Our Family Food Favorites: Cherry Mini-Cheesecakes

Mar 25, 2015

Cherry Mini-Cheesecakes

2 (8oz) pkg cream cheese, softened

2 eggs, beaten

1 t vanilla

3/4 c sugar

1 T lemon juice

18 vanilla wafers

1 can cherry pie filling

Beat together cream cheese, eggs, vanilla, sugar, and lemon juice.

Put 18 paper baking cups in muffin tins.

Place 1 vanilla wafer in each cup and top

with cream cheese mixture.

Bake at 350 for 12 to 15 minutes. When cool,

top with cherry filling.

Recipe shared by Karen.

"Saying Grace" by Norman Rockwell

This painting was created for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post’s 1951 Thanksgiving issue. It portrays a woman and a young boy saying grace in a crowded restaurant while the people around them glance in their direction. Rockwell was inspired to create this artwork by a reader of the magazine who saw a Mennonite family praying in a restaurant.

In 1955, the readers of The Saturday Evening Post voted Saying Grace as their favorite ever cover. The painting was sold for $46 million in an auction at Sotheby’s in December 2013. At that time, it set the record for the most expensive American painting ever sold at auction. The $46 million paid for Saying Grace remains the highest known price paid for a Norman Rockwell artwork.