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#23

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Sunday, October 23, 2011, In : Dessert Pies 
Chocolate Mousse Cookie Pie
 
 

I realize that this is extremely decadent, but I had kind of a long week, and at some point I decided that cookies covered in chocolate mousse were necessary. So, to anyone and everyone who saw me eating a sliver of Chocolate Mousse Cookie Pie at 9 am in class earlier this week: I apologize, and I want to assure you that I normally eat a very nutritious breakfast. Also, I have a pretty un-fancy camera, so I have to assemble and photograph my baking experiments ear...
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#22

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Sunday, October 16, 2011, In : Fruit Pies 
Apple Pie
 
 

 Filling

 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)

3 TBSP flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup water
4 - 5 apples sliced 
cinnamon, nutmeg

Melt the butter in a saucepan and whisk in the flour to make a paste. In a separate bowl, mix together the sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and water. Slowly add the sugar mixture to the butter whisking thoroughly until combined. Bring the mixture to a boil and then reduce the heat and let it cook for 5 minutes (whisking all along). Set this aside to coo...
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#21

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Tuesday, October 11, 2011, In : Coffee Pies 
Pumpkin Ricotta Pies
 
 

 This recipe is for a 9" pie version of this, but I baked it into mini-pies because I couldn't decide what garnish would be best (see photos).

Filling
15 oz pumpkin
12 oz ricotta cheese
2 eggs
2 TBSP maple syrup
2 TBSP honey
cinnamon
nutmeg

Blend the eggs and ricotta, then add all of the other ingredients and pour into your mini pie shells (or your full sized pie). Bake at 350 until it's brown and a knife comes cleanly out of the center. 

I served these with: 
maple cream cheese fr...
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#20

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Monday, October 10, 2011, In : Fruit Pies 
Peach Cobbler
 
 

 Summer's making its last stand around here, so I played along this weekend and made peach cobbler with my AC on.
I used THIS recipe, which I loved. I also finally got to use my tapioca flour!

Filling
6 cups peaches (skinned, quartered, sliced)
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup tapioca flour (I used flour not 'quick cooking tapioca' because I don't know what that is, and the internet said they could be used more or less interchangeably). 
cinnamon
lemon juice

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#19

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Sunday, October 9, 2011, In : Dinner Pies 
Leftover Quiche
 
 
I made this quiche using egg whites, spinach and feta. The pie crust recipe I use requires 2 egg yolks, so I always set the whites aside into a big jar (yes, it's gross looking). I use it to paint the crusts of everything I bake, but that doesn't put much of a dent in its contents. Whenever it gets to the point where I'm worried it'll go bad, I make the whites into this quiche. While I suspect that there aren't many people who just happen to have a jar of egg whites lying aro...
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#18

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Dessert Pies 
Apricot Tart

 

Pate D'amande Filling:
3.5 TBSP butter

3.5 TBSP sugar (vanilla sugar if possible)
1 egg
3 TBSP chopped almonds
3 TBSP cream

Very simple >> Cream the butter and add the sugar, eggs, almonds and cream. Ta daa

(Note: Because I was using vanilla sugar, I decided to make a theme of it and add the seeds of a vanilla bean to the cream. )

Pour the Pate d'Amande into the crust and bake until the crust is brown and the filling has set. Refrigerate overnight, then top with apricot preserves and arr...

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#17

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Fruit Pies 

Ginger Pear Pie
 
 
 For the full sized version of this recipe, the ingredients are as follows:

1/2 cup butter

3 TBSP flour

1/2 cup white sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup water

ginger

pears (varies by type, size, and preference)


> Melt butter in saucepan + flour = paste. + [white sugar + brown sugar + water + ginger ]. Bring to boil then simmer 5ish minutes.

> Let cool a bit and then pour over pear slices. Let the mixture sit for 5 - 10 minutes before putting it in the pie and baking it. 

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#16

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Dessert Pies 
Chocolate Mousse Pie w/Oatmeal Butterscotch Crust
 
 

 Crust

1 cup oats

1 cup flour

8 TBSP butter

2 egg yolks

3/4ish cup butterscotch morsels

> mix dry ingredients, mix wet ingredients, combine. Press into pie dish and blind bake until brown.

