Mile-High Peanut Butter-Brownie Pie

 

 Mile-High Peanut Butter-Brownie Pie 

recipe curtsey of allrecipes & Pillsbury

Mile-High Peanut Butter Brownie Pie

First you’ll need to make a crust.

 

After your crust is ready you make the brownie mix according to the package directions then you add some peanut butter chips to the brownies.

 

Once it’s nicely mix you add it to your unbaked pie shell.  I have to admit when I was doing this I kept thinking is a pie crust REALLY necessary?  Then you bake it for about 40 min.

 

You cover up the crust after about 20 min of baking with one of these things.

 

Once it’s done in the oven you have to let it cool for about 20 minutes on the counter and then about an hour in the refrigerator.

 

After it’s cooled you mix up the topping.  You add peanut butter, cream cheese and powdered sugar to your mixing bowl and mix until smooth. 

 

Gently fold in an 8 oz. container of cool whip.

Spread all of that on top of the brownie pie and top it with mini chocolate chips and chopped nuts. 

 

 

YUM!

Rustic Autumn Fruit Tart

Here is the recipe for today Rustic Autumn Fruit Tart

 

 

Rustic Autumn Fruit Tart

Today we have to make a crust.  This is a crust that has butter and cream cheese mixed into the flour.  Maybe for some of you this will be new but it’s not to hard just mix it in like you normally would then form it into a disc and place in in the refrigerator like so

While that’s in the refrigerator you can cut up and peel your apples and pears.  Then add your orange juice.

 

Then mix together your spices and cornstarch. 

Add spices to your apples and give it a mix. 

When I was done with these steps I took my disc out of the refrigerator it was nice and cold because I used already cold butter and cream cheese when I made it, it really didn’t need anymore time in the fridge. So I just used a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper *HINT* (I wanted to roll my dough out on the paper so I sprayed a little bit of cooking spray on my cookie sheet before I put the paper down it makes the paper stay in place very nicely as you roll.)  Roll out disc to desired size.  You’ll probably need a little flour I just dusted my rolling pin it worked our great. 

Place the fruit in the middle and fold up the edges.  Bake at 375 for about 30 min.

After it comes out of the oven you brush it with apricot jam AND ENJOY!

 

Variations -

When you are done mixing all the fruit in the orange juice and spices and then putting the fruit filling in the crust there is a lot of juice let over.  So I was thinking that if you didn’t have apricot jam on hand you could just thicken the leftover liquid by heating it up in a sauce pan and then drizzle that over the top. 

Oatmeal Streusel Rolls

This is my first post on my cooking blog so I thought I had better make it a yummy one!!

The Bread Recipe

2 cups of warm H20 (115 degrees)

2 TBS of yeast

3/4 cup of sugar

6 – 7 cups of bread flour

6 packets of cinnamon spice instant oatmeal

1 tsp. of salt

2 cubes of butter

2 eggs

add all of the ingredients in your mixing bowl in the above order and mix for 2 minutes add enough flour that your dough just begins to clean the sides of the mixing bowl.  Let rise until it doubles, punch it down and knead it a few times adding flour if needed.

 

Roll out the dough into a rectangle and spread lightly with butter and brown sugar/ cinnamon.

In a Mixing bowl mix

1 cube of butter

1/2 cup of flour

1/2 cup of instant oatmeal

1 cup of brown sugar

1 tbs of cinnamon

until if forms course crumbs.

Sprinkle over dough and then if you so desire sprinkle with a little bit more cinnamon and sugar especially around the edges. 

Then roll it all up.

Cut into rolls about 3/4 of an inch thick.  Let rise for about 30 minutes.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 28-30 minutes.  Check after 25 minutes AND MAKE SURE YOU BAKE THESE BELOW THE MIDDLE OF THE OVEN. 

Icing is good too

ENJOY!!