Spicy Chicken to warm up the day

Salsa Chicken slow cooker

Ingredients

4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 cup salsa
1 package reduced sodium taco seasoning
1 can reduced fat cream of mushroom soup (condensed)
1/2 cup reduced fat sour cream

Directions

Add chicken to slow cooker. Sprinkle taco seasoning over chicken.Pour salsa and soup over chicken.Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.Remove from heat and stir in sour cream.

Serve with rice.

NOTES: You may use half the packet of taco seasoning (I have started doing this to reduce sodium content myself)Some slow cookers cook faster than others. The newer ones cook a bit faster and you may have to adjust your cooking time based on that!

Number of Servings: 6

Cupcakes for a rainy day

Chocolate Cheesecake Muffins

2 packages (3 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup of semisweet chocolate chips
1 package of Betty Crocker SuperMoist Devil's Food Chocolate cake mix
1 1/3 cups water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 1/2 oz. cream cheese softened
4 teaspoons of sugar

Heat oven to 350 degrees, line muffin pan with paper baking cups.
Beat 2 pkgs. of cream cheese, sugar and the 1 egg in a medium bowl. Stir in the chocolate chips and set aside.

In another bowl mix the cake mix according to the directions on the back of it - use water not milk. Divide the mixture among the muffin liners. Add a tablespoon of the cream cheese mixture - it is suppose to sink into the chocolate. However, I don't find that it actually does this so what I do is fill the liner about 1/3 full, add the spoonful of cream cheese mixture and then add another spoonful of chocolate on top.

In a small bowl mix the 1 1/2 oz. cream cheese with sugar. You are just suppose to decorate the top of the muffins with this mixture, not ice them, just like a star or a flower or whatever. You can use a cake decorator thing or stick it in a ziploc bag and cut a small whole in the center - it works just as well.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until the spring up when touched. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pan.

A craft a day

Keeps mommy sane :)