PB Fudge and Xmas Oreos

For my neighbor gifts this year I chose to make Peanut Butter Fudge (my hubby also loves this so I made some for him too) and Christmas Oreos. For the Oreos I used THIS recipe, but used Red Velvet Cake and tinted the frosting green-very festive! I put the cookies and fudge in Christmas Tupperware and everyone loved them!

PB Fudge

2 sticks of butter
1 can evaporated milk
5 cups sugar
2 cups butterscotch chips
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
Pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Melt butter in saucepan. Add sugar and canned milk. Bring to a boil and boil about 15 minutes. test in cold water (get a small bowl of cold water, drizzle some of the hot mixture into if. If you can pinch it together into soft/firm ball and it stays, then you are good). remove pan from heat and add the peanut butter, salt, butterscotch chips and vanilla. Mix well. Pour into a 9X13 pan lined with wax paper. Once cook, pull the fudge out and cut into pieces.

Chocolate Cheesecakes

It's calling your name...(insert your name here) Eat Me, Eat Me!!!

It's a good thing that all of my friends love cheesecake, I get to try so many different flavors and combinations! My friends birthday was last month, so in keeping with tradition of baking them a cheesecake I made mini cheesecakes! I have seen these mini graham cracker crumbs crusts made by Keebler and decided to use them. I used the same recipe for my Cheesecake Nibbles found HERE , but I used the pre-made crusts instead of making my own. For the chocolate layer on top of the cheesecakes I used a chocolate ganache recipe. These were so easy to make and make a great gift!

Chocolate Ganache:

½ Cup semi sweet chocolate chips
2 Tablespoons heavy cream

Place chocolate chips into a microwave safe bowl and heat in 30 second intervals until melted and smooth. Stir in heavy cream until shiny and smooth. Spoon ganache over each cheesecake.

P.S. If you make these cheesecakes, give them to your friend and find out that she can't eat chocolate because she's breastfeeding and chocolate upsets her baby, she can just peel the chocolate layer off and give it to her husband!