Pies for Pi Day

I like to make pie so I thought I would repost some recipes here for Pi Day!    

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Oreo Pie

Pecan Pie

 

Peanut Butter Pie

 

Strawberry Pie

Dutch Oven Cherry Cobbler

We celebrated Father's Day last night and I made cherry cobbler for dessert. This recipe is so very easy and good!

Ingredients

4 cans cherry pie filling

1 box white or yellow cake mix

1/2 C brown sugar

Cinnamon 

1 stick butter

Dump cherry pie filling into a Dutch oven 

Top with dry cake mix.

Sprinkle brown sugar over cake mix.

Sprinkle cinnamon over top.

Cut stick of butter into 1 T slices and lay over the top.

Cook covered at 375 degrees for 45-60 minutes.  It is finished when the cake mix is a nice golden brown color.

Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

This can also be cooked over a camp fire.

Pecan Pie

Some day I'll meal plan again, maybe next week, maybe 2014.  Ha!  In the meantime I am going to share recipes for the things I contributed to our Thanksgiving meal.  This is a family recipe that came from my gramma although I am not sure if it is actually her recipe.  I myself do not like pecan pie but I wanted to try out the recipe and I thought when better to do so than Thanksgiving.  It was a really easy recipe and my mom said it was good.  Ha!

    Ingredients 1 9in pastry pie crust, homemade or otherwise 3 eggs 1/2  C brown sugar 1/4 tsp salt 1 C light corn syrup 1/2 tsp vanilla  1 C pecans, broken in pieces   Mix all ingredients in bowl. Pour in pie crust. Bake 10 minutes at 450 degrees. Then bake additional 30 minutes at 350 degrees.   ENJOY!    

Strawberry Pie (no rhubarb this time)

We are celebrating Father's Day today.  Eric was up at 6:30 this morning to put 2 pork butts in the smoker.  It's almost 12 lbs of meat so it will need to cook pretty much all day.  We are also having potato salad with red skin potatoes and dill out of garden.  My mom is bringing broccoli salad and carrot cake.  I am also going to make cauliflower au gratin with the cauliflower, fennel and onion from our CSA portion this week.  I will be back with that recipe tomorrow.  But for now...Eric asked his dad what his favorite dessert was and his response was "strawberry pie is pretty good".   So I am in the process of making strawberry pie.  Hopefully it will be tasty, as I've never made it before and I am serving it to guests on my first try.

Ingredients

9 in pie crust

1 qt strawberries

1 C sugar

3 T corn starch

3/4 cup water

1/2 cup heavy whipping cream

First prepare & bake your crust.  I used a Pillsbury pre-made crust and baked it according to package instructions.

 Next cut up 1/2 of the strawberries into large pieces.  I halved or quartered each depending on the size.  Place cut up strawberries in pie crust once it has cooled.
Take remaining strawberries and place in a saucepan over high heat.  Mash the strawberries and mix with sugar.  Stir and continuing mashing.  Bring to a boil.
Mix water and corn starch together.  Add to strawberry mixture over heat.  Reduce heat to simmer and cook until thickened, about 10 minutes.  Stir continually.  When complete, pour this mixture over the strawberries in the pie dish.
Refrigerate for a few hours before serving.

I'm sorry ya'll I totally failed at taking pics on this recipe.  Here is one of the last piece of pie but it just doesn't do it justice. 

It was delicious!  I served it with a dollop of homemade whipped cream on each piece.  If you have never made this before, just take heavy whipping cream and throw it in the mixer for a few minutes - it's so much better than Cool Whip.  Next time I make it, I'll take better pictures and there will definitely be a next time!

Oreo Pie

I've been making oreo pie for several years now.  I don't even remember where the recipe originally came from but it is really good.  Also one recipe makes 3 pies so there is always extra to give away which will make you pretty popular with your friends and family.  We were at the lake for Memorial Day Weekend and we typically celebrate my brother's birthday this weekend.  He loves this pie so I thought it would be a perfect thing to make.

Ingredients:

Yields 3 pies

1 pkg Oreos (I use Double Stuff)

1 container Cool Whip - the big one

1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream

3 prepared graham cracker or Oreo pie crusts

Let Cool Whip and ice cream set out for a while to soften.
Mix cool whip and ice cream together in a large bowl.

Crush entire package of oreos and then mix in to ice cream/Cool Whip mixture.  

When well mixed, portion mixture out into 3 pie crusts.  

Store in freezer until serving.

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Today I made a strawberry rhubarb pie.  I needed to use the rhubarb from my CSA portion this week and the only thing I know about rhubarb is that its tart so it pairs well with the sweetness of strawberries.  Since I've  never baked anything with rhubarb before I searched out several recipes and decided on this one.

Now comes the hard part...wait an hour while it bakes to see how it turns out...

It cooked over some around the edges but it still looks and smells delicious.  Perfect with a scoop of vanilla ice cream