A Holiday Craft AND a Recipe…hey it’s Thanksgiving Week!

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Thanksgiving week! WooHoo! I’m doing a double post today Peeps, an easy breezy Christmas decorating craft and a YumiLicious pie recipe! And tomorrow…a guest post! I can’t wait!!! First the craft and then scroll down for the pie recipe! (Pie recipe at the bottom of the post!)

First, I found this vine wreath in the attic, you know the brown kind but this one was all…spiky and made me think of…ice.  so I spray painted it silver and sprayed some pine cones silver and teal. Then I got a sprig or two of ice and berries! Poof!

I hung it on my dinning room mirror.  You know, the dinning room that’s all decked out in teal and icy silver and pink?

I think one of these could be spray painted about any color! It took about 5 minutes to put this puppy together.

Linking to a few great blog-parties this week…(Keep scrolling for the recipe!)

Creative types from all over blog-land link up to give you the best ideas!

Also, over at Kimba’s blog, A Soft Place To Land it’s DIY Tuesday! Everyone loves inspiration to Do It Yourself !

Check out Second Time Around Tuesday Blog-Party!

Also, Trash To Treasure Tuesday! Such great ideas all over blog-land today!

And the fun 12 Weeks of Christmas over at Red Writing!

Metamorphosis Monday with Susan at Between Naps on the Porch~

And Melissa over at Inspired Rooms is starting her Holiday Linky Friday’s

Now for the scrum-dilly-umptious recipe…

I was practicing pies to take for Thanksgiving and The Husband LOVED this one. I got it off the Tasty Kitchen website which I’m linking to in just a second!

The original recipe is HERE.

Here’s the recipe as I made it (I only changed a couple of things!)

Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Pie

*2 pkgs prepared chocolate pie crust

*4 pkgs. cream cheese, room temp..

*1  1/2 cup brown sugar, packed

*1  cup creamy peanut butter, divided

*1 teaspoon vanilla extract

*4 lg eggs

*1/4 cup whipping cream

*2  1/2 cups small peanut butter cups quartered

* 1 bag mini chocolate chips

*4 tablespoons unsalted butter

*1/4 cups water

Preheat oven to 350*. Set a rack in the center of oven and on a lower rack, put a small metal pan half full of water.

Beat cream cheese and brown sugar in large bowl until smooth. Add 1/2 cup of peanut butter and vanilla until blended. Add eggs on at a time beating well after each addition.

Add whipping cream and beat until smooth. Then stir in peanut butter cups, being careful not to break them up.

Divide batter in half and pour each half into each pie crust. Bake with the pan of water in the oven until the pies are set, but the center still moves slightly. About 50 minutes. Cool pies.

For topping: Place chocolate chips, water and butter in microwavable bowl and heat at 50 % power for 30 seconds. Stir and continue to heat until chocolate is just melting. (Don’t overheat)Remove and stir in remaining peanut butter. (Taste and add more peanut butter if you want)

Stir until well blended and let cool until it thickens slightly. Spread over top of the pies and place in fridge for 3 hours, or over night…

**Next time I’d half the topping recipe and make the chocolate topping a thin layer. See the photos and how thick the topping is? It wasn’t easy to cut with your fork…

All my recipes are located in the pull-down menu on the left of my blog under: All Things Yumalicious!

Today I’m linking to 3 GREAT foodie-blog-parties… Tasty Tuesday over at Balancing Beauty and Bedlam ~ Tempt my Tummy Tuesday over at Blessed with Grace ~ and lastly Tuesday at the Table at All The Small Stuff~ You’ll find links to a hundred recipes or more with these delightful blogs!

~Love to you my Sweet Friends as we live our legacy~one day at a time~

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