Cheeseburger Soup (with Beer)

The weekend was a weekend for cooking and baking!  All new recipes.  Thanks for everyone who tried them out.  :)  We had a Packer - Viking gathering!  (we were out numbered by viking fans!)  Thank goodness the Packers won! 

So what better to make on a Packer - Viking game than CHEESEburger Soup (with beer).  The original recipe didn't call for beer but the soup thickened while cooking and beer cheese soup was another recipe I always wanted to try.  The soup was a hit!  It was gone by the end of the game.

Try and enjoy!

Beer Cheese Wild Rice Soup with beer!

Ingredients
1-2 lbs ground beef (browned)
1 container of Philadelphia Cooking Creme
10 slices of bacon (browned & crumbled - I used microwave bacon)
1 bag frozen hashbrowns
2 lb block of Velveeta Cheese
2-3 cups chicken broth stock
1 can beer

Instructions
1.  Brown hamburger
2.  Cook bacon until crisp then crumble
3.  Melt velveeta cheese and add cooking cream, mix together.
4.  Add chicken broth and beer to cheese, mix well
5.  Mix hamburger, bacon and hashbrowns into cheese, broth, beer mixture. 
6.  Pour into crockpot. 
7.  Cook on high 4-5 hours. 
8.  Serve with fried onions and addtional crumbled bacon if desired. 

Original recipe (without beer) can be found on this website.  http://livinglifeofriley.com/category/my-life/cooking/  Thank you for sharing this!