Saturday, March 14, 2009

July 2008 - Desserts

July 2008
Desserts!
At the home of: Stacy Hart

Peanut Butter Pie
From the kitchen of: Angela Rivers

2 prepared graham cracker pie crusts
8 oz cream cheese
2 cups crunchy peanut butter
1 3/4 cup sugar
1 cup milk
13 oz Cool Whip

Cream together all ingredients but Cool Whip. Fold in Cool Whip. Pour mixture into crusts. Freeze. Serve frozen with Cool Whip and a cherry.



Lemon Bars
From the kitchen of: Stacy Hart

Crust:
2 cubes margarine or butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 cups flour

Topping:
4 eggs, beaten
2 lemons
2 cups sugar
4 Tbsp flour
1 pinch salt

Melt butter and mix with crust ingredients. Pat into 7x11 greased pan. Bake at 300 degrees for 25 minutes. Grate or zest the rind off of the lemons and then juice them. Mix juice, zest, eggs, sugar, flour and salt for the topping. Pour over crust and bake at 300 degrees for 30 minutes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Cool before taking out of pan. 


Apple-Wrapper Pie
From the kitchen of: Shana Hart

Crust:
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup + 1 Tbsp shortening
2-3 Tbsp cold water

Filling:
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup flour
4 cups tart apples, peeled & thinly sliced
1 Tbsp butter
Sprinkle of cinnamon & sugar

For the crust: Mix flour and salt. Cut in shortening using pastry blender until small pea size. Sprinkle with cool water 1 Tbsp at a time. Toss with fork until all flour moistened. Gather into a ball. On floured surface roll out to fit size of baking sheet. Add to baking sheet w/ sides and cover with saran wrap.

For the filling: Mix flour and brown sugar in a big bowl. Stir in apples. Mound apple mixture in center of crust within three inches of the edge of the crust. Cut butter into small pieces and sprinkle over. Fold edges over apples. Bake 30-35 minutes at 425 degrees. Cover center with aluminum foil for the last 10 minutes of baking. 


Zucchini Bread
From the kitchen of: Becky Maher

3/4 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups shredded zucchini, skin on
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 Tbsp cinnamon
3 cups flour

Mix wet ingredients together. Add sugars. Add flour last. Grease bottom of pan only. Lower rack in oven so top of bread is in the middle. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes in the pan.

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