Inside Out Apple Pies. This dessert is part of a larger meal "A Taste of Autumn" where every single dish was made using "edible" or natural "bowls.
" That post is my entry for Project Food Blog Round 6. You can check out the post and vote for me here. I'm not a baker. Bakers are precise, careful, planned, and detail-oriented people. They have to be this way, for baking is such a precise art. I'm more of a throw-it-all-together-without-measuring type cook, which can often lead to failures if you're trying to get cake to be a certain texture, a crust to be flaky, or dough to rise properly.
Apple Pie with Brown Sugar Streusel Topping. I was talking with my brother about what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday (which was a while ago now), and he came to the conclusion that he wanted pie.
An apple pie. I've never made an apple pie before but of course I was up for the challenge, and a bit worried that my apple pie would not be awesome. Actually for the 2 days before I made the pie, I kept trying to lower his expectations of it so he would be happy with it no matter what. But as I smelled it baking, I broke and said okay that smells really amazing. And it was. I didn't want to make a double crusted pie and thought that having a crumbley topping might be delicious. If this sounds good, you might like:Russian Grandmother's Apple Pie-CakeCoconut Cream PieRaspberry & White Chocolate PieThe Most Extraordinary French Lemon Cream Tart Apple Pie with Brown Sugar Streusel ToppingAdapted from Bon Appétit October 1998 & The Essential Baker Make Crust:Blend flour, sugar and salt in processor.
Old-Fashioned Strawberry Pie. Strawberry season!
It’s strawberry season! Whoohoo! Can you tell how excited I am? I mean, amazingly sweet, luscious strawberries are at the market for $0.97 a basket. WOWEEE! We’ve been eating them on our pancakes, over yogurt, drizzled with vinegar in green salads, and neat. Yes, I know that most people don’t cook up the strawberries when they make strawberry pies. Plus, I’ll take any excuse to make a lattice crust. So here’s my version of an old-fashioned, straight up strawberry pie. I have to say, I outdid myself on the crust this time. Old-Fashioned Strawberry Pie Pie Crust 2 1/2 cups unbleached flour 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, chilled and cubed 1 tbsp sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 cup ice water (or more) Filling 5 cups strawberries 3/4 cup golden brown sugar 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp nutmeg 3 tbsp cornstarch pinch salt Preheat oven to 400F.
In a bowl place the flour, sugar, salt and cubes of chilled butter. Wash, halve, and hull the strawberries. Let cool and serve! Good Old-Fashioned Apple Pie at WomansDay.com- Dessert Recipes. Fun Summer Dessert: Watermelon Pie. One of my summertime childhood memories is eating the yummy watermelon sherbet dessert at Friendly’s restaurant.
I loved it, so I decided to try to replicate this dessert for my own kids’ summertime memories! I made some “watermelon pie” for our 4th of July feast this year…to great success! My 4-year-old daughter loved it – like mother, like daughter! She saw it in the pan before I sliced it up…at that point it was still just a circle. When I started to cut the pie, making the watermelon slices, she exclaimed very earnestly, “Wow!
The best part…watermelon pie was super simple to make! Peanut Butter Pie Recipe. Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Pie (Treats For Co-Irkers) Due to other family commitments on Thanksgiving day, we're having our Thanksgiving dinner this Saturday.
My kids (and their dogs) will be here to celebrate and give thanks for our many blessings, hopefully an Ohio State win over that team from up north being included on that list. GO BUCKS! While I would have preferred to bake the more traditional pumpkin pie for our holiday dinner, several of the kids don't care for pumpkin (I know, it's crazy isn't it!) So this year I made this peanut butter cream cheese pie. Actually, I made three of them and sent some with hubby to share with the co-irkers, because we're also very thankful that he has such a great job and wonderful people to work with.
Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Pie (from the Nestle website) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine the cookie crumbs, 2 TBSPS of the sugar and the melted butter in a medium bowl. Heat 3/4 cup of the cream just to a boil. Combine remaining chocolate chips and remaining cream in small, heavy-duty plastic bag. Killer Peanut Butter Mousse Brownie Pie. I can think of worse ways to die... We’re eating a chilled “pie” made of layers of fudgy coffee brownies, rich airy peanut butter mousse, crumbled Reese’s peanut butter cups and finished with a drizzle of ganache. It’s a well-known fact that sweets are not really my cuppa beer. (I don’t really do “joe” either!) That being said, T-dog loves him some sweets so from time to time I give in and make him something decadent.
This summer he’s been gobbling up cones of chocolate peanut butter cup ice cream from a local shop after we’ve had a hard day of boogie boarding and generally enjoying ourselves at the beach.