Roasted Apple Cinnamon Crumble

December 26, 2010.   Categories By Holiday, Desserts, Pies and Tarts.

Roasted Apple Cinnamon Crumble

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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Best Apple Pie in America: Vanilla Roasted Apple Pie

September 30, 2010.   Categories Chef Dawn Viola, Christmas, Contributing Chefs, Desserts, Pies and Tarts, Thanksgiving Dinner.

Best Apple Pie in America: Vanilla Roasted Apple Pie

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

October 21, 2009.   Categories Christmas, Desserts, Pies and Tarts, Thanksgiving Dinner.

Praline Pumpkin Pie

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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Bananas Foster Creme Pie

June 12, 2009.   Categories Desserts, Pies and Tarts.

Bananas Foster Creme Pie

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...

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Peggy’s Baked Autumn Alaska – Pumpkin Pie

November 2, 2008.   Categories Christmas, Desserts, Peggy's Favorites, Pies and Tarts, Thanksgiving Dinner.

Peggy’s Baked Autumn Alaska – Pumpkin Pie

My 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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