Frozen Peach Cheesecake

EASY PEASY!!!!! If you start with a cookie crust, you're half-way there. This is a variation on the triple berry cheesecake I made a few weeks back HERE.....

But I had frozen pie crust and I was making a banana cream pie and peaches are just coming into season and we were roasting a turkey (outside, this was the one warm day we've had in a while!!!!)..... 

And I wanted peachy, creamy goodness but didn't have enough peaches to make a pie:

BRAINSTORM!!!!!!

I had sour cream and cream cheese (Can you say "staples"??????) :) So I baked the pie crust (but cookie crusts are wonderful for this quick cheesecake!) And then I did this:

FRUIT FILLING:


4 ripe peaches  
2/3 cup water
3/4 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons cornstarch 

 Peel and chop four peaches. Put into small saucepan. Add water. Simmer until peaches are just beginning to soften. Mix sugar and cornstarch together in bowl, add to peaches, stir over medium low heat (just a couple of minutes, I promise!) until thickened. Cool in fridge while you make the cheesey-goodness-filling.

2 8 oz. packages cream cheese
8 oz. sour cream
1 cup powdered sugar

Soften cream cheese. Add sour cream. Soften again if lumpy. (The chilled sour cream decreases the cream cheese temperature, so I put it in the microwave for a minute on the defrost setting.) Add powdered sugar (sift if lumpy) and beat until smooth.

Spread 1/2 cheese mixture into cooled pie shell. 

Top with most of the peach filling. (I scorched the bottom of the pan and with VERY CAREFUL SPOONAGE I was able to rescue about 3/4 of the filling and no burned taste. The trick is "Don't Stir The Bottom!!!!")

Add second half of cheese filling over the peach pie filling and then dot that with the last little bitty smidgen of peachy amazing goodness.... Swirl that in, freeze. Thaw for about 15 minutes before serving.

I used heavy whipping cream to make homemade whipped cream, but even with aerosol whipped cream, this would be delicious! Creamy/peachy/frosty.... All the elements of summer!

And we have TWO gratuitous baby pics today!!!!

First there's our resident Ham-it-Up boy, Finnian:

He's such a little charmer! That frank smile, totally disarming and how cute are those chubby hands?????

And then Ayden had to get into the act by being SUPER CUTE BABY IN WALKER so I had to put him on the blog, too!!!

Note he's got the Elvis lip going while singing "Heartbreak Hotel".... :)  Isn't he adorable?????

And we celebrated Casey (my mother's helper) birthday yesterday...

And here she is, snuggling Ayden last week! I've had Casey with me for thirteen years... she wasn't even two years old when she first came here for daycare and she called me Nana and we butted heads regularly and she is one of the loves of my life.... What a marvelous young lady!

Happy 15th birthday, our beautiful girl!!!!! Love you!

Oh, wait!!! Gratuitous book stuff, too! "Running on Empty" is free this coming weekend, starting tomorrow on Amazon! Go to this link!!!!      TOMORROW.... or Saturday or Sunday and you can get a copy of Anne and Joe's beautiful love story, a story of forgiveness, faith and family... in small town, USA. 

And if you like the book, yes, please, run to Amazon and give it a review if you have time!