Pies & Tarts
Apple squares, peach cream pie, and orange cream pie offer different fillings within the pie and tart collection. Pastry and crumb bases provide structure while fruit, cream, or other ingredients shape the finished slice.
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Pastry Crusts
A pastry or crumb crust sets the foundation for its filling. Butter dough, chocolate crumb crust, and rough puff preparations offer different textures for pies and other baked dishes.
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Cake Crumb Pie Crust
Making a pie crust using cake crumbs is a creative way to upcycle leftover cake or enhance your dessert’s flavor. Here’s a simple recipe outline: Ingredients 2 cups…
Company’s Coming Pie
Company’s Coming Pie is pretty great if you’ve got guests on their way. It requires just a few staple ingredients and you can keep canned crushed pineapple on…
Fluffy Key Lime Pie
For a taste of paradise, try this light and creamy confection. It’s low in fat, sugar and fuss. Dessert doesn’t get any easier! Its light green color evokes…
Cranberry Meringue Pie
Sweet, tart, and topped with a cloud of meringue! This cranberry creation is the berry best way to brighten your dessert spread! Ingredients For the Cranberry Filling: 4…
Pecan Cream Pie
We’ve all had Pecan Pie – that sticky-sweet stuff that often graces the Thanksgiving table – but this Pecan Pie is a different thing entirely. It still has that wonderful…
Avocado Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie
Looking for a great combination that will appeal to nutty palettes and chocolate-lovers alike? Try this chocolate bourbon pecan pie (with a creamy lift from Avocados From Mexico)…
Chocolate Crust (Minus Nabisco’s Famous Chocolate Wafers)
Ingredients 40 Nabisco Nilla Wafers 1/3 cup salted butter 1/3 cup cocoa powder (I like Ghirardelli 100% premium) Procedure Put the Nilla Wafers in a 1-gallon, zip-top bag, press out excess air…
Buttermilk Pie
Buttermilk pie is a classic southern custard pie made with basic pantry ingredients. Creamy and rich, it tastes like creme brulee. Easy and delicious. Ingredients 1 9-inch par-baked…
Rough Puff Pastry
Rough puff pastry is remarkably flaky, but can be made much easier and faster than full puff pastry. It’s made more like pie dough. I like to use…
Cherry Cheesecake Pie
Cherry Cheesecake Pie is a favorite family recipe- it’s insanely easy to make and impossible to screw up. If cherry cheesecake and pie had a baby, this would…
