The result of warm weather, a picnic, limited pie-prep time, and a love of chocolate. This is a mild, milk-chocolate-pudding-style pie, with a salty crushed-Nilla-wafer crust and topped with bourbon-flavored whipped cream.
Pie-Curious: Weekly Pies
Curious About Pies
I'm an amateur cook who'd like to get really good at making pies. I've opted for the immersion method: between August 2011 and August 2012, I'm making at least one pie per week. On this blog, I'll share my pie progress.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Whole Wheat Berry Turnovers
Not the most visually appealing pie-like things I've ever made, but these mixed-berry turnovers were pretty tasty and made for several days' worth of decadent and quick breakfasts. Also, there's something wonderful about hand pies: you pick one up and take a bite. You never put it back down.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Two Blueberry Pies
Last week, overwhelmed by the amount of blueberry goodness available at my local farmers' market, I made two blueberry pies!
Labels:
blueberry,
cream on top,
double crust,
honey,
sugar on top,
sugarless,
sweet,
United States of Pie,
whipped cream
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Gluten-Free Blueberry Cream Cheese
As promised, this post delves into the mysteries of the Blueberry Sour Cream/Cream Cheese pie.
This is one of my favorite recipes yet. This week's version is gluten-free, by virtue of using, not graham cracker crumbs, but crumbs from Annie's Gluten-Free Ginger Snap Bunnies. Which I expected to be a disappointment, but it's actually excellent; maybe better than the graham cracker version.
The real magic here is the blueberry-cream cheese axis. Sweet, sour, fresh and creamy.
Labels:
blueberry,
cream cheese,
ginger,
gluten-free,
graham cracker crust,
Ken Haedrich,
sour cream,
sweet
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Pie-triotism: Blueberry-Cream Cheese-Sour Cream and Peach-Strawberry
Two pies for a 4th of July picnic. One was blueberry-cream cheese, with a graham-cracker crust; the other, peach-strawberry with a lattice top.
Unfortunately I forgot to take photos of either pie (I really meant to, but the sun-dazed, and beer-dazed, state I was in by the time the pie was served, caused me to forget). So, please see the above photographic evidence that pie was eaten.
It's a photo of a vacancy where a pie once was.
Labels:
blueberry,
cream cheese,
graham cracker crust,
honey,
lattice,
peach,
peach-strawberry,
picnic,
sour cream,
strawberry,
sugarless
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Honey-Sweetened Strawberry Rhubarb
Two baskets of strawberries in the fridge, and three stalks of rhubarb in the freezer. It's strawberry-rhubarb pie time!
Labels:
Carolyn,
double crust,
honey,
strawberry-rhubarb,
sweet
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Honey-Sweetened Cherry Pie
Pretty much my usual crust recipe here, with a lattice top (ugly and a bit fragmented because I was in a hurry and trying to do other stuff at the same time... pies and multitasking don't go well together!). What's really special here is the cherries, which came from pals Melina and Maxamilion's cherry tree.
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