Showing posts with label Pie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pie. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Lime Pie

Ingredients

For the base:
  • 200 g ginger nut biscuits (crushed into crumbs)
  • 50 g butter (melted)
For the filling:
  • juice and zest 4 limes
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 300 ml double cream
  • 24cm springform tin

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Fruit Pie

Ingredients

Sour cream pie pastry:
  • 8 tblsp cold unsalted butter
  • 0.25 cup white shorting
  • 1 cup strong flour
  • 1 1/3 cups plain flour
  • 0.50 tsp salt
  • 1.50 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 tblsp fresh lemon juice
  • 1/3 cup sour cream
  • 1 ½ -3 ½ tablespoon ice cold water

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Chocolate Coconut Pie

INGREDIENTS:

  • 397g can caramel
  • 100g dark chocolate
  • 4 bananas
  • a little cocoa powder , for dusting

FOR THE COCONUT CREAM

  • 400ml can coconut milk
  • 4 large egg yolks
  • 4 tbsp caster sugar
  • 2 tbsp plain flour
  • 1 tbsp cornflour
  • 2 tbsp Malibu
  • 300ml pot double cream

FOR THE BASE

  • 200g pack creamed coconut , roughly chopped
  • 400g bourbon biscuits

Monday, March 25, 2013

Lemon Meringue Pie


Ingredients

  • sweet pastry ingredients:
  • 300 g plain flour
  • 110 g caster sugar
  • 150 g butter
  • 1egg
  • lemon curd ingredients:
  • grated zest of 2 lemons
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 4 large eggs
  • 110 g caster sugar
  • 110 g butter (cold, cut into small cubes)
  • italian meringue ingredients:
  • 2 tblsp cold water
  • 75 g caster sugar
  • 0.50 tblsp liquid glucose
  • 2 egg whites

Tarte la Belle-Mere, Walnut Tart with Armagnac and Mascarpone Cream

Ingredients

  • for the pastry:
  • 110 g butter
  • 55 g icing sugar
  • 2 free-range egg yolks
  • 225 g plain flour
  • 1 pinch salt
  • for the filling:
  • 150 g caster sugar
  • 3 free-range eggs (separated)
  • 200 g shelled walnuts (roughly chopped)
  • 200 g walnuts ground
  • 250 ml crème fraiche
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • for the decoration:
  • 170 g icing sugar
  • 2-3 tablespoons armagnac
  • 6 walnut halves
  • gold leaf for decoration
  • 150 ml cream
  • 100 ml mascarpone

Friday, March 22, 2013

No Bake Key Lime Pie from Scratch


Crunchie Sticky Banoffee Pie

Ingredients

  • 297 g can condensed milk
  • 230 g digestive biscuits (about 16 crushed finely)
  • 115 g butter (melted)
  • 3 bananas
  • 250 ml cream
  • 3 crunchie bars (roughly chopped)

Deep Filled Apple Pie with Cinnamon

Ingredients

  • short crust pastry
  • 350 g plain flour
  • 175 g hard butter
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 level tablespoon of tablespoon sugar
  • ice cold water (6-8 dessertspoons-approx)
  • filling
  • 4-5 cooking apples
  • 50 g sultanas
  • 0.50 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 75 g caster sugar
  • glaze
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tblsp milk

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Ingredients

  • 50 g (1 ¾ oz) low fat spread, plus a little for greasing
  • 4 canned pineapple rings in natural juice plus 2 tablespoons of the juice
  • 5 glace cherries, halved
  • 50 g (1 ¾ oz) light muscovado sugar
  • 100 g (3 ½ oz) self raising flour
  • 0.50 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp clear honey

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Vanilla whoopie pies

Ingredients

  • 65 g (21/2 oz) baking margarine, softened
  • 100 g (31/2 oz) caster sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1/2 tsp dr. oetker natural vanilla extract
  • 200 g (7 oz) plain flour
  • 2.50 tsp dr. oetker baking powder
  • 75 ml (3 fl.oz) whole milk
To decorate
  • 200 g (7 oz) icing sugar
  • dr. oetker sugar strands
  • 65 g (21/2 oz) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/2 tsp finely grated rind unwaxed orange