Heavenly Homemakers

Crust:
1 ¼ c. unbleached white flour or whole wheat flour
¼ t. salt
5 T. butter
4-5 T. water

 

Stir flour and salt together. Cut butter into flour and salt until it looks like large crumbs. Stir in water until a nice ball of dough forms. Roll dough on a floured surface to fit a pie pan. Carefully place dough in pan and cut off excess dough. Shape edges of dough with your fingers. Prick the dough several times with a fork.

Filling:

2 cups canned or frozen pumpkin
2/3 cup brown sugar or sucanat
1 t. cinnamon
½ t. ginger
½ t. nutmeg
3 eggs
1 ¼ c. heavy cream

Whisk together all ingredients. Pout into unbaked pie crust. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the pie comes out clean. To freeze: Allow pie to cool completely. Cover top of pie with two layers of plastic wrap. Slide pie into a large freezer bag and seal. Freeze until the night before you are ready to serve. Refrigerate over night, then lay out on counter to thaw completely the next day.

To save you the effort of calculating how to double the recipe (cause 1 pumpkin pie is REALLY not enough!):

4 cups canned or frozen pumpkin
1 1/3 cup brown sugar or sucanat
2 t. cinnamon
1 t. ginger
1 t. nutmeg
6 eggs
2 ½ cups heavy cream

Crust for two pies:
2 ½ c. unbleached white or whole wheat flour
½ t. salt1 stick plus 2 T. butter
¼ cup water (plus a little more if you need it)

Kitchen Tools Needed:

 

Mixing bowl
Wooden spoon
Measuring cups and spoons
Small bowl
Small pan to melt butter
9×9 inch baking pan

Ingredients:

1 cup whole wheat flour
¾ cup brown sugar or rapadura or 1/2 cup honey
1 t. baking powder
1 t. cinnamon
½ t. baking soda
¼ t. salt
¼ t. cloves
2 eggs
1 cup pumpkin
1 stick butter, melted
Powdered sugar
Butter for pan

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and cloves.
Melt butter in small pan.
In a small bowl, crack open eggs and beat ‘em up.
Stir melted butter, eggs and pumpkin into flour mixture.
Butter your baking pan.
Spread pumpkin batter evenly on pan.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of your bars comes out clean.
Sprinkle powdered sugar on the top of the bars.
Allow bars to cool before cutting.
Makes 24 bars.

1/3 cup water
1/4 cup cocoa
1/2 cup sugar (I use rapadura or sucunat)
5 cups whole milk
1 t. vanilla
In large saucepan stir together water, cocoa and sugar. Bring to a boil. Stir in milk and heat until small bubbles begin to form around the edges, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.

Whipped CreamYum

½ cup heavy cream
¼ t. vanilla
1 T. powdered sugar (or a couple of drops of liquid stevia if you have some)

With beaters, beat cream until soft peaks form. Add vanilla and sugar. Serve in hot cocoa.

 

2 pkgs graham crackers
2 sticks butter
¼ cup sugar
2 – 8 oz. pkgs. cream cheese, softened
2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1 t. vanilla
Fresh raspberries, blueberries or strawberries

In a gallon sized Ziploc bag, crush graham crackers with a rolling pin. Melt butter in a small saucepan. Pour crushed graham crackers, melted butter and sugar into a 9 x 13 inch pan. Stir ingredients together and pat it down to create crust. Set aside.

In a medium sized bowl, stir together cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla. In a large bowl, whip the cream until soft peaks form. Add cream cheese mixture to whipped cream and fold in gently. Smooth mixture over the crust. Chill for at least two hours. Cut cheesecake into 16 pieces. Serve each square topped with fruit of choice.

 

2 sticks butter, melted
1 cup packed brown sugar
½ cup sugar
2 eggs
1 t. baking soda
1 t. salt
1 t. vanilla
2 ½ cups whole wheat flour
1 cup milk chocolate chips

Cream butter and sugars. Add eggs and stir. Mix in baking soda, salt and vanilla and flour. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet and allow to cool on wire rack.

 

8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sucanat or brown sugar
1/2 t.vanilla

Cream all ingredients together and serve with apple slices. Yum!