If There Were a Hell for Fat Girls...
It would probably be a lot like my Friday. I spent the entire days making 2 awesome desserts which combined my two favorites- cheesecake and red velvet cake. We had a family cookout on Saturday, and I wanted to make something fun. I remembered the trippy 60's cheesecake we had at Disney, which is basically a tie-dyed cheesecake with a red velvt cake crust. Whoever came up with this idea is my new God. Anyway, I found a few recipes online, and I went with this one because they had already tried it and seemed to have it down to a science. Also, they had really pretty pictures and step-by-step instructions, so I really couldn't screw up if I tried. Well..somehow a little of the red velvet layer ended up popping through the cheesecake layer in the middle, so it left this really weird blob in the middle of my otherwise perfect cheesecake. In order to make it, you only use 1/3-1/2 of the red velvet mix, and a fat girl NEVER wastes food, so I immediately began pondering what to do with the rest. Then I remembered the red velvet cake lollipops I had at a friend's baby shower, and I had my answer. Apparently those things are hot right now, and there were a ton of ideas online. I used Paula Deen's red velvet icing recipe and mixed way too much of it in with the cake and ended up with a gooey mess. I didn't learn until it was too late that you only need enough to keep the cake together, and you don't miss the icing, since the chocolate coating is sweet enough to replace it. I used the Duncan Hines cake mix, which is already really moist, so I don't even know if I needed any icing at all. So, I froze the mixture and froze it again after I formed the balls, and that helped, but then the cake expanded when it thawed underneath the chocolate coating, so some of the chocolate started cracking. I quickly thrust them into treat baggies and laid them on their sides, so they wouldn't slide down the sticks. I'm happy to say both desserts made it to the cookout mostly in tact. I tasted 2 of the cracked cake pops on Friday, and I've had about 5 forkfulls of leftover cheesecake today. Those were my 2 cheats along with a breakfast casserole this morning that had grits. That's it. I made it through the weekend, which was a miracle, because going back home has always provided an obstacle to eating right. I am proud, I must say. I'm posting pics, so you can see the deliciousness that I gave up.
