Chocolate Silk Pie

Recipe courtesy of Erin Seymour

Ingredients:
½ c + 1 T butter
¾ sugar
1 t vanilla
2 eggs
6 T cocoa

Directions:
Cream butter and sugar til fluffy. Add cocoa & vanilla. Blend well. Add one egg and beat for 5 minutes. Repeat with second egg. Put in graham cracker crust and chill for 2 hours or more.

Apple Pie with Walnut Streusel

Recipe courtesy of Holly Merritt (adapted from Raley's Something Extra magazine)

Pie Ingredients:
Prepared pastry for a single crust pie
1/2 c apple juice
1/4 c honey
2 Tbs butter
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cardamom
1/4 tsp nutmeg
3 lbs apples, peeled and thinly sliced
2 Tbs flour

Topping Ingredients:
2/3 c flour
1/2 c brown sugar
2 Tbs sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup butter
1/2 c chopped walnuts

Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Bring apple juice, honey, butter and spices to boil in a small saucepan. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring frequently. Place apples in a large bowl. Stir in apple juice mixture and flour. Pour into unbaked pastry shell. For the topping combine ingredients in a small bowl. Cut in the butter until small balls form. Stir in the walnuts. Sprinkle over apple mixture. Bake for 10 minutes at 425 degrees. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees, tent pie with foil and bake for 50 more minutes. Serve with ice cream.

Stove Top Pumpkin Pie

Recipe courtesy of Holly Merritt

Ingredients:
3/4 c sugar
3 Tbs corn starch
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1 c canned pumpkin
2 c milk
3 slightly beaten egg yolks
1 baked pastry shell

Directions:
In a sauce pan, mix sugar, cornstarch and spices. Gradually stir in pumpkin and milk. Cook, stirring constantly over medium heat until mixture thickens and boils. Cook and stir 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir a small amount of mixture into beaten egg yolks; return to pan. This step ensures that the eggs won't scramble. Return to heat and cook and stir 2 more minutes. Pour into baked pastry shell and chill overnight.

Cranberry-Apple Pie

Recipe courtesy of Andrea Simmons

Ingredients:

Directions: