Ingredients:

• 2 pints coffee ice cream
• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 3 Tbsp whipping cream (or condensed Milk)
• 1-1/2 sleeves of Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies (crushed)

Method:

Heavily grease sides and bottom of a 9 inch pie pan with regular (not light) stick margarine. Crumb cookies in food processor and press into pie pan.

Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees. Soften ice cream in refrigerator for four hours (or 1 hour room temperature).

Fill baked cool pie shell with ice cream and cover with wax paper. Freeze. Melt chocolate chips and whipping cream over lowest heat and spread over pie. Refreeze.

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Ingredients:

• 1 cup Sugar
• 1/4 cup Butter — melted
• 3 eggs — slightly beaten
• 3/4 cup light corn syrup
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp bourbon
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup pecans — chopped
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1 – 9 inch pie shell

Method:

Cream sugar and butter. Add eggs, syrup, salt, bourbon and vanilla. Mix until blended.

Spread pecans and chocolate chips in bottom of pie shell. Pour filling into shell.

Bake in 375 degree oven for 40-50 minutes.

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When we invited our friends over for Christmas this year, I only asked for one thing.  I asked for the apple pie pictured above and the recipe that went with it.  The fact that the pie dish pictured was also given to us was a bonus (and a very nice one, thanks guys!) but the real gift is a pie that I will gladly make and share with friends and family for the rest of my life.

I know I say this all the time, but the simple things in life are usually the best.  This hods true with food as well.  Overcomplicating a recipe usually does little to enhance the flavors of the food, it just adds extra steps that are not necessary. (There are, of course, times when this rule does not hold true, but this is not one of those cases.)

This has to be just about the simplest recipe for a German apple pie I have ever seen.  There’s no fuss, nothing picky or finicky, just a good-solid recipe that tastes far better than you would expect for the ingredients used.  In my opinion this is true perfection.

I know that statement may ruffle a few feathers.  Everyone has their own favorite apple pie recipe.  Of those, I’m sure that 99% would be a pie that I would enjoy as well.  But for me, Brie’s German Apple Pie is quite simply the pie I will crave whenever I think of apple pie in the future.  I’ve been spoiled, but I’m not complaining.

The recipe as given to m is only for the pie filling.  I’m not sure if she made her own crust or if she used a prepared crust, so I’ll leave that decision up to you.  If you’re bent on making your own pie crust, the best recipe I’ve ever seen for one is here. I am not a baker by nature, so if my wife wants to make a crust from scratch, great!  If not, I’ll use what I can get.  With this filling adorning it, it could be shoe leather, I really wouldn’t care.

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I can usually avoid desserts, but cheesecake is my weakness.  I can’t be in the same room with a cheesecake and not just have to have some.  It was love at first bite for me, and it’s a love affair I’m happy to say is still alive and well. That’s why when I saw a recipe for Turtle Pumpkin Cheesecake