Glazed Kiwi Pie (Siobhan)

~Glazed Kiwi Pie~

Our family loves this glazed kiwi pie. It's always been a big hit when we've brought it to family parties. I recently made it because we were studying Australia and wanted to have an 'Aussie' dessert.

Ingredients

• 3-4 ripe kiwifruits, thinly sliced
• 1 cup apricot preserves
• 1 T filtered water
• 1 8-oz package cream cheese
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 T heavy cream
• 1 9-inch pie shell

 Bake the pie shell according to the instructions. Make sure to poke holes with a fork in the pie crust before baking.

 Blend together the cream cheese, heavy cream, sugar until the mixture stiffens.

 Pour into pie shell.

 Top with thinly sliced kiwi pieces

 Mix together the apricot preserves with 1 T of filtered water. Mix constantly on low speed until melted to prevent scorching.

 Spread over the top of the pie and enjoy!

Click here for our Glazed Kiwi Pie recipe printable

Happy Easter 2016! (Siobhan)

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! Our family had a wonderful Easter, and we hope you did as well.

Dyeing Easter eggs!

We did a fun Easter egg hunt and had a wonderful Easter dinner with some friends from Tennessee.

Filia and C made some Easter bracelets. Click here to see our tutorial.

~Easter Menu 2016~

Pineapple Stuffing, Sweet Potato Casserole, and Cheesy Mashed Potatoes

Click here to see our Pineapple Stuffing recipe printable

Click here to see our Sweet Potato Casserole recipe printable

Grandma's Homemade Applesauce

Broccoli Salad

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Maple Oat Nut Scones

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For our main course we had Glazed Ham with Spiced Cranberry and Orange sauce.

Fresh Fruit and Lemon Trifle

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Chocolate Mousse Trifle

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Click here to see our Easter 2015 post

Click here to see all of our Easter posts

Cake Pop Craziness (Siobhan)

Cake Pops

I have really enjoyed making cake pops lately with my new Wilton Candy Melting Pot. It makes cake pops so fun and easy. This past weekend I made some marble cake pops and I decorated some with different types of chocolate. I also made some Pinnochio cake pops, because I am performing in a musical production of Pinnochio this weekend. (If you want to see my last cake pop tutorial, click here.)

Pinnochio Cake Pops

For these cake pops I used white candy melts and added chocolate icing hair, mouths, and eyebrows. Then I used white, blue, and black icing for the eyes. I topped them with a yellow candy melt hat lined with a blue icing.

I topped these cake pops with mini chocolate chips and sprinkles.

For these I swirled some semisweet chocolate with the white candy melts and topped them with mini chips and sprinkles.

Pots de Creme By: Connor and Siobhan

 ~Pots de Creme~

Tert gets most of the credit for us making this recipe. He found it in our Pioneer Woman cookbook and wanted to surprise Mom and Dad with it. We had all the ingredients on hand, so he and I decided to try it out. It was both delicious and easy.

Tert took most of the following pictures. He LOVES taking pictures and is turning into quite the little photographer!

 

Ingredients

(Yields 8 small dessert bowls)

• 12 ounces Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
• 4 whole Eggs, Room Temperature
• 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
• 1 pinch Salt
• 8 ounces, strong, very hot Coffee

 First dump the bag of chocolate chips into your blender.

 Add your room temperature eggs.

 Add in the eggs, vanilla, and a pinch of salt. Pulse about 10 times, then immediately start pouring in the very hot coffee. This will mostly melt the chocolate chips.

Continue mixing until the mixture is smooth, then pour into little dessert bowls. Place on a tray and refrigerate for 2-3 hours or until fully set up and chilled.

Top with a sprig of fresh mint or whipped cream and enjoy!