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Pie

Appetizers/Starters, Breakfast/Brunch, Lunch, Sides

Potato Leek and Cheddar Pasties

Hand pies, pasties, whatever you want to call them are a great alternative to making a sandwich when you’re headed out on a mini-picnic (in March!), so I made these Potato Leek and Cheddar ones before heading out. Bacon would have been a lovely addition but I didn’t have any in the fridge. So yummy. So easy too — just remember to take the puff pastry out of the fridge the night before. And I am off on my mini-adventure!
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Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Valentine’s Day Raspberry Tart

It’s Valentine’s Day and while I do think that it is a commercial “holiday”, it is a good excuse to bake something so I went for this super-raspberry, super-red, super-delicious Raspberry Curd Tart. It’s really delicious and actually quite easy to make. It can be done all in one day, or you can make the filling up to 3 days in advance and the crust a day in advance, in case you don’t want to be pressed for time.
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Desserts

(Inter) Woven Heritage Apple Pie

So I’m plugging away at Cookie Madness, but I couldn’t help but make one last pie in these pre-Thanksgiving days. This one uses heirloom apples called Baldwins that I got at Russell Orchards last weekend. Very nice apples; firm and not too tart. Loving my lattice work too. The rim was a little messy so I used a leaf cookie cutter to pretty it up a little bit.
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Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Blueberry Blossom Pie

As I mentioned last week, I am experimenting with pies — in advance of Thanksgiving — with neat designs. Last week, it was the “Wicked Twistah Apple Pie” and this week, I made a Blueberry Blossom Pie, because this is intended to look like a flower. What do you think?
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Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Wicked Twistah New England Apple Pie

Often people send me viral photos of cool looking bread design or fancy pie crusts. I love this but one of the things that you often see is the pre-baked pies, but never the end result. Like, what does it look like once You’ve baked it? Is the still as pretty? Or does it all bake together? I decided to give this style of pie — it’s really just a boring old double-crust apple pie, but with the fancy swoosh top crust — a go, and at least with this one, the pattern turned out pretty neat. Pleased with the result.
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