I finally had time to make something~!!!

Mike was interested in some peanut butter chocolate pie... So it was my mission to figure out how the hell to make it!

I searched the Internet, but found nothing to suit my fancy.

THEN! I started searching through all of my mother's old cook books... I didn't find a recipe for "peanut butter" chocolate pie... BUT I did find a recipe for "Creamy Chocolate Pie"

So creamy chocolate pie it was!

I had everything already in my cabinet except whipping cream and a pie crust (I was too lazy to make my own pie crust and I had to work,,, so time was an issue)

Here is the simple and easy recipe:

Creamy Chocolate Pie

(Just thought I'd mention that this recipe book is from my birth year.. 1986...wonder if mom was craving desserts? lol)

Ingredients:

1 (9 in) baked pastry shell

3 (1 oz) semi-sweet chocolate squares

1 (14 oz) can of sweetened condensed milk (NOT evaporated milk)

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 cup hot water

1tsp vanilla extract

1 cup (1/2 pint) whipping cream (and some additional to top pie)

chocolate shavings

Directions-

In a heavy saucepan, over medium heat, melt chocolate with sweetened condensed milk and salt. Cook and stir until very thick and fudgy, 5 to 8 minutes. Add water; cook and stir until mixture thickens and bubbles. Remove from heat; Stir in vanilla. Cool 15 minutes. Chill thoroughly, 20 to 30 minutes; Stir. In large mixer bowl, beat 1 cup whipping cream until stiff; fold in cooled chocolate mixture. Pour into prepared pastry shell. Chill 3 hours or until set. Garnish with whipped cream and chocolate shavings. (as you can tell from my pictures I just garnished with chocolate shavings :)

** To make it "peanut butter-ish" I smoothed creamy peanut butter on the pie crust before I poured the chocolate mixture into the pie shell :)

From what I tasted in the mixing bowl, it was DELICIOUS.. but we'll find out when my Mike gets home today and trys it!

Let me know if you try it out and how it went... I'll probably add some mint to it next time...YuM!

Mrs. E

More Photos!

Yum! More Pie.. :)

Key Lime Pie!

Ok.. so I finally got some pictures up loaded!!!

So I'll be posting up the Recipe I used for key lime pie AND some photos of my results!
Hope you enjoy! :)

Mrs. E
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Key Lime Pie

(My recipes usually come from websites online... I believe this was allrecipes.com, Oh, and BTW, I added to and subtracted things here to make it my own)

Ingredients-

• 5 Egg yolks, Beaten
• 1(14 oz) Can sweetened condensed milk
• 1/2 Cup key lime juice*
• 1(9 in.) Graham cracker crust*
• Coconut extract*
• Green and yellow food coloring*
• Whipped cream
  

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F


2. Combine the egg yolks, sweetened condensed milk and lime juice. (* I only found actual "key limes" in Walmart, but I've seen comments in recipes suggesting the use of have lemon juice and have lime juice as a replacement :) So don't freak out!... Mix well.


3. Now is where I added just a BIT of green and yellow food coloring. (*3 parts green:1 part yellow). This is optional.... I added the color because the batter looked a little orange snot-ish from the eggs... sorry, but it DID.


4. Pour the mixture into one 9 inch pie crust... *or do like I did and make about 6 or 7 mini pies! :)


5. Next, bake in your preheated oven for about 10 15 mins.


6. Cooooooooool time....


7. Then! My favorite!- Decorate with any kind of whipped topping! (* I added some coconut extract to some Cool Whip... Yum! Talk about refreshing!)


8. Do I really need to tell you to eat them now!?

The Finished Product!

One of the pies.. Mmmm.. Have a piece!