This is an exciting post for me to write because it has a lot of good things going for it. First off this whole post is to celebrate Mother's Day and all the wonderful moms out there (especially mine) who deserve a special day.
Secondly there is a tart. A lemony, creamy, tangy tart topped with whipping cream and any kind of fruit you wish. (It is a very very good thing. The kind of thing that children who love their mothers make for Mother's Day)
And thirdly I've paired up with Cuisinart for an awesome giveaway so that you can make your mom all sorts of delicious stuff (or even give her the prize if you win, making you the obvious choice for the Favorite Child Award).
This savory pie has fresh corn, tomatoes, herbs, and cheddar all baked in a biscuit crust. It's creamy, cheesy, and so delicious that it can easily be served as a main or a side dish.
With fall quickly approaching my boyfriend and I took advantage of the warm of sunny weekend to have a barbecue with our families. The grocery stores still have corn and fresh summer tomatoes despite the fact that the autumn squashes are appearing everywhere. It's the perfect time to bake something like this because the cooler evenings and mornings makes a hot oven bearable while the stores are still stocked up with summer produce.
I've made this pie a number of times and I find that I get the right amount of juiciness without a soggy crust when 75% of the tomatoes have been seeded. It sounds fancy but really all I do is cut almost all the tomatoes in half, then push out the gooey stuff and seeds with my fingers, then slice the tomato. The more juice and seeds you leave in your slices more juice that ends up in your pie.
I've made blueberry crumb bars a number of times and although they were always very tasty I knew there was something that I wanted to be different about them.
These berry crumble bars are made with a mixture of blueberries and raspberries but the most successful tweak that I made to the recipe was to replace part of the flour with graham cracker crumbs.
The graham cracker crumbs add a lot of extra flavor to the crust and topping and help the bars keep a bit of crispiness in their crumble even after being refrigerated.
This month was my first time participating in the Daring Kitchen's baking challenge. Each month a host reveals a new challenge in the web-site's private forums and then the 100's participants have until the 27th to attempt it. Lots of experienced bakers offer tips and advice and you can ask for help in the forums or just post pictures of your completed item.
This month's challenge was crostata with your choice of filling. The base of a crostata is pasta frolla, which is a sweet short crust pastry (or sweet tart dough) made of flour, sugar, butter and eggs.
This chocolate pudding pie is amazing! It's creamy, has a deep chocolate flavor, and still manages to be a light dessert. After it got all prettied up with some white chocolate lace it was ready to be the perfect pie for my mom's birthday dinner.
Since chilled pies can't be decorated with icing like a cake nor baked with pie crust designs I decided to pipe a simple lace design with melted white chocolate. This made the dessert more suitable for a birthday.. not every birthday has to have cake. Some lucky birthdays get delicious cool and creamy pie.
Sweet lime pie with mangos and strawberries for one of the most important persons in my life.
I'm posting this well after mother's day.. but it doesn't need to be mother's day to make this tasty pie or to give something sweet to your mom. Plus it's simple to make and fun to decorate with different fruit.
I don't remember exactly where this recipe came from, I copied it from a clipping that my mom had given me months and months ago. Since then I've used this graham cracker pie crust for many a delicious pie because its fast, easy, and so so tasty with creamy pies.
