Cheesecake Shooters

I went to my daughter Shauna's house to visit and she gave me one of these little desserts and it was to die for, I cant stop thinking about how wonderful it was!  She has her own blog she posted them on, hers is www.shaunasrecipebox.blogspot.com and she found the recipe on pinterest here: you can see what it looks like

Cheesecake Shooters
8 oz  cream cheese, softened
16 oz  sour cream
1 small box vanilla instant pudding
1/2 cup sugar, plus 1 Tblsp
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 can of cherry or strawberry pie filling
1 pack (not box) of plain graham crackers
3 Tblsp melted butter

In your  mixing bowl combine the cream cheese and sour cream until blended.  Pour in the pudding mix, sugar and vanilla and mix on medium for 3 minutes more.  Place in the refrigerator for at least 15 minutes.

Crush the graham crackers in your food processor until just crumbs.  Add in the butter and 1 Tblsp sugar and pulse until combined.  Place in a small bowl and set aside.
 
In your blender or food processor blend/pulse the cherry pie filling until it becomes syrup (no chunks left) . You can make your own syrup from strawberries, blueberries, etc instead of the pie filling if you have the time.  Set aside.

In the shooter cups, wine glasses or whatever you may be using, first spoon enough graham cracker mixture to cover the bottom.  Spoon or pipe in some cheesecake, then spoon enough syrup in to cover the cheesecake.  Repeat with a second layer of cheesecake. Place a few drops of syrup on top and swirl around for a spiral design using a wooden toothpick or skewer.  I garnished mine with mini Nilla wafers.

Keep cold until ready to serve.

These are so yummy and great for special desserts!

For the nourishing of our souls today:

I love to listen to KLOVE radio and they just played a song just for me, and I think maybe you too!  We all have good days and bad days (good hair days and bad hair days too, ha) and on our bad or hard days we need to be reminded that we are BEAUTIFUL, and I want you to listen to this song, you cant help but feel better after listening to it, I love mercy me , listen  here:
and today look into the mirror and see how beautiful you are!