! Secondly, these cookies tend to vanish before your eyes, so you’ve got to be quick to grab one when they have cooled down enough to eat. They are so GOOD! I’m so excited to share this recipe with everyone I know!

You could probably use any dried or freeze-dried fruit as long as it wasn’t hard, like dried bananas. I don’t think fresh fruit would work unless you ‘dry’ it in the oven for a bit before using it… You can probably research how to dehydrate fruit in the oven for some ideas on how to do this.

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Quick and Easy Fruit Dip for Fresh Snacks

I’ve never posted this recipe as it is just so easy but we needed a copy the other day so here it is…

Easy Fruit Dip

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 7 oz jar of Marshmallow creme
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Dairy Free Cream Cheese Icing

One of my kiddos who loves Red Velvet Cake recently requested one for her birthday. We had to make it dairy-free… it was a little work but we succeeded. I used a boxed cake which said it was dairy-free.

I’ll try to update this with a printable recipe card later but you can print out the cream cheese icing recipe and write in the changes.

Cream Cheese Icing

Dairy Free Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz cream cheese (dairy free)
  • 1 stick margarine (dairy free)
  • 1 lb confectioner’s sugar
  • 1 t. vanilla
  • 1 t. Cream cheese flavoring (optional)

Directions:

Cream all of the icing ingredients together and spread on cooled cake.

Sprinkle the top with any crumbs that may have fallen off the cake.

Spinach and Bacon Smothered Chicken

This recipe is so good and it’s pretty easy to make as well. We usually like to use chicken thighs but chicken breast would work just fine. You can also bake the chicken and keep the creamed spinach on the side if you have picky eaters.

Smothered chicken, mashed sweet potatoes, loaded lentils, and avocado
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Pepper Poppers

This is a recipe we make quite a bit. One of my older sons actually brought some sweet mini peppers to the house one day and made the poppers with the sweet peppers instead of the usual jalapenos and they were AMAZING!

One of the younger boys loves to make these so he takes on the task of getting them ready for the oven whenever we need to make them.

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