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Cheesecake Brownie Pie

Oh, the Chocolate in the middle of this pie.

Good morning everyone on this rain-fresh, North Florida morning. The birds are singing, loudly this morning so I know that they are happy! I wish the very same for you this day. Happiness and singing.

This is a brownie cheesecake pie that I made. It looks like blueberry pie, but that is all chocolate brownie that you see, with my attempt at decorating swirls across the top.

This pie does take time to prepare and it will feed a Family reunion with just a sliver of a slice, as it is so very rich and chocolatey. It ranks right up there with tiramisu in the Olive Garden.

Ok, here is the recipe.

Pretzel Crust 4 c pretzels

1/3 c sugar and 1/2 cup of melted and unsalted butter.

Put these ingredients into a food processor and crush thoroughly. Butter a glass deep-dish pie pan and mash the crust mixture into the pan.

Bake the crust at 350 degrees for 10 minutes (only).

Brownie recipe part

4 large eggs and 1 1/2 c sugar and 1 c unsalted butter at room temp. Whip it up in the mixing bowl. Add 3 tsp of vanilla extract.

1 1/2 c self-rising flour with 10 TBSP cocoa powder. Hand whisk together in a medium bowl. Add 1 tsp of salt.

Time to add in the flour mixture and have chocolate flying around in the air. Just add a little at a time and do the best that you can on a lower speed of the mixer.

Spoon this luscious brownie batter into the pie crust and set it aside for a few minutes.

Cheese-cake like topping recipe

8 oz softened cream cheese

1 c of powdered sugar (sifted).

Milk by the spoon, until this, is spreadable. Not too thin! But not too thick or it will not spread over the brownie mixture!

Beat all this together in the mixing bowl.

Place the pie on a large pizza pan as it will flow over the sides( if you use 2 eggs). Pour the cheesecake-like mixture over the top of the brownie batter.

Attempt to create swirls and drag-thru lines.

Bake for 1 hour at 350 degrees and then turn off the oven and let sit in the oven with the door ajar for 30 minutes so it won’t crack. But as you see, it looks cracked anyway with the swirl attempt.

This pie is chocolate heaven! But it is so very rich, that I am not kidding, you will need a ton of people to share this pie with!

Caution, cut in thin slices!

Hope that you will try this recipe and share it with lots of good friends or family or even better yet, a homeless shelter so that they could have a chocolate experience that might bring them some joy.

PS, the finished pie was so UGLY that I chose to show you the middle of the pie!

So, I give you flowers for an apology!

Thank you for stopping by today! I will post another item on Saturday.

Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNOES

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Vanilla Bean-Strawberry Ice-Cream Pie

Ice Cream Pie in the making!
This is the finished result of my vanilla-bean ice-cream/strawberry cookie pie.

Good early morning, everyone. I am up am posting early this Tuesday morning from North Florida. I do hope that your day is good.

I was in my kitchen, yesterday and put this ice-cream pie together for our weekly card game. This was a hit with everyone and I will be making it again in a different flavor as there could be endless combinations to be made.

You could exchange the cookies for Reese cups or my favorite, Turtle candy or other cookie flavors. Just use your imagination and this dessert will be received well at any event, I, kid you not.

On to the recipe!

One box of Vanilla Bean Ice-Cream (Walmart-Great Value).

I bag of Vanilla Cream cookies 1 bag of Strawberry Cream cookies (Save-A-Lot).

On the day that you will be making this awesome dessert, let your Ice-Cream thaw out half-way. Do this early in the morning or at night the day before. This recipe only takes about 15-20 minutes to prepare.

I used 12 vanilla cream cookie in the food processor to make the crumb crust with and added 2 TBSP of melted butter to a pie dish. The crumbs were still a little to dry to combine well so I added 1 TBSP of milk at a time, just to get the right texture, damp but not soggy. It took 2 TBSP of milk for me.

Next you spoon half of the ice-cream over the crust and spread with a butter knife. Then you break up some strawberry cream filled cookies into medium sized chunks and top with those. Last but least, you put just a very small amount of strawberry cream filled cookie into the food processor to make fine crumbs to just barely sprinkle over the top.

This recipe is not a diet recipe. This is for the folks that like to eat! I hope that you will try this as it is very easy to make and very cheap to make. It might be cheap, but the taste is Grand!

Thank you for your visit today and stay awhile if you can! Do come back to visit as you are all Welcome to browse and share any recipe that you like. I will post again on Thursday-Saturday and Tuesday. Connie B. #CONNIEBRECIPESWISDOMFORPENNIES

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Cherry Pie

Fresh pitted Bing Cherries for a Cherry Pie.

Hello to everyone, on this beautiful blue sky, Florida day. It’s a great day for a pie! Cherries are not in the stores, as of now. This pie was made last year. I can hardly wait for the bing cherries to hit the grocery stores!

First of all, you will need two pie crusts. So buy them or make them up.

5 c of pitted and de-stemmed bing cherries that are rinsed well before pitting them.

1/4 c cornstarch 3/4 c sugar

1/8 tsp salt 1 TBSP lemon juice

1/2 tsp almond extract 1 tsp vanilla extract

1 egg whisked for the top glaze on pie 1/8 c sugar to sprinkle over the glaze

Use a large bowl and add in the cornstarch, 3/4th c sugar, salt, lemon juice, and extracts. Mix together with a spoon.

Add in the cherries and spoon mix to coat the cherries.

Use a large skillet to pour this mixture into. On medium heat, cook while stirring all the way through the cooking time of 9 minutes. Until it starts to thicken. Then reduce heat to low and cook for a minute or two.

Put this into a large bowl to cool to room temperature.

Next, you spoon the cherry pie mixture into the bottom crust. Add the top crust over the pie. Use a tiny dish of cold water to crimp the pie shells together (pinch).

Cut four small holes in the top crust for the steam to be able to escape.

Brust the top with the egg wash (can add 1 TBSP of milk) to the egg.

Sprinkle with 1/8 c of sugar. Refrigerate pie for one hour. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees and bake for one hour on the middle oven rack.

When this cools down after 3 or 4 hours, then it is ready to enjoy!

This ii a good pie and I hope that you try this.

Thanks for stopping by and do visit again I post again on Sat-Tue and Thursday. Thank you. Connie B.

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