Tuesday at the Table

Random question: Do you know Nanaimo Bars?? According to Wikipedia, "The Nanaimo bar is a dessert item of Canadian origin popular across North America. It is a bar cookie which requires no baking and is named after the West Coast city of Nanaimo, British Columbia. It consists of a wafer crumb-based layer topped by a layer of light vanilla or custard flavoured butter icing which is covered with melted chocolate made from chocolate squares. Many varieties exist, consisting of different types of crumb with different flavours of icing (e.g., mint, peanut butter) and different types of chocolate. Two popular variations on the traditional Nanaimo bar involve mint- or mocha-flavoured icing."

Ok, so if that's an official(ish) definition, my one word description is, "Yum."

And I have made them on numerous occasions  usually the original recipe, but also those mint and mocha flavored, and even peanut butter.

Well, it's my coworker's birthday today, and she looooves Nanaimo Bars. But this year, I went out on a limb  and tried another twist . . .

Source: joandsue.blogspot.ca via Jo and Sue on Pinterest

And that would be Nanaimo Bar Cheesecake. Thanks to Jo and Sue who shared the recipe on their blog, and also included the recipe for the original bars. I did make one change to my cheesecake - using the bar portion of the recipe for the cheesecake base, because really, it's that graham + coconut + cocoa base that makes a Nanaimo Bar a Nanaimo Bar for me.

Meanwhile, it IS fall, and I'm really hoping you have some fall recipes to share and of course some fall projects. Here's a little one I pulled out last night for the new season.

The linky below will be open all month, closing at the end of the day on October 31. Then later that week, I'll choose a random winner from all the link-ups, and treat that person to a little surprise package from Sewing Summit!