posts tagged ‘apple pie’

Sausage and Apple Pie: Breakfast… dessert… how about both?

Recipe: Sausage and Apple Pie

Chocolate-covered pretzels.

Baked Brie with apricot jam.

Kettle corn.

Do you taste what I’m getting at here?

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Paper Bag Apple Pie: a real (tasty) bag job.

Recipe: Paper Bag Apple Pie

Apple pie baked… how?

In a paper bag.

And why?

Proponents say it yields a gorgeous flaky crust, and perfectly cooked filling.

True? Well, it worked for me; but I’ll let you be the judge…

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FREEZE: The fastest way to fresh-baked fruit pie.

Recipe: Guaranteed Apple Pie

Wouldn’t you love to pull this stunning apple pie out of your oven in less than an hour, start to finish?

Impossible, you say?

Au contraire – your grandma could have done it. That is, if you had a grandma like mine, with a big chest freezer full of unbaked pies.

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A(+) is for apple pie.

Recipe: Guaranteed Apple Pie

Is there any (non-chocolate) dessert so compelling as a slice of warm apple pie, topped with vanilla ice cream?

Is there any baking challenge so daunting, so fraught with anxiety, so filled with high expectations (and so liable to shipwreck on the rocky shores of failure) as apple pie?

Methinks not.

Mealsothinks fear of apple pie is totally unfounded.

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Would a pie by any other name taste as sweet? Yes – if it’s Apple Slab.

Recipe: Old-Fashioned Apple Slab

Apple Slab.

Fairly rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?

CLUNK.

I doubt anything I’ve ever baked has a less compelling name. But truth be told, it wasn’t the name that attracted me. It was an email from a reader wanting to re-create something his grandmother had made decades ago. And since I’m a complete sucker for old-time recipes, I took the bait.

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The road to crisp is paved with new inventions: Tarte Tatin

Recipe: Tarte Tatin

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Necessity is the mother of invention. And nowhere is this truer than in the King Arthur test kitchen.

I recently watched a couple of my fellow bakers struggle to create Tarte Tatin – France’s classic apple tart – with a perfectly caramelized sugar sauce, and crisp, flaky crust.

While Andrea and Liz had nailed the caramel, they were still trying to figure out the best way to produce a crisp crust underneath that liquid caramel. read the rest of this entry »

More crust – less filling! Apple pie for crust-lovers.

Recipe: Crusty Apple Pie

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See that pie? The one above, the first thing your eyes were drawn to when you opened this page?

I made that pie. And I got the highest compliment on it from Halley, our King Arthur Web director.

Halley: Who made that pie in the kitchen?

Me: I did.

Halley: You’re kidding! I thought Sue made it.

Me: Yeah, really… read the rest of this entry »

Off-the-wall recipes

Recipes: Sparkling Cranberry Gems, The Fastest Homemade Pizza Ever, Now or Later Pizza, Apple Pie with a Twist, Classic Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies, Brownies, 100% Whole Wheat Pain de Mie, Superdoodles, Favorite Fudge Birthday Cake, Tea Sandwich Bread

Do you know what “off the wall recipes” are? Now, don’t get all excited thinking you’re going to read about chocolate papaya muffin tops or fennel sardine apricot bread. No, I’m talking about the stack of recipes I’ve clipped together and hung on the pegboard next to my work station in the King Arthur test kitchen. These are recipes I make over and over again– read the rest of this entry »