Thursday, November 22, 2018

Easy Key Lime Pie

This recipe is adapted from "Easy Key Lime Pie I" from Dinner2 from AllRecipes.com



10 egg yolks, beaten
(2) 14 oz cans sweetened condensed milk...28 oz total
1 C. key lime juice (different than lime juice)
9 inch prepared graham cracker crust
Cool whip and lime slices for the top

Preheat oven to 375
In a bowl combine egg yolks, sweetened condensed milk and lime juice.  (You do not cook the pie filling before pouring into the crust)
Mix well
Pour enough into graham cracker crust to fill the crust.  You will NOT use all of the filling.  The filling will NOT rise at all while baking.
Bake in preheated oven at 375 for 25 min.  It will still be jiggly when you pull it out.  It does NOT brown on top.
Allow to cool.
Top with whipped cream and lime slices.  (this is important...or this pie looks really plain)


Jacque's Strawberry Frosting

This recipe is from Jacque M. so you know it's good!  It is a light whipped cream frosting.

1/2 C. mashed strawberries (fresh or frozen) (measure after mashed)
3 T. sugar
3 oz softened cream cheese
3/4 C. heavy whipping cream

Beat strawberries and sugar in mixer.  Add cream cheese and mix until smooth.  Add whipping cream and beat until stiff.


Pecan Pie

This recipe was from a woman in my home ward growing up.  It is the best pecan pie I have ever tasted.




Mix the following in a bowl
1 C. white corn syrup
1 C. brown sugar (I do light brown, but you can also use dark brown)
1/3 C. melted butter
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt

Add
3 whole eggs, slightly beaten

Add
1 1/2 C. pecans (6 oz bag is 1 1/2 C)


Pour into an unbaked pie shell.  Cover pie crust edges with tinfoil.  Bake @ 350 for a total of 60 min.  Remove the tinfoil 5 minutes before finished baking.  The pie will still be jiggly when you pull it out.  Cool and top each slice with icecream or whipped cream.  It is very rich, so serve small slices.

Dinner Rolls

This was the recipe my Mom always made growing up, so now this is the recipe I make as an adult.



Combine
1 yeast cake (2 1/4 tsp)
1/4 C. warm water
1 T. white sugar

In a separate bowl beat
3 eggs
1/2 C. sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 C. melted butter

After yeast is bubbly, combine both bowls.

Add
1 C. water
4 1/2 C. white flour

Mix well with large spoon

Turn out on floured surface.  Knead and add a little flour at a time until the dough is no longer sticky.

Prepare a large clean bowl by spraying with pam.  Place dough in the bowl.  Cover with saran covered with pam.

Allow to double in size.

Punch down and fix the way that you want to (ie: regular rolls, crescent rolls, etc).  When fixed the way you want, dip each roll in melted butter and place on a tray to rise a 2nd time.


Allow to raise until doubled again.

Bake at 375 for 12 min.

When the rolls come out of the oven, brush the tops with butter.

For sweet rolls add an extra 1/4 to 1/2 C. extra sugar.

(If making crescent rolls then 1 batch should be split into 2 balls before rolling out.  1 batch makes 24 LARGE crescent rolls.)