Alpha Bakers: Black and Blueberry Pie

For Christmas, my husband surprised me with several things from Anthropologie home/kitchen section. One of them was the rolling pin in the above photo. When I opened the nicely wrapped rolling pin on Christmas morning, I hold the handle on each hand and made the motion in the air as if I'm rolling a dough. He looked at me and said in a serious tone "I didn't intend for you to use it for baking. I thought you can use it for pictures." Well, he is right, the pin is made from ceramic so I suppose pressing on it is probably not a good idea, :).

I am not very excited about pie but I love Rose's cream cheese pie crust. I think it's the best pie crust. I have made other pie crust (Rose's flaky pie crust and also recipes from other authors). The cream cheese pie crust wins every time. So even though I am not a huge pie fan, I am looking forward to this because of the pie crust. Also, I get to use my new 4 inch ruffled pie pan and take photos of the new for-photography-only rolling pin.

I made 1/4 recipe of this pie. This time I remembered to measure in volume my 9 inch pie pan vs. the 4 inch pie pan. By volume the 4 inch pie pan is 1/4 the 9 inch. So all set to divide everything by 4.

HCB: Zach's La Bomba

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The name of this dessert makes me think of the 1980's song called "La Bamba." Do you know this song? It goes like this:

Para bailar la bamba

Para bailar la bamba

Se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia
Para mi, para ti, ay arriba, ay arriba
Ay, arriba arriba
Por ti sere, por ti sere, por ti sere

Unfortunately I don't have the song so I didn't quite dance to it as I was making this dessert (yes I know Monica will say she wants to see a video of the dancing! FAT CHANCE my friend LOL).

Back to the cake. This is the last week of the official HCB club. So sad!!! The last year and a half had been so fun. And yes I know we are still continuing, but without Marie! Marie, will you do a guest post or a LC NC sometimes? Pretty please with a cherry on top?????