My husband loves McDonald's apple pies and now my kids do too! He misses the deep fried pies but has gotten used to the baked version. We found this recipe and had to try it for our dessert. I just used some of our home-canned apple pie filling for filling and served with vanilla ice cream. The crust was nice and flaky. These will be a repeat at our house!
My husband suggested that I share my adventures because I'm always trying something new I found. I dabble in a little of everything: cooking, baking, sewing, decorating and doing things cheap. I'm on a tight budget so I look for things I can do myself.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Lowfat Eclair cake
I was craving chocolate but wanted to keep it healthier, so I made some changes to the recipe I tried before. This will be my go to recipe for summer!
Lowfat Eclair Cake
(Original recipe found here.)
Crust:
1 cup water
1/2 cup butter
1 cup flour
4 large eggs
Filling:
1 cup vanilla greek yogurt
1 large box chocolate sugar-free instant pudding
3 cups milk
Topping:
1 8 oz. container cool whip
chocolate syrup
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 400. Lightly grease a 9"X13" glass baking pan.
For the Eclair Crust: In a medium saucepan, melt butter in water and bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Stir in flour. Mix in one egg at a time, mixing completely before adding another egg. Spread mixture into pan, covering the bottom and sides evenly. Mixture will be very wet.
Bake for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and let cool (don't touch or push bubbles down).
For the Filling: In medium bowl make chocolate pudding by beating the pudding mix and the milk for 3 minutes and put in the fridge until set. Make sure pudding is thick before mixing in the greek yogurt until smooth. Let cool in fridge.When the crust is completely cooled, pour filling in. Top with layer of cool whip however thick you want it and serve with a drizzle chocolate syrup
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Lalaloopsy cake!
My daughter was going to have her birthday while we were at grandma's house for Easter. I wanted to still make a fun cake for her but it was going be a little more challenging because I wouldn't be in my own kitchen.
I looked around Pinterest and found my inspiration.
I made a batch of fondant and planned to cut out buttons, table and chairs later. I was short on time and so I made lots of mistakes but in the end, it turned out because the little girls loved it!
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