Strawberry and Cream Cheese Pie

 I have never made a Strawberry pie until last night.  I finally decided that I was going to tempt fate and try the recipe that I had come up with in my head.  I'm happy to say that it turned out AMAZING!  If you like creamy fruit pies, you will love this pie.

Ingredients
1 Pie Crust, baked and cooled
1 lb. Strawberries, sliced
1 pkg. Strawberry Danish Dessert
1 pkg. Cream Cheese
6-8oz. Sour Cream
2/3 cup Sugar

Directions
Make your Danish dessert according to pkg. instructions. Set aside to let cool while you cut your strawberries.  Mix the strawberries and danish dessert together.
In a mixing bowl, mix cream cheese, sour cream, and sugar together.
On the bottom of your cooled pie crust, layer 1/2 of the cream cheese mixture.  On top of the cream cheese mixture layer all your strawberry mixture.
Refrigerate to set up for 2 hours or more.  Enjoy!

Apple Pie Dump Cake

 I saw a recipe like this on pinterest, and decided to step it up a little bit.  I love a good apple cobbler/cake so when I saw this recipe, I just saw a few things that I thought were missing and decided to come up with my own recipe.  So here is your Stepped Up Apple Dump Cake.

Ingredients

2 cans Apple Pie Filling

2 Tbs. Cinnamon

1 tsp. Nutmeg

1 Yellow Cake mix

1/2 cup Quick Cooking Oats

1/2 Cup Pecans, Chopped

2 cubes Butter, sliced into Tbs. portions

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Grease a 9x13 baking dish. Dump in Apple Pie Filling.  Sprinkle your cinnamon and nutmeg on top.  Mix your cake, oats, and pecans, together and sprinkle over the Apple pie filling.  Evenly place your slices of butter all over the top of your mixture.

Place in the oven and bake for 45 minutes.

Serve with a scoop of Vanilla Bean Ice Cream. Yum!

Black Bottom Banana Cream Pie

In honor of my husband's 30th Birthday today, I am going to post my pie recipe that I make for him every year.  You see, my darling husband hates cake so therefore he gets his favorite pie every year.  Now I don't normally give out this secret recipe because it's so easy that I think people would think "She's doesn't know how to bake, that's just putting stuff together."  But once you taste it, I promise you won't fault me for making it easy.  Like I've always said, I want cooking to be fast, affordable, and delicious, so here you go.  My famous Black Bottom Banana Cream Pie....

Ingredients

2 graham cracker crusts (bought or homemade)

1 4-serving packet of instant Vanilla Pudding

1 14oz. can sweet and condensed milk

1 pint Heavy whipping cream

1 cup cold water

6 oz. Milk or Semi sweet chocolate (I use chips) chopped

 1/2-1 cup heavy cream

4-6 bananas

1/4-1/3 cup Powdered sugar

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Put your graham cracker crusts in the oven with a little butter brushed on and let sit for about 5-7 min. just to harden the crust.  Take out and set aside.

Chop your chocolate chips roughly.  In a double boiler melt chocolate slowly.  When chocolate is melted slowly pour in your 1/2-1 cup cream.  You are wanting the consistency of a ganache.

When the chocolate is runny pour 1/2 of the chocolate into the bottom of one crust and the other 1/2 into the bottom of the other crust.

Cut bananas into small slices and layer on top of the chocolate.  Pack them in there good if you like a lot of bananas.

In a mixing bowl mix vanilla pudding, water, and sweet and condensed milk.  Put in the refrigerator while you do this next step.

Take 1 cup of your pint of heavy cream and beat it until peaks begin to form.  

Take your pudding mixture out of the fridge, and slowly fold in the whipped cream with a rubber spatula.  Put the pudding filling 1/2 in one crust and 1/2 in the other, right on top of the bananas.

Take the rest of the pint of cream that you have left over and beat it until peaks form and slowly add your powdered sugar in large spoonfuls until it gets to the sweetness you want.  I normally use about 1/4 to 1/3 cup but you want to add 1 spoonful at a time so you don't make it too sweet.

Once the sweet whipping cream is done, spread on top of the pudding mixture.  I normally grate a few slivers of chocolate and put that on top of the cream to finish the pie.  Then refrigerate your pie for at least 3 hours before serving.  You want your chocolate to be firm.  Then cut and enjoy!!