Nacho Pie and Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars

I should have made two of these because it was inhaled in 2 point 3 seconds.  It has already been requested as a birthday dinner, high praise in our home!!


Nacho Pie
Recipe from Mommy's Kitchen

Ingredients:

1 lb. ground beef, browned
1/2 cup chopped onion (of course I skipped this!)
1  8 oz. can tomato cauce
¾ cup water
1  packet taco seasoning mix
1  tube crescent roll dough
1 1/2 cup crushed tortillas chips
1/2 cup sour cream (I didn't add this)
1  cup cheddar jack or plain cheddar cheese
additional sour cream for garnish, diced tomatoes and sliced black olives.
Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.  In large skillet brown beef and onion over medium heat until done. Drain off any grease. Stir in tomato sauce, water and taco seasoning. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 - 10 minutes. Separate crescent rolls into 8 triangles. Place in greased 9 inch pie plate points facing towards the middle. You might have to maneuver the triangles a bit at the end and turn some of them side ways, that's OK as long as the pie plate is covered completely. Press onto bottom and up sides of plate to form crust. Seal perforations. Sprinkle 1 cup crushed chips over crust. Top with meat mixture. Using a spatula spread sour cream over meat. (I skipped this step because I don't like sour cream).   Sprinkle the cheese and then remaining 1/2 cup crushed chips. Bake 30 - 40 minutes or until cheese melts, pie is bubbly and crust is golden brown. Cool 10 minutes before cutting. Add a dollop of sour cream, diced tomatoes and black olives for garnish. If the crust starts to brown to quickly cover the pie plate with foil from the bottom and up around the sides to cover crust.

Serve with a salad and your meal is complete.




 Our dessert for FHE was super easy.  We got a bunch of these for Christmas as neighbor gifts:

When I found this recipe I realized it was the perfect way to use up these cookie pouches!

Please forgive my horrible picture, just trust me when I tell you, if you like cheesecake you will LOVE these bars!!!


Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars
Recipe from Mommy's Kitchen

Ingredients:

1 (30 oz.) pkg. of chocolate chip cookie dough (I used two cookie pouches)
1 (8 oz.) packages of regular cream cheese, room temperature
1 egg
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut chocolate chip cookie dough in half. (Or in my case, prepare cookie dough as directed).   Cover the bottom of an ungreased 13x9 inch baking pan or casserole dish with half of the dough, forming a crust. Use your hands for this as if you were filling a pie plate with a homemade pie crust. Bake for 10 minutes.

While baking, beat the cream cheese, egg (or egg substitute), sugar (or no calorie sugar sweetener), and vanilla in a bowl until well blended. Take the crust out and spread the cream cheese mixture on the top being sure to cover the entire top. It will be ooey and gooey and may blend with the crust and this is OK.
Take the other half of the cookie dough and crumble it on top of the cream cheese coating, being sure to cover it all.Bake for 35 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool in the refrigerator for a few hours before serving. Store in the fridge, due to the cream cheese

Note: You can also use other cookie dough flavors instead of chocolate chip. Peanut butter, M & M, etc...