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  Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars These Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars, inspired by the Mexican dessert called sopapillas,. 2   packages   refrigerated crescent rolls   or sheets 3   8 ounce packages  Cream Cheese  1-1/2   cups   Sugar  1-1/2   teaspoon   Vandalia  Cinnamon Sugar Topping 1/4   cup   Butter  1/2   cup   white Sugar 2   teaspoons  Cinnamon  Heat oven to 350°F. Next, Spray a 9×13 glass baking dish with cooking spray. Then unroll 1 can of crescent roll dough and press into the bottom of the prepared 9×13 baking dish. Stretch it out to cover the bottom of the pan and pinch together the perforations. Don’t worry if it is not perfect, it will be covered up with the cheesecake layer. After that, pre-bake the bottom sheet in a 350 degree preheated oven for about 7 or 8 minutes. Next, in a medium bowl, beat together cream cheese, 1-12 cups of sugar and 1-1/2 teaspoon vanilla.  Then spread the cheesecake mixture evenly over the pre-baked crescent dough in the baking dish. After that, unroll

All Saints day and Day of the Dead Two holidays that honor our loved that has passed. With cleaning the graves. Placing flowers and enjoying food and memories with our love ones.  Louisiana All Saints  A holiday brought over from the French. It's a Catholic Holiday here celebrate with mass and blessing of the graves.  Day of the Dead  The Mexican holiday celebrating family that has passed with flowers, family and food.  Sugar Skulls 💀 

  Trick or treat—and murder—are on the menu in this first in a new culinary mystery series Life couldn't be sweeter for Tres Amigas Café chef Rita Lafitte, decorating sugar skulls and taste-testing rich, buttery  pan de muerto  in anticipation of Santa Fe's Day of the Dead bread-baking contest. That is, until her friendly landlord, Victor, is found dead next door. Although the police deem Victor's death a suicide, Rita knows something is amiss. To uncover the truth, she teams up with her octogenarian boss, Flori, the town's most celebrated snoop. The duo begins to sift through long-buried secrets and to take full measure of duplicitous neighbors, but the clock is ticking and their list of suspects is growing ever longer. Just as the clues get hotter than a New Mexican chili, one of their main suspects winds up dead. Rita fears that the killer is dishing out seconds—and her order might be  up.  My book pick : this is a fun book to learn more about the holiday with great