Grandma's Cheesecake

This is a family favorite, especially during the holidays!

Crust:
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 stick butter, melted

Combine graham cracker crumbs, sugar and melted butter. Press into a lightly greased 9x13 baking dish and bake at 350 degrees for 10 - 12 minutes. Cool slightly.

Filling:
5 - 8oz. blocks cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
5 eggs, room temperature
2 tsp. vanilla

Beat cream cheese blocks in a mixer, gradually adding sugar. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add vanilla and then pour over cooled crust. Bake at 300 degrees for 50 - 60 minutes. Cool for about 5 minutes before adding topping.

Topping:
3 cups sour cream
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

Mix all ingredients together and then pour over partially cooled cheesecake filling. Bake at 300 degrees for 5 minutes.

White Chocolate Fruit Salad

From my cousin, Mary Ann. Her words? To die for. :o) Enjoy!

-1 large can pineapple tidbits in its own juice
-2 regular cans Lite Fruit Cocktail
-2 regular cans mandarin oranges
-1 cup lite sour cream
-12 ounce tub lite cool whip
-2 small boxes instant Jell-O White Chocolate Pudding

Drain pineapple and save 1 ½ cups juice (you may need some of the juice from other cans to make the 1 ½ cups). Mix pudding with juice in a large bowl. Mix in sour cream. Mix in cool whip. Fold in fruit. Refrigerate.

*If you use fat-free sour cream, fat-free cool whip and sugar free pudding, this will count as 3 Weight Watcher points per cup.

Cookie Salads

My sister is in love with these two recipes. What could be better than cookie SALAD?

Keebler Cookie Salad
-2 c. buttermilk
-2 (3 oz. each) pkg. instant vanilla pudding
-1 (16 oz.) Cool Whip
-1 (13 oz.) pkg. Keebler Fudge Stripe Cookies, broken into pieces

-2 small cans mandarin oranges, drained well

Mix buttermilk and puddings. Fold in Cool Whip, add oranges slices and cookie pieces. Chill and serve.

*Susie says not to add the cookie pieces until ready to serve. It keeps them crunchy, although she says this is still good the next day.

Oreo Cookie Salad

-1 (8oz) tub cool whip
-1 jar marshmallow fluff
-1 package oreo cookies, broken into pieces

Fold together and serve!