PPB: Great Pumpkin Pie

A short post to wish everyone a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

For a Halloween celebration at work I made the Great Pumpkin Pie from the Pie & Pastry Bible. I am not a big pumpkin fan but I had a lot of leftover pumpkin puree from making a Pumpkin Cheesecake a few weeks ago. Not wanting the puree to go to waste, I froze them, hoping I can use them again.

The pie turned out pretty good. It uses a butter crust and not the cream cheese pie crust that I love so much. I much prefer the taste of the cream cheese crust though. What's different about this pie is that it calls for processing gingersnap and pecans and putting it at the bottom of the crust.

As for the taste, I'm eating my piece and it is not bad. I can't get more excited than that, pumpkin is just not a flavor I like :).

Snap Thursday: Sidewalk

Fall is here and gone. The leaves have turned color and the trees are getting bald.

I captured these at the right time, as a few days later the temperature dropped and all those golden yellow leaves turned brown and unattractive.

Here is an up close photo of the leaves.

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Last Cake, Next Cake

We have mixed of participants this week. Only a couple of people made the Peanut Butter Ingots. The rest, having already made them, bake to catch up.

Jane, having already made the Peanut Butter Ingots, decided to tackle both the Molten Chocolate Souffle and Lava Cakes and the Gingerbread Cheesecake. She was very excited about the Molten cake. This cake reminded her of a good Molten cake that she had when she was 11 years old, at Morton's Steakhouse in New York. Rose's cake had a lot to live up to, and unfortunately, it did not live up to the expectation. "Good but not worth the work or the wait or the anticipation.  I expected Morton's but instead I got Applebees. Maybe I've just built up the cakes in my mind since the first experience so that nothing can compare." 

For the Gingerbread Cheesecake, Jane went all out with a homemade crust. "The crust was part 1 and it ended up being particularly delicious." She had trouble with the caramel again, having to made 3 batches. I admire Jane's perseverance in her caramel-making adventure. It was all worth it. "The majority of my friends have tried almost every cake I've made in the past few months and they said it was seriously the best one yet.  The caramel on top was a delicious addition and the pumpkin in the middle wasn't too strong or too weak."