Filling:

12 oz package chocolate chips

2 cups cream (used separately)

1/4 cup sugar

>melt 1 cup cream and chocolate until thoroughly combined. Let cool to room temperature

> whip cream + sugar, fold the whipped cream into the chocolate mixture. Pour into crust and re...


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#15

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Dessert Pies 
Chocolate Pecan Pie
 
 

 Recipe courtesy of Daniel the Physicist:

Position a rack in the center of the oven, preheat the oven to 375F.

Spread on a baking sheet:

1 cups pecans, I leave them whole, but coarsely chopped if you prefer

Toast the nuts in the oven, stirring occasionally, until golden and fragrant, 6 to 10 minutes. Whisk

until blended:

3 Large Eggs

1 cup sugar

1 cup light corn syrup

5 Tb unsalted butter, melted

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp salt

Stir in the toasted pecans, along with 1 cup semisweet chocol...


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#14

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Chess Pies 
Ricotta & Honey (Melopita) Pie
 
 

 This is what I shall henceforth refer to as a ‘learning pie’. I learned lots of things with this pie. 

1. My oven gets very hot towards the back and hovers around room temperature towards the front. (I suspect that an inadequate seal on the door is responsible for this, and I probably should have put it together sooner that the lovely hot spot that springs up in my kitchen while baking was the silver lining of some kind of sub-par appliance issue. Apartment...


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#13

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Dessert Pies 

Chocolate Coconut Pie
 
 
 I used this recipe as the jumping off point for this pie. 

I halved the ingredients, added coconut flour to the crust and topped it with pecans. The crust should be blind baked and fully cooled before adding the chocolate filling. Be warned, the coconut cooks very quickly, so I covered the edges with tin foil until the center was golden, then uncovered them for the last few minutes.

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#12

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Dessert Pies 
Key Lime Pie with Meringue Topping
 
 

 Filling:

3 cups sweetened condensed milk

1/2 cup sour cream

3/4 cup lime juice

lime zest

Meringue:

egg whites + 3/4 cup sugar (note : I keep a jar of egg whites leftover from recipes where I use just the yolks, so I'm not really sure how many eggs worth of whites this took. It was somewhere around 1 - 1.5 cups. Whip the egg whites until soft peaks form, then gradually add the sugar and beat to stiff peaks. Dollop onto the cooled key lime pie)

> blind bake the cru...


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#11

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Dessert Pies 
Upside-down Peach Yogurt Cake
 
 

 


 
 Again: Technically a cake, but it both looks like a pie and was made in a pie dish so... sort of a pie. 

For the yogurt cake I used the recipe from The Complete Robuchon 

1 stick butter

2.5 cups flour

5 oz plain yogurt

3 eggs + 1 yolk

3/4 cup sugar

1 TBSP baking powder

1.5 TBSP white rum (I didn't actually use rum, but it's in the recipe)

> Line the bottom of the pie dish with thinly sliced peaches & drizzle them with honey. Let this mixture soak while you mix the cak...


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#10

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : In-Between Pies 
Cherry Tomato Pie
 
 
For this pie I  baked the cherry tomatoes before putting them in the crust. Then, for the rest of the filling, I whipped up a mixture of almond flour and cream. I recommend this pie very very highly - however, I suspect a large part of why this turned out so well was that the tomatoes (farmers’ market) were VERY good. (I’m also seeing now that there’s a stem in the filling which I hadn’t noticed… which means that I probably ate that…)


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#9

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Fruit Pies 

Nectarine Pie
 
 
 5 nectarines (varies by nectarine size)

2/3 cup sugar

4 TBSP flour

1 cup heavy whipping cream

almond extract

(vanilla extract)

cinnamon

nutmeg

> In a bowl blend the cream + flour + sugar + cinnamon/nutmeg/almond/vanilla (in whatever combinations and ratios suit you). 

    It’s really best to have a mixer (hand or stand) for this. The texture of the pie is really dependent on this mixture getting whipped until it thickens up - and that’s really tough to do by hand (I have tried and ...


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#8

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Dessert Pies 
'Hurricane Irene' Chocolate Date Pie

 This was a mini-pie experiment. I mainly wanted to (1) create a pie with a chocolate crust to see if it’s any good (2) use up some of the dates from the sweet quiche recipe. 

