Eggnog And Holly Pie Food

EGGNOG AND HOLLY PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450 degrees.
• Thaw pie crusts if necessary.
• Place bottom crust in pie pan; trim crust even with edge.
• Using a small holly leaf cookie cutter, cut about 30 holly leaves from remaining crust.
• Beat egg white in a bowl.
• Brush edge of pie crust and underside of leaves with egg white and arrange around edge of crust.
• The end effect will be clusters of 3 leaves (2 on the crust and 1 on top of the filling).
• Put extra leaves on cookie sheet.
• Beat egg yolk in small bowl.
• Add food color.
• Brush leaves with green mixture.
• Bake crust 9-11 minutes and bake extra leaves 3-4 minutes.
• Cool.
• In small saucepan, sprinkle gelatin over 1/2 cup egg nog.
• Let stand 1 minute to soften gelatin.
• Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until dissolved.
• Remove from heat; set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine powdered sugar, butter, and cream cheese.
• Beat on low until light and fluffy.
• Gradually add nutmeg, rum extract, gelatin mixture, and remaining egg nog.
• Beat on high until smooth.
• Refrigerate 15 minutes or until mixture mounds slightly when stirred.
• Pour into pie crust.
• Place extra holly leaves and red candies on filling to complete the holly leaf clusters.
• Sprinkle with nutmeg.
• Refrigerate until firm (about 4 hours).

HOLIDAY EGGNOG PIE

Steps:

• Soften 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin in 2 cups eggnog on top of double boiler. Add 1/4 cup sugar and stir until gelatin and sugar are throughly dissolved.
• Add 2 more cups of eggnog, nutmeg, and rum, if desired. Chill.
• Whip chilled mixture until light and fluffy and then fold in whipped heavy cream.
• Pour mixture into a 9- or 10-inch cooked pie shell. Chill until firm.
• Garnish with additional whipped cream and cherries, if desired.

FANTASTIC CREAMY EGGNOG PIE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, sprinkle gelatin over water; let stand for 1 minute.
• In a saucepan, combine sugar, cornstarch and salt.
• Stir in eggnog until smooth, bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes, or until thickened.
• Stir in gelatin until dissolved.
• Remove from heat; cool to room temperature.
• Stir in extracts.
• Fold in whipped cream.
• Pour into pastry shell.
• Refrigerate until firm (about 3 or more hours).

HOLIDAY EGGNOG PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Mix the sugar and flour together in a mixing bowl. Beat in the eggnog, eggs, and vanilla to make a smooth mixture. Stir in the butter. Pour into the prepared pie crust.
• Bake in preheated oven until the custard is set, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool before serving.

TRIPLE-LAYER EGGNOG PIE

Steps:

• Microwave caramels and 1 Tbsp. milk in microwaveable bowl on MEDIUM (50%) 30 sec. or until caramels are completely melted when stirred. Pour into crust; sprinkle with nuts.
• Beat pudding mixes, eggnog and remaining milk with whisk 2 min.; spoon 1-1/2 cups over nuts. Stir half the COOL WHIP into remaining pudding; spread over pudding layer in crust. Top with remaining COOL WHIP.
• Refrigerate 3 hours.

HOLIDAY EGGNOG PIE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggnog, sour cream and pie spice. Fold in whipped topping; spread into crust. Sprinkle with nutmeg., Cover and freeze for 4 hours or until firm. Remove from the freezer 15 minutes before slicing.