Almond Cream Pie Or Pecan Cream Pie Food

ALMOND CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Prepare the Crust:.
• Preheat the oven to 375°F.
• Place the sifted flour, salt and butter in a bowl and use your fingertips to rub the butter into the flour until the mixture has an even, granular texture. Add the powdered sugar and blend. Sprinkle with the water, mix gently and gather together to form a ball. Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
• Butter a 20.5 cm (8 in.) tart pan with a removable bottom.
• Roll out the dough to a thickness of .5cm and place it over the pan without stretching. Press well into the bottom and up the sides, then roll the rolling pin firmly over the top to trim the excess. Prick with a fork and bake for 10 minutes.
• Prepare the filling:.
• In a saucepan over medium- low heat, make a roux by melting the butter and stirring in the flour with a wooden spoon. In a separate saucepan, bring the milk, salt and sugar to a boil.
• Add the hot milk to the roux a little at a time, whisking constantly until the mixture is smooth. Continue whisking and cooking over low heat for 5 minutes, until thick.
• Remove from heat and add the egg yolks and powdered almonds, whisking briskly. Do not allow the filling to boil after the egg yolks are added, or it will separate.
• Pour the filling into the pre-cooked pie shell. Sprinkle the sliced almonds over the top and bake for 20 minutes, or until the top is nicely browned. Cool completely and sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired.

ALMOND CREAM PIE OR PECAN CREAM PIE

Steps:

• In saucepan, combine, sugar, salt and cake flour. Stir in milk and egg yolks. Whisk all smooth.
• Cook on med-high for 3 minutes while stirring. Turn down heat. Continue whisking over low heat until the mixture coats the back of a spoon and is smooth and thick.
• Take mixture off heat, stir in butter, and both extracts. Add chopped almonds. Stir until blended. Pour into bowl, cover and cool. Once cool to touch, pour into already cooked pie shell. Cover with plastic wrap, directly on cream(to prevent a skin from forming).
• Chill in fridge for 4-6 hours.
• For Topping: in a chilled bowl, pour whipping cream, powder sugar and vanilla. Whip until soft peaks form.
• Spoon or pipe onto chilled pie. Garnish with toasted slivered almonds.
• Variation: pecan cream pie: take out almond extract, increase vanilla extract to 1 teaspoon. Use chopped toasted pecans instead of almonds for filling and use toasted chopped pecans for garnish.

ORANGE ALMOND CREAM WHOOPIE PIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven 350 degrees and line baking sheet with parchment paper.
• In a bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; set aside. In another bowl, mix the egg, oil, orange zest and sugar. Add the dry ingredients to the wet, alternating with the buttermilk, until all the ingredients are well combined.
• Drop the dough, a teaspoonful at a time keeping the shape as rounded as possible, onto the prepared baking sheet, taking care to leave enough space between the cookies as they expand while baking.
• Bake about 8 minutes, until slightly golden around the edges, but do not overbake for they will get hard. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
• While the cookies are cooling, prepare the filling. In a mixing bowl using an electric mixer, mix the cream cheese and butter until light and well blended. Add the sifted powder sugar, in batches, until the filling is perfectly smooth. Add the almond extract, mix well.
• To fill the cookies, use a pastry bag or spoon to spread the filling onto the the flat side of one cookie and then sandwich another cookie on top.

ALMOND PECAN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• To prepare homemade pie crust, place flour in mixing bowl; add butter and cut in with pastry blender. Add salt and then add COLD water 1 Tablespoon at a time. Mix and toss ingredients together with a fork until dough ball forms. Place in plastic wrap or Ziploc baggie and put into the refrigerator while you make the filling.
• To prepare filling, whisk the eggs, brown sugar, maple syrup, melted butter, vanill and salt together in a mixing bowl.
• Whisk.
• Stir in the pecans and sliced almonds.
• Once filling is prepared, take the dough ball from the fridge and place on lightly floured surface. Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll out the crust dough into a circle at least 12 inches in diameter and gently fold pie crust into quarters. Move the folded pie crust from the counter to the pie plate. Unfold in the pie plate. Pour filling into pie shell. Flute edges in your favorite design.
• Place pie crust shield over the top or use foil to make a shield to keep the crust edges from burning or turning dark brown while baking.
• Bake at 375 for 40-50 minutes, or until filling has set.
• Let cool completely on cooling rack. Refrigerate. It's easiest to slice pie when its cold!
• Serve cool with whipped cream or warm with vanilla bean ice cream. You'll have to imagine the dollop of whipped cream.

DAIRY HOLLOW HOUSE ALMOND PIE

Steps:

• In a small heavy saucepan, melt butter over low heat until golden brown. Cool. In a large bowl, beat eggs blended. Add the sugar, corn syrup, honey, extracts, salt and melted butter. Stir in almonds; pour into pastry shell. , Bake at 425° for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 325°; bake 35-40 minutes longer or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool. Garnish with whipped cream if desired.

ALMOND CRUSTED CHERRY CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Mix pie crust as directed, but add chopped almonds with water.
• Prick only the sides of the pie crust and bake as directed.
• Cool.
• Combine condensed milk, lemon juice, vanilla, and almond extract.
• Fold in whipped cream and spoon into cooled pie shell.
• Spread cherry pie filling over cream filling.
• Chill.

PECAN CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine pecans, coconut and butter. Pour onto an ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 5-10 minutes or until golden brown, stirring occasionally. Cool. , In a bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Fold in whipped topping. Spoon into pastry shell. Sprinkle with coconut mixture. Drizzle with caramel topping. Refrigerate for 2 hours.