For the filling I just used the cream mixture from the nectarine pie (flavored with almond extract) and dolloped it over chopped dates. 

For the crust I used a very simple pie crust recipe (butter, sugar, flour, egg yolk, water) and added cocoa powder to it. It was a little more fragi...


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#7

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : In-Between Pies 

'Almost Fall' Carrot Raisin Pie
 
  
 Peel and steam a few big carrots, then soak them in [dark honey + brown sugar] with golden raisins. Drain them and let them sit while you make this sugar mixture: 

Saucepan: Melt 1/2 cup butter + 3 TBSP flour + [1/2 cup white sugar; 1/2 cup brown sugar] + 1/4 cup water. Let cool a bit. You won’t necessarily use all of this - just ladle it onto the carrots and raisins to your liking. (I realize these are  very vague directions)

Add some un-soaked golden raisi...


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#6

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Dinner Pies 
Cumin Mac 'n Cheese Pie
 
 

Ingredients
1/3 cup butter
3 TBSP flour
2 cups milk
cheese (mixture cheddar, mozzarella, parmesan)
cumin, paprika, salt
pasta (mixture of shells and cavatappi)

Blind bake the crust until it firms up, but doesn't quite brown. 

In a saucepan, melt the butter, then add the flour whisking thoroughly. Add the milk and whisk until it thickens. Add the cheese and then pour the cheese mixture over the pasta. Let cool before pouring the mac n' cheese into the pie shell. Sprinkle the f...


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#5

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Fruit Pies 
THE Mango Pie
 
 

 4 mangos

1/4 cup butter

3/4 cup sugar

1/3 cup flour

nutmeg

Slice mangos and strain them while you prepare the rest of the filling. In retrospect: You should save the mango juice that comes off of them - I bet it would be good in something. Like a straw. 

Melt butter > + sugar (mixing well) + flour > Mix (preferably with hand mixer) until the mixture is crumbly looking > Sprinkle it over the mangos and pour the whole mixture into the pie shell. Bake until you smell it, turn off the h...


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#4

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Fruit Pies 
Mini Apple Pie
 
 

 To make mini pies I tend to use the recipe for the full sized pie - I just slice the apples smaller. I’ve never gotten to the end of this without having either too much filling or too much crust. Obviously, aim for the former because you can just eat the remainder. 

1/2 cup butter

3 TBSP flour

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup water

8 apples (depends very much on the size of the apples)

cinnamon

Melt butter in saucepan + flour = paste. + [sugar + brown sugar + water] > brin...


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#3

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Dessert Pies 
Blueberry Almond Cheesecake
 
 

 Crust

graham cracker + almond flour + butter

This is the first time I’ve made a graham cracker crust, and I feel compelled to point out that I don’t own a food processor - so all graham cracker crumbs pictured here were hand-smashed by moi. This is (1) harder than it sounds (2) Not good if you have a paper cut. I added almond flour to the crust because… I had just bought almond flour (think: kids who insist on wearing their new shoes out of the store) and sub...


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#2

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Dessert Pies 
Chocolate-Lined Banana Cream Pie

 Chocolate lining:

2 oz. bittersweet chocolate

2 TBSP whipping cream

Filling:

3 cups milk

3/4 cups sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup flour

(bananas)

Blind bake crust > melt chocolate and cream over simmering water. Spoon into crust and let cool. 

sugar + flour + eggs, meanwhile > heat milk just pre-boiling > Slowly add hot milk to the flour mixture, then transfer back to the saucepan and bring the mixture to a boil while whisking > remove from heat and let cool (whisking so it cools ...


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#1

Posted by Hannah Marshall on Friday, October 7, 2011, In : Dinner Pies 
Approximately Lasagna Pie
 
 

 I improvised my lasagna so I’m not going to even try and guess the quantities of ingredients - but the premise is essentially: put lasagna in a pie crust (complicated, I know). I sprinkled the lasagna-noodle lattice with mozzarella and parmesan. For the first 20 or so minutes of baking I kept it covered with tin foil so the cheese and crust didn’t burn and… voila. I took the sugar out of my pie crust recipe and added a little extra salt so that it suited the ...


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