For a new take on a fall classic, try a pumpkin cheesecake.
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Peach and Sour Cream Tart
A bewitching combination―peaches and cream―is made even sweeter with a bit of honey.
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Summer Fruit Pie
This pie showcases a virtual bounty of fresh fruits.
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Gingersnap Pear Cheesecake
Ginger infuses a cheesecake, with its gingersnap crust and layer of ginger-spiked pears.
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Sweet Potato Pie
This take on the sweet potato pie, a staple of southern cooking, is loaded with taste but light on calories.
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Raspberry Rhubarb Tart
Use a cast-iron skillet to make this fruit tart, and you’re practically guaranteed to get a perfect crust.
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Rustic Apple Tart
A hearty, easy-to-make tart brims with cinnamon apples.
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Apple Pie Baked Apples
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Chocolate-Caramel Ice Cream Pie
Each layer is distinctly scrumptious, whether it’s dark chocolate, caramel, or hazelnut.
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Raspberry Crostata
The make-your-own crust of this crostata is simple to work with because it doesn’t require any rolling out.
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Chocolate Ice Box Cake
Just the name alone speaks to this confection’s old-fashioned goodness.
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Chocolate Pecan Pie
If you wish, add rum to the filling mixture to subtly enhance the flavor of the pecans.
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8 Mini Pies Made in a Muffin Tin
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Brown Butter Jam Tarts
These jammy brown butter tarts won't last long at your holiday get together. The cookie shell, filled with notes of nutty flavor from the brown butter, is only made better by the strawberry or apricot jam that soaks deep into the cookie after baking. For this reason, don't hold back when filling the shells.
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Ruffled Cranberry-Almond Milk Pie
Beautiful and festive, this pie might just be the crème de la crème of this list. Phyllo dough creates the swirling rosettes that make this pie oh-so-eye-catching. The custardy base is made with a good helping of cream cheese to intensify the creamy texture. Garnish with fresh or frozen cranberries and almond slices.
Pie crusts and tart shells can be made from several types of dough or crumbs. Flaky dough, mealy dough and crumbs are best for pie crusts; sweet dough is usually used for tart shells. Fillings make pies and tarts distinctive and flavorful. Four types of fillings are common: cream, fruit, custard and chiffon.
There are four types of pies: cream, fruit, custard, and savory. A pie that contains cooked meat, poultry, seafood, or vegetables in a thick sauce. Examples: Pot pies, Quiche, and Sheppard pie. Made by cooking baking uncooked along with crust.
A pie with no top crust can be a tart or flan. Either can be sweet or savoury. One of my favourites is Bakewell tart, which is made with raspberry jam and an almond based filling.
A popular choice for creating dessert tarts and pies, shortcrust pastry is commonly made with half the quantity of fat to flour and has a crisp but crumbly texture. This pastry dough is a more forgiving variety of dough that can be resilient if overworked.
Mealy pie dough is best for using for pies that have a liquid or custard filling like pumpkin, or apple pie filling because it won't get soggy. The pieces of fat in the flour are very small, making the fat distribution denser which repels liquids.
A coffin or coffyn referred to a container made of pastry, a precursor of the modern pie crust, and food was served in the coffin it had been cooked in. The first printed use of the word coffin as a box for a corpse appeared later, in the 16th century. Historians trace pies back to ancient times.
What is in shoofly pie? The star of the show is molasses, but shoofly pie is also typically composed of flour, brown sugar, water, spices, and sometimes egg. The pie is topped with a crumb mixture and served in a flaky pie crust. Shoofly pie is similar to a coffee cake but with a gooey molasses bottom.
Apple Pie. What it is: Somehow both quintessentially English and American, this may be the most famous pie of all. In Britain it goes back to the 1300s, and the earliest recipe includes figs and raisins. Modern recipes tend to consist of apples, sugar, butter and cinnamon encased in shortcrust pastry.
But the apple pie takes the cake when it comes to fiber and potassium, and it has less added sugar. So what's a pie aficionado to do? Well, if you want to consume fewer calories, go for the pumpkin—it almost always has fewer because of the single crust.
The early mince pie was known by several names, including "mutton pie", "shrid pie" and "Christmas pie". Typically, its ingredients were a mixture of minced meat, suet, a range of fruits, and spices, such as cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.
According to a 2020 survey, turkey's the main event for 73% of Americans, with prime rib (69%), roast beef (66%), steak (65%), chicken (64%), roast pork (64%) and ham (62%) also coming in as popular contenders.
According to America's Favorite Christmas Candy by State Report, a comprehensive study by research firm HubScore that delved into a survey of the top 20 favorite Christmas candies, Kit Kat ranked top in 13 states followed by a tie between Skittles and candy canes, both ranked top in six states.
Apple Pie. What it is: Somehow both quintessentially English and American, this may be the most famous pie of all. In Britain it goes back to the 1300s, and the earliest recipe includes figs and raisins. Modern recipes tend to consist of apples, sugar, butter and cinnamon encased in shortcrust pastry.
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