Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Apple Pie

I found this recipe and thought it was an interesting way to do apple pie. I made it and it was sooooo good.

Filling
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
8 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and sliced

Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon, and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer.

Place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apples, mounded slightly. Cover with a lattice work of crust. Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust. Pour slowly so that it does not run off.

Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes, until apples are soft.

Pastry:
3 cups of flour
1 cup + 2 T shortening
1 1/2 tsp. salt
7 or so T cold water

Combine flour and salt; cut in shortening with pastry blender till mixture resembles coarse meal. Sprinkle cold water, 1T at a time, evenly over surface; stir with fork till all ingredients are moistened. Shape into 2 balls.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Layered Ice Cream Cake

I saw this recipe on TLC and thought it sounded so good. I haven't actually made it so if any of you make it, let me know how you liked it.


Ingredients:

24 ice cream sandwiches
8 oz cool whip
2 king-size butterfinger candy bars crushed
1 squeeze-bottle chocolate syrup
1 squeeze-bottle caramel topping

Instructions:

Arrange in six layers in a 9x13-inch pan:

First layer: 12 ice cream sandwiches placed over the bottom of the pan

Second layer: half of the cool whip

Third layer: half of the crushed butterfinger candy bars, topped with half the bottle of chocolate syrup and half the bottle of caramel topping.

Repeat layers 1-3. Freeze and eat as desired.

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