Individual Pumpkin Pies with Gingersnap Crusts

Since I recently acquired individual size tart pans, individual sized pumpkin pies seemed perfect for this time of year. I didn’t go with the typical pumpkin pie recipe that usually calls for sweetened condensed milk. Instead I added cream cheese, which made the pie so deliciously creamy, almost like a cheesecake, but not. You’ll have [...]

Wet Bottom Shoo Fly Pie

Who ever knows why I decided to make this pie last night. I have never had it nor did I have a craving for a molasses based dessert. I guess I just liked the name. Shoo Fly pie is of Pennsylvania Amish and Dutch origin. It is very very very sweet with the two main [...]

Pecan Pie

I made two pies recently. I made pumpkin pie using the same recipe that I had already posted and I also made pecan pie, which was a first for me. I found a recipe on foodnetwork.com that looked good. I have no experience with this type of pie, but this looked like a typical recipe. [...]

Pumpkin Pie with a Graham Cracker Crust

Pumpkin pie is such a traditional fall treat. It makes the apartment smell so wonderful. For my pumpkin pies, I like to use a graham cracker crust. Also, instead of the traditional evaporated milk, I like to use sweetened condensed milk and then omit any other sugar from the recipe. I think the sweetened condensed [...]

Apple Crumble Pie

Yesterday we did the quintessential fall activity…apple picking and pumpkin picking. I even got a mum. So of course I had to make an apple pie. I don’t like apple pies with a top and bottom crust so instead I make apple crumble pies with a bottom crust and a streusal topping. I’m not a [...]