Mini Fruit Pies & Simple Organized Living. I love pie. I love eating pie, I love making pie, I love nearly all vartities of pie! The only problem with pie is that the crust always seems to get soggy before we can eat it all — there are just 2 of us you know. So today — as I was contemplating whether or not I should make a pie (and knowing that my husband would definitly want me to make a pie) — I decided to try something new… … mini pies! I figured that if I made mini pies, I could make as many as we needed and I could customize the filling so everyone got their favorite pie. Not sure why I didn’t think of this sooner?
Anyway, mini pies are extremely easy and take less than 20 minutes to bake (half that of most full pies) Ingredients: Pie Crust Dough — I used store bought refrigerated crust but feel free to use homemadeFilling — choose your favorite pie fillings and make mini batches of each one (or use canned filling) Directions: Use a biscuit cutter to create mini pie crusts — cut as many or as few as you want What is your favorite pie? Eat at allies: Samoa M&Blondies. Best Brownies Recipe. Not martha - Leprechaun Trap Cake. This may look like a perfectly innocent cake meant to lure a leprechaun to the top but it has a few secrets.
Secret #1: Beneath the pile of gold coins are fragile bars, when the leprechaun approaches to grab the coins he’ll fall into the pit and be trapped. Secret #2: There is a rainbow hiding inside the cake. The leprechaun will discover this as he eats his way to freedom. Have you heard of Leprechaun traps? I hadn’t encountered these until this year, and I am completely charmed by them. Leprechaun traps are created by kids in order to lure and trap a leprechaun. I decided that my angel food cake pan, with the hole in the middles, would make an excellent shape for a leprechaun trap.
To read the complete how-to for this cake please click on MORE. To form the rainbow in this cake I used the method shown here at Omnomicon which is very simple — separate your cake batter, color each section, then pour it into your cake pan one color on top of the next. So this is what I did. Discoveries made: Frozen Banana Ice Cream Sandwiches Recipe : Giada De Laurentiis. Blue Ribbon Bourbon Ginger Pecan Pie :: Etsy Blog. New Year’s resolution #1: Eat. More. Pie. After having the great honor to be on the panel of judges for the 1st Annual Brooklyn Pie Bake Off Benefit at Spacecraft and sample over thirty handmade pies, I realized that making and eating homemade pie is truly at the top of my personal priorities for the new year, and in life in general.
Wild goals of skydiving or going to the gym every day aside, I think one resolution I can stick to this year is to make time for the sweet, slow things in life, like freshly baked pie, straight from the oven. With its flaky crust, choice ingredients, and impeccable harmony of flavors, Allison Kave’s Bourbon Ginger Pecan Pie was the winner of this year’s contest!
Allison (pictured below, with her boyfriend, Jay Horton, who won Best Sweet Pie for his Apple Cider Cream) was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and grew up on Long Island. She has shared her winning recipe and few insights into her pie-making process with us below: How long have you been a pie-maker? Raspberry Cheesecake Stuffed Chocolate Cookies — Buns In My Oven. This is a compensated review by BlogHer and Kraft. Cookies are always, always, always a big hit around my house. As I’ve said before, my husband eats them for breakfast. He puts on his sad face and whines if a few days pass without cookies in the house. It’s pitiful. When I was contacted to create recipes for PHILADELPHIA brand Cream Cheese I knew right away that a cookie just had to be one of the recipes. I’ve made Cheesecake Cookies before, but I wanted something a bit different.
I checked out a few of the cooking videos on the Real Women of Philadelphia website to see what everyone else had come up with. Ultimately, with all the recent cookie stuffing I’ve seen around the food blogosphere (and right here on this blog), I thought I’d go that route. Chocolate cookies stuffed with a simply flavored PHILADELPHIA brand Cream Cheese filling. My favorite part is the surprise inside. Raspberry Cheesecake Stuffed Chocolate Cookies Ingredients For the cookies: For the filling: Instructions Four. Parispastry.blogspot.com/2011/06/neapolitan-bundt-cake.html. Now I know that the poll's winner (banana cream macarons) are long overdue and macarons have been absent from this blog for a while.
Truth is, I made them yesterday and they failed :(. Being the pesky little cookies that they are, I've decided to put the macarons on hold for a few weeks... at least till my exam week is over. However, a beautiful Bundt cake will take their place this week! I got the inspiration for this cake when I was eating licking a naepolitan ice cream a few weeks ago. It made me reminisce of the three-layered neapolitan cake I made when I just started this blog. A three-tiered cake seemed a little ambitious during 75˚F weather, so I went the easy way and combined the three neapolitan flavors into one big & beautiful Bundt cake. Rating: 4 out of 5. Neapolitan Bundt Cake: adapted from Martha Stewart's Classic Pound Cake Instructions:- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. “You don't think the strawberry center is too red?”
Coconut White Chocolate Chunk Cookie Recipe. Coconut White Chocolate Chunk Cookies Last weekend we finished building our patio and backyard fence. I say we, but Josh did most of the work. I helped with little things, but Josh didn’t want me lifting or getting too exhausted. He is very protective of his pregnant wife and baby:) So I spent most of the day in the kitchen.
These cookies are super soft because I added Coconut Creme pudding mix to the dough. Josh was thrilled to come inside to a plate of warm cookies and a glass of cold milk. Coconut White Chocolate Chunk Cookies Ingredients:1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature 3/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup granulated sugar 3.4 oz. package Coconut Creme instant pudding mix (Jell-O Brand) 2 large eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut 2 cups white chocolate chunks or chipDirections:1. If you like these Coconut White Chocolate Chunk Cookies, you might also like: Parispastry.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-05-20T15%3A04%3A00%2B02%3A00&max-results=10. How long do you think ice cream sundaes have been around for? 50 years? 70 years? … How about 119 years? Yep, that’s right. Ice Cream Sundae Cupcakes: Vanilla Cupcakes from The Complete Magnolia Bakery Cookbook Ingredients for cupcakes:- 1 ½ cup self-rising flour- 1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened- 2 cups sugar- 4 large eggs, room temperature- 1 cup milk- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Ingredients for chocolate ganache:- 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped- ¼ cup heavy cream- 1 teaspoon unsalted butter Instructions:- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Ice Cream Sundae Frosting: My own recipe. Ingredients:- ½ cup heavy cream- 3 tablespoons vegetable shortening - ¾ cup confectioners' sugar, sifted- 1 teaspoon clear vanilla- 3 to 4 tablespoons milk The temperatures are going up, and I'm enjoying it all with ice cream sundae cupcakes! Cookies 'N Cream Oreo Fudge Brownies. Hellooooo, good lookin’! What a way to start the week! :) Last weekend as we were exploring Blue Ridge, GA, we stopped by this charming little bakery. They had all kinds of delicious looking homemade brownies.
Oreo brownies, peanut butter brownies, raspberry cream cheese brownies… *groans* Kevin totally had his eye on the Oreo brownies. We didn’t get any there (we were too busy sampling the fried Oreos) so I promised to make them as soon as we got home. I used this recipe from Picky Palate for Ice Cream Sundae Brownies. I knew I had some Cookies and Cream ice cream and totally had to use it in these brownies!! Cookies and cream ice cream, chocolate chips, and hot fudge… It all gets added to the brownie mix! This thick batter is perfect for layering.. nothing is going to sink to the bottom here!
Oh, baby. Come to mama. Layering the Oreos whole is totally the way to go! All these babies need is a big, huge scoop of vanilla ice cream. I think I’ll get on that. ;) Home | McCormick®