S'mores Pie

I saw this on Life as a Lofthouse. This is my new favorite dessert. I have been making chocolate chip pie a few times a month because I love that recipe, but this was so good too so now I will alternate. This one is a MUST try!

S'mores Pie
slightly adapted from: Cookies and Cups

1/2 cup salted butter
3/4 cup white sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 (7 ounce) jar Marshmallow Creme (don't use regular marshmallows)
4 Regular sized Hersheys Bars, broken into pieces
wax or parchment paper

 DIRECTIONS: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a *9 inch glass pie pan with baking spray. Beat butter and sugar together until fluffy and combined. Add egg and vanilla until incorporated. On low speed add in flour, graham cracker crumbs and baking powder. Divide the dough in half. Press half of the dough in the bottom and sides of the prepared pie pan. Evenly spread the Marshmallow Creme over the bottom of crust. Spread the broken chocolate pieces on top of the Marshmallow Creme. Form the remaining dough into a ball and place it on a piece of wax or parchment paper. Top with another piece of wax or parchment paper and flatten into a 9 inch circle with a rolling pin. Carefully peel off the top piece of wax paper. Flip the crust onto the top of pie and peel off the other piece of paper. Pinch the dough together to form the crust. Bake for 20 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely and then slice and serve.

*The first time I made this I used a pie tin, the second time I made it I put it in an 8X11 inch pan.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie

Once again, I saw this and I just HAD to make it. I got it from HERE, Life as a Lofthouse blog. I may have just made the same dessert, two times in one week...However, I did have people over both times, but still. It was so fabulous, warm from the oven. And it seriously takes like 3 minutes to put together. So so easy and has my mouth watering just thinking about it again. This is so my kind of pie. Yummy, you must try this.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie
Recipe By: Nestle

1 unbaked, 9 inch pie crust (just a frozen one)
2 large eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup white granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup real butter, softened
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (I use milk chocolate because that is what I prefer)

Directions: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Beat eggs in a large bowl and beat on high speed until their foamy. ( about 1 minute) Beat in flour, and both sugars. Beat in butter, and then stir in chocolate chips. Carefully spoon into the unbaked pie crust. Bake for 55 minutes. (check for doneness by inserting a knife halfway between center and edge and it comes out clean) Let cool atleast 30 minutes to an hour before slicing! Serve with whipped cream or ice cream, chocolate and caramel.

Snikers Pie

My friend gave me this recipe, but it is from Taste of Home. This is the pie I wanted to make on Thanksgiving, but since Easton can't have peanut butter, and he wants to eat everything, I decided I better not make it. But, I have had it and it's very good.

5 Snickers candy bars (2.07 ounces each), cut into 1/4-inch pieces
1 pastry shell (9 inches), baked
12 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 C. sugar
2 eggs
1/3 C. sour cream
1/3 C. smooth peanut butter
2/3 C. semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 Tbsp. heavy whipping cream

Place candy bar pieces in the pastry shell; set aside. In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Add eggs, sour cream, and peanut butter; beat on low speed just until combined. Pour into pastry shell. Bake at 325 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until set. Cool on a wire rack.

In a small heavy saucepan, melt chocolate chips with cream over low heat; stir until smooth. Spread over filling. Refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight.

Coconut Cream Pie

I got this recipe from taste of home. I didn't love this pie, but it was good and super easy. I'd still probably make it again. But, I think I would prefer chocolate or banana cream pie for Thanksgiving...This was nice because it made two though and I was worried we wouldn't have enough pie. However, I took 4 pies and my sister took 4 and we both had some leftover.

Ingredients

1-1/2 cups cold milk

1/2 teaspoon coconut extract

1 package (3.4 ounces) instant vanilla pudding mix

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened

1 cup flaked coconut, divided

1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed

2 graham cracker crusts

Directions

In a bowl, whisk the milk, extract and pudding mix for 2 minutes. Let stand for 2 minutes or until soft-set.

In large bowl, beat cream cheese. Stir in pudding and mix well. Fold in 1/2 cup coconut and whipped topping. Spoon into the crusts. Toast the remaining coconut (I didn't know how to do this, but all you do is dump it on a pan and stick it in the oven for a few minutes, mixing it around until toasted) Sprinkle the coconut over the pies. Refrigerate until serving. I'm not sure how long you are supposed to refrigerate. I think mine were in there for a couple of hours and they seemed fine.

Double Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake

This recipe came from HERE but she got it from Allrecipes.com.

I asked Kyle what kind of pie he wanted and he said Pumpkin. Only problem is, I hate pumpkin pie so I didn't really want to make something I wouldn't eat. But, I saw this recipe and thought it sounded good because it wasn't pure pumpkin. I tried it today and besides being so incredibly fast and easy it was really good.

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust
1/2 cup pumpkin puree
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup homemade whipped cream (or frozen whipped cream, thawed if you are in a crunch)

1.Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2.In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Blend in eggs one at a time. Remove 1 cup of batter and spread into bottom of crust; set aside.

3.Add pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg to the remaining batter and stir gently until well blended. Carefully spread over the batter in the crust.

4.Bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until center is almost set. Don't worry if there are a couple of cracks; when you refrigerate it they will close up. Allow to cool, then refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight. Garnish with whipped topping before serving.

I just ate it with cool whip but I'm planning to make whipped topping for Thanksgiving. See recipe below.

1 Cup heavy whipping cream
3 tbsp of sugar (or 1/3 cup powdered sugar)
Optional: add a splash of vanilla

Put whipping cream and sugar in mixing bowl. Mix on medium for 2-3 minutes depending on speed, just until cream creates stiff peaks. Don't over whip it.