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Decadent Chocolate Pecan Pie

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This recipe caught my attention because it was different from the other chocolate pecan pie recipes I have made in the past. Taken from Paula Deen magazine, it has a layer of dark chocolate as the bottom layer. I couldn’t even wait until it cooled off before tasting it. It is scrumptious. Took a couple of pieces to a friend who is packing to move to Denver and she loved it.

1 unbaked 9″ pie shell

Preheat oven to 350.

2 (4 oz) bars bittersweet chocolate, chopped *(I didn’t have any on hand, but had a 10 oz package of 60% cocoa bittersweet chips so used 3/4 of that package instead. Worked perfectly)

1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

3/4 cup light corn syrup

1/2 cup light brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

4 large eggs

2 tables melted butter

1 teas vanilla

2 cups chopped pecans

1/8 teas salt

Melt the chocolate with the whipping cream in the microwave in 30 second intervals until chocolate is melted. Stir until mixed well. Pour chocolate mixture in to the unbaked pie shell and chill for 30 minutes,  Mix the eggs, sugars, syrup, butter, vanilla, salt together and then fold in the chopped pecans. Pour over chilled chocolate layer and bake in preheated 350 oven for 1 hour. (Mine only took 45 minutes). Cool completely before serving.

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Strawberry Cream Pie

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Taking a break from pulling all the white shorts, white capris and white shoes out of my closet until they come back out next Easter, I decided that I earned something sweet. Putting away all my linen clothes is enough to put me over the edge. So,  I sat down and began to look for something that sounded refreshing and yummy.  Since it is getting to the time that the strawberries won’t taste as sugarery and sweet, I want to make use of them before they go away for a few months. This recipe caught my eye. Just this morning pulling out my recipe for cream cheese pound cake, I ran across this same recipe in another cookbook, and lo and behold, here it is in a 2012 Southern Living also. So it must be good.

Different from a traditional strawberry pie…well, you’ll see!

3 tables cornstarch

2 tables flour

1/4 teas salt (I have always wondered, since it only calls for 1/4 teas, would we notice if I skipped it altogether?) Think I will be daring and try it without.

1 cup sugar, divided

3 cups half and half

6 egg yolks (note to self, take extra Lipitor tonight)

2 teas vanilla

1 (9oz) package chocolate wafer cookies

1/2 of a (4 oz) semisweet chocolate baking bar, chopped

1/2 cup butter, melted

1 qt fresh strawberries

1/4 red currant jelly (I have seedless raspberry, so will use that)

1 tables orange liqueur (only have raspberry liqueur so will use that)

Whisk together first 3 ingredients and 2/3 cup of the sugar in a heavy saucepan. Whisk together half and half and next 2 ingredients in a small bowl. Gradually add to cornstarch mixture, whisking constantly.

Bring to a boil over medium heat, whisking constantly for 1 minute.

Remove from heat and transfer to a bowl; cover and chill 4-24 hours.

Preheat oven to 350. Pulse wafer cookies and chopped chocolate in a food processor 8-10 times or until finely crushed. Stir together cookie crumb mixture melted butter and remaining 1/3 cup sugar; firmly press mixture on bottom and up sides of a lightly greased 9″ pie plate.

Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and cool about 30 minutes.

After 4 hours, spoon chilled half and half mixture into crust. Cut strawberries in half and arrange around center to the outer edge of pie. Use all strawberries to top the creamed mixture.  Using a small saucepan, heat jelly 2-3 min or until melted. Brush jelly mixture gently over strawberries. Chill, uncovered, 30 minutes or until ready to serve

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Strawberry Pie

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The sunshine that is so gorgeous this time of year just makes me think of strawberry pie. Tonight several young moms are coming over here for dessert after they go for a massage. This is the MOPS ladies (mothers of preschoolers) that sit at my table on Wednesday mornings and I have just grown to love them and appreciate their efforts to grow as Christian wives and moms. They were wanting a night out so I told them to come over here for dessert after they go for massages. What better way to end their night out than with a wonderful strawberry pie and hazelnut brownie cups, with coffee or tea. These pies make wonderful endings to your Easter dinner. Top them with fresh whipped cream and you will be the hit of the day.

2 pie crusts, baked and cooled

2 quarts of fresh strawberries (washed, trimmed and sliced, saving some for top to place on top)

2 cups sugar

2 1/2 cups water

4 1/2 tables corn starch

6 tables strawberry jello (not sugar free, it won’t work)

Place the water, sugar and cornstarch in a heavy saucepan. Stir continually being sure to break up the cornstarch so they don’t lump together. When mixture begins to boil and becomes thick and clear, take off the heat and stir in the strawberry jello and stir until well blended.

Fill each baked and cooled pie shell with strawberries, dividing between the two pie shells. Pour half of the jello mixture onto each pie, being sure each strawberry is covered with some of the jello mixture. Place in fridge to cool and top with whipping cream, right before serving.photo

 

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Chocolate Buttermilk Pie (Micah, this is just for you)

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I couldn’t help but post this. One of my favorite pies is buttermilk. I don’t like buttermilk, but you never know this pie is made with it in there, for all the butter and eggs. I just saw this on Just A Pinch web page and it will be the next pie I bake this week.

 

2 unbaked pie shells
2 stk butter, room temperature

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3 3/4 c sugar
1/2 c flour
1/3 c cocoa powder
6 eggs
1/4 tsp salt (optional)
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 c plus 2 oz. buttermilk

Combine sugar and butter and mix until well blended. Beat in the eggs and mix well. Whisk in flour, cocoa and salt until mixture is blended. Add vanilla and buttermilk stirring until all is blended. You can mix all of this by hand or hand mixer if you desire. Pour into pastry shells and bake at 350 for about 45 minutes. Cool before slicing and adding delicious whipping cream to the top.