Thin mint pretezel cheesecake cupcakes and my brand new podcast chef ava maries recipe mixtape podcast

 Dear readers i am proud to announce my new weekly podcast chef ava maries recipe mixtape podcast where each week I dish on famous chefs,  comedians,  influencers,  competition home cooks and people in my own community and I basically host a mini series on recipe read along and latest culinary headlines and I will talk more about episode one 

This weeks episode is all about my plea to get on nbcs password reboot with Jimmy Fallon as a contestant player on the show and my support for his co star, pal and colleague from Saturday night live Chris Kattan who recently appeared on celebrity big brother and was best known for that cross contaminated cake sketch with Carson kressely from queer eye on bravo before netflix took it over then I move on to hellmanns dell club superbowl Sunday recipe contest and then who we are rooting for Los Angeles rams and they won the superbowl and those who rooted the opposing team you got booed In a friendly way I don't mean to yell outside the window but it's the truth. End of story. But in next week's episode I will be talking about hellmanns new project fridge night app, my cookbook contribution to Brian Baumgartner's upcoming cookbook (releasing in September 2022) and a recipe mixtape for vegan chili over creamy vegan grits. So tune in next week for that and please share with loved ones, friends and family and on Spotify now 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/21VN8IWb0xFmK0ZIRWxvPx?si=QgNGMSSXSGGwI3dgSAt7QA&utm_source=copy-link

Thin mint pretzel cheesecake cupcakes 

2 cups crushed girl scouts thin mint Chocolate covered  pretzels 

3 tbl melted butter 

2 8 oz room temperature cream cheese 

2 eggs 

3/4 cup sugar 

1 tsp vanilla 

1 cup cool whip 

12 girl scouts thin mint Chocolate covered pretzels to top cupcakes 

Preheat oven to 375 degrees place cupcake liners in 12 cupcake liners then mix crushed girls scout pretzels and melted butter and divided among 12 cupcake liners onto bottom of the cup. Press firmly to pack it in. Bake 10 minutes 

In a bowl of hand mixer beat cream cheese and sugar until creamy add eggs one at a time and vanilla and mix to combine well.  Fill each Muffin cup until almost full bake 12 to 15 minutes or until jiggly but set cool on rack then refrigerate until ready to serve top with cool whip and pretzel chocolate