Emily: Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars & Sweet Strawberry Jam Cupcakes

A couple weeks ago I made Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars, and they were delicious. I found the idea on Pinterest as usual.  However I didn’t use the exact recipe from the site. I used the Nestle Toll House Original Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe and a Cheesecake recipe from a website I found on Google. The ratio of cookie-to-cheesecake is one batch of cookie dough to two batches of  cheesecake. For the cookies I suggest using mini semi-sweet chocolate chips because it makes it easy to press into the pan. If you do decide to use the mini chips, you can add at least half a cup more. I just eye-balled it. For this recipe I have no suggestions because they were simply perfect.

I also made Sweet Strawberry Jam Cupcakes. It’s a vanilla cupcake with a homemade strawberry jam filling and a vanilla buttercream with strawberry jam mixed into it. I suggest using your favorite vanilla cupcake recipe. If you don’t have one, I’ve attached the one I used. To fill the cupcake just take a small ice cream scoop or a teaspoon and scoop out as much of the cupcake as you want to fill. Add as much of the strawberry jam to the buttercream to taste. You can also put any topping you would like to garnish the cupcake. I put a slice of strawberry on top, but a drizzle of chocolate would make it look pretty good.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars.
Image shared by Emily &
located at divascancook.com.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars:

1) Once you have made the cookie dough, take about half the dough and press a thin, even layer into a greased 13x9 pan.
2) Then double the cheesecake recipe and spread the cheesecake mixture evenly across the bottom layer of cookie dough.
3) Then take the remaining cookie dough and put pieces of it on top of the unbaked cheesecake until it mostly covers the cheesecake.
4) Then place in oven heated to 325 degrees for 35-45 minutes or until cheesecake is set and cookie is a golden brown.

Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies:  https://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/18476/original-nestle-toll-house-chocolate-chip-cookies/

Cheesecake:  http://divascancook.com/chocolate-chip-cookie-cheesecake-barsrecipe-cookie-dough/

Vanilla Cupcake & Vanilla Buttercream:  http://www.browneyedbaker.com/vanillacupcakes-vanilla-buttercream-frosting/

Sweet Strawberry Jam Cupcakes.
Image located by Emily.

 

Clancy: Envisioning the Nanosuit

Some may believe that nanoparticles - let along their weaponized applications - are the stuff of crude science fiction.  However, as recent sources and TED Talks suggest, nanotechnology is an emergent reality that will bring massive innovations across various sectors of modern society.  Clancy shares thoughts on how he is tapping into the promise of the field below:

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A nanosuit, as worn by a soldier from Crytek’s video game Crysis. 
Image located at crysis.wikia.com.

The idea of this particular [nano]suit is to fully enhance the user physically and mentally, making them 100% effective in a combat situation. The suit is specifically a type of hybrid nanosuit that weighs in at approximately one thousand pounds. The suit has four layers that all correspond with each other to keep the user functioning at physical capacity. The first layer actually acts as two; it is the contact layer. This means it is the layer that is responsible for reading the user's bio-electrical signals. The layer is crucial to the suit's design. It is comprised of, on the inside, a crystal compound that can speed up bio-electrical signals and ping them through the suit to a neural transmitter. The first layer on the outside acts as a foundation for the second layer. The first layer resembles a wetsuit. Once the user puts the first layer on, it is filled with a carbon-based gel. This serves as the sub-layer and a median for the active nanite life support system. The second layer is a titanium nano-composite material which is used to construct nano muscle packs. The muscle packs will act as a secondary choice to exo skeletons, having the same functions and properties as a traditional exo in a much more compact, natural-looking, and normal-feeling system. The second layer will have the capability to transfer power to the inner and outer layers. The third and outer most layer is titanium alloy plating, which is magnetically bolted to the second layer. The plates are between three and four inches thick. The third layer has a piezonucleic coating of gold and lithium-hydrate. This is woven into the third layer at 14 nano meters. This coating produces energy for the suit. My hypothesis is that it can also project energy, forming a shield around the suit.

Thoughts or questions for Clancy? Please post in the comments section below!