Continuing with the Valentine heart theme, I topped these pecan tarts with heart-shaped pastry cutouts. Any shape cutout will do, depending on the occasion, so maybe small snowflakes would be great for winter and little flowers for spring. Individual, bite-size treats are so hard to resist since you can count exactly the number of portions you take, and can decide to stop at one, two or three tarts. For myself, I think I had more than that in one sitting—so much for portion control. Continue reading
Category Archives: Pies
Irresistible Pecan Pie
Pecan pie is so simple and easy to make, it’s hard to imagine how something so delicious can be made out of such plain ingredients. I made the basic pie pastry recipe and used one half of the dough for the pie. The dough can be made Continue reading
Caramel Tarts – Tutorial
Mini tarts are to pies as cupcakes are to cakes. They are miniature individual portions of their larger kin, and more easily portable. So portable that, why, you can even carry a wrapped one in your shirt pocket, not that you would want to, but you could. These caramel tarts are Continue reading
Piefecta Trifecta
Apple pie, blueberry pie, cherry pie, oh my! A piefecta trifecta indeed. While I’m on the subject of pies I thought I would revisit these pies I baked earlier this year, in the winter to be exact. Now what Continue reading
Apple Pie Tutorial
The scent of apple pie baking in the oven is like no other. It is my family’s favorite. Even if I were to bake a million and one fabulous cakes, and then ask them what they would like me to bake next, the answer would always be apple pie. I usually bake pies starting in the autumn through winter, but that’s not to say I’ve never baked them in the summer, because I have, Continue reading
























