Stealing Pinterest Recipes

I'm fairly active on Pinterest.  I like to look at all of the really nice home improvement features - like those gas-lit outdoor pits that are made out of petrified wood with tiki statues carved in the sides, that appear to be lit up and breathing smoke.  I take things like this and immediately port them over into a folder of mine entitled, "My Style."  Which is funny, considering that my "style" is not Polynesian.  Not at all.  Nor will I be purchasing any smoke blowing Polynesian God fire pits for my back yard.  I just think it's cool that someone out there... someone very far away from my Home Owner's Association, has a fire pit such as this.  I should probably create a Pinterest folder entitled, "Not Approved by my HOA".

But I digress.  I also steal a lot of recipes from Pinterest and I port these recipes into a folder entitled, "Recipes to Try".  My dear husband pointed this out to me tonight, when he asked me if I had "made" this.  "This" would be referring to this wonderful recipe that I stole from Pinterest called, Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars http://cookiesandcups.com/sopapilla-cheesecake/ .  I told him that I had.  If this doesn't sound like a trick question to you, then you are not alone.  I did not understand the trickery of this question either, until my dear husband corrected me and said, "Didn't you get this recipe from Pinterest?"

"Well, yeah."  I said.  "That's kind of a requirement for Pinterest Dinner Night." 

Just for clarity, for those of you who are, for whatever reason, subscribed to random bloggers but not to Pinterest, Pinterest does not charge a fee for membership, nor does it charge you for the recipes you steal.  Just the way this blog will one day end up pinned on Pinterest [spoiler alert!], anyone who puts their stuff out onto the world wide web, is subject to the possibility of someone pinning your most intimate thoughts, nekkid photos and RECIPES, onto Pinterest.

"Well it's not an original recipe then," he said.

"No," I said.  "It was someone else's recipe.  Now it's mine."

The Oldest Girl chose this recipe for our Pinterest Dinner Night at home.  The only deviation I made from the author's original recipe, was to add an egg to the "cheesecake" portion of the bar.  I also used the 1/3 less fat version of cream cheese.

Ingredients:

2 cans Crescent Rolls

2 boxes Neufchtel (light cream cheese)

1 cup granulated sugar

1 t. real vanilla

1 raw egg

1/2 stick real butter

cinnamon/sugar (1/2 c. granulated sugar mixed with 2 T. ground cinnamon)

Preheat oven to 350.  Spray a glass 9x13" pan with nonstick cooking spray.  Open 1 can of crescent rolls and lay flat on the bottom of the pan, pressing to meet sides and corners.

Mix together cream cheese, 1 cup sugar, vanilla, and egg, until well blended.  Pour over flattened crescent rolls.  Open second can of cresent rolls and lay over cream cheese layer.  Melt butter in microwave for 10 seconds.  Drizzle over top of crescent dough.  Sprinkle top with cinnamon/sugar mixture.  Bake uncovered for 30 minutes.

This is great served with a giant glass of 14 Hands Hot to Trot red blend.