Roasted Apple Cinnamon Crumble It’s the day after Christmas and I thought I was done baking sweets. We’ve been baking and eating them for days but I guess I’m just not ready to stop. Doing so would be admitting the holidays are over. Since New Years is still a week away, I feel completely justified in continuing my quest to make the best sweets. This morning I woke up thinking about apples. I happened to have some...
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www.wickedgooddinner.com This is simply the best apple pie in America! Really! Dawn Viola of “Wicked Good Dinner” is an award-winning chef and food-writer. She won the 2009 Crisco National Apple Pie Championship (professional division) for this wonderful Vanilla Vanilla-Bean Roasted Apple Pie. Dawn has also appeared on Food Network, Fox News, Martha Stewart Radio, Cooking with Emeril and has been featured in Desserts...
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Praline Pumpkin Pie Recipe and photos with permission by: Deeba Rajpal (Twitter @vindee) of http://www.passionateaboutbaking.com/ I was on Twitter yesterday and saw another blogging friend post a link to this recipe and one simple line . . . “be still my heart.” And when I saw this recipe I thought…. wow, be still MY heart! The Twitter blogging community is so full of talented chefs, home cooks, photographers...
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Banana’s Foster Cream Pie Photos and Recipe Reprinted with Permission by www.evilshenanigans.com This is such a smart recipe. Take a classic dessert like Bananas Foster and turn it into a creme pie. The writers of www.evilshenanigans.com came up with this on a whim and I bet it will become a classic of its own. Here is the recipe, in her own words: Yield 1-9″ Pie Ingredients: Crust: 1 1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs 1/4 cup...
Read MoreMy mother used to make a Thanksgiving dessert that she called Autumn Alaska. It was originally inspired by the traditional Baked Alaska dessert – but used a full size pumpkin pie as the base, then a layer of ice cream topped by meringue. It was both beautiful and delicious. In the 1970’s, her recipe was published in a cookbook in the San Francisco area. Unfortunately, she no longer has her exact recipe, but she was able...
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