People Are Sharing Pics Of Nearly Perfect Desserts, And Here Are 30 Of The Most Aesthetically Pleasing

i have, but i find the texture to be less creamy. i DO sub in one block of Neufchâtel (low fat cream cheese) for one of the three blocks of cheese called for. i find its looser, creamier texture makes for a VERY forgiving and delicious cheesecake.

as an addendum, my base recipe is Cheesecake Cockaigne in Joy of Cooking. i tweak it the following ways: on the crust, use lowfat honey grahams. use no cinnamon. use a flat bottomed glass to press, and re-press after baking it. In the Cheesecake: 8 oz lowfat cc, 16 oz regular cc. add to the cake 1/2 tsp almond extract, ALONG with the 1 tsp vanilla. The sour cream topping: decrease sugar to 2 tbsp, decrease vanilla to 2 tsp. Top with fresh strawberries, fresh (wild if available) blueberries, mint leaves, and, if desired, other fruit. My buddy and my husband tell me it makes them weak at the knees💖

Thanks Lauren I did catch it ! Right on !

We’re going to invite in waves next year and have a cap. Like invite 10, then any time we get a no we go to the backup list and invite one more.

Lauren, I'm trying to post a picture for the first time, just to give you an idea of how easy this is. Please don't judge, he was 4 and didn't care if it was good. Screenshot...4c3398.jpg

Those cupcakes are ADORABLE! Oh my goodness! The blue frosting waves. All the different bits you made with the fondant. I love them! I still can’t picture doing that myself. For his party Sat I’m going with the legos. Maybe in the future! So cute. I bet your little man squealed and loved those! And I bet you had little blue faced monsters running around. Lol!

Good plan! It'll be great; show those kids a good time and your son will have fast friends. Might I suggest cupcakes? I did Jake and the neverland pirates cupcakes one year. Pipe blue icing through a star tip in wave formation and then just put little fondant characters on each. You could sit and night and shape them while you watch TV. Then everyone gets a cupcake, you don't have to worry about too much or too little cake, and you're not paying a ton of money. They make fun shaped sprinkles too.

Thank you! I hope it goes well with his friends. I hope we can have play dates with other kids now. My son is so sweet and so caring and so empathetic. I know he’d be such a good friend. He’s really funny, so much fun, way more athletic than I ever was (that would be dad genes). I genuinely enjoy being around him, not just mom love, he’s just a great kid. I feel guilty I never gave him a sibling. I worry he’s lonely. For the party, my biggest nervousness is the number of kids and having them swim in our pool. Keeping eyes on 20+ kids to not drown is a big responsibility. If parents drop off and don’t stay I’ll be overwhelmed a bit.

That sounds amazing! All those little things, like the explosions and gem digs will definitely stick in their memories for years I'm sure. I was talking to a parent on friday who was preparing things for her daughter's birthday next week and she was saying how stressed she was, but I said, once that's done and the party starts, you tend to forget that and just delight in the kids excitement.

Lol. Well, I was so dang exhausted from preparing that I was simply done by the time the party started. Oh well! I did my best. If you can afford it, paying for a party out like bowling is worth the money. Soooo much easier. But my kid asked do it to be at home this year. So home it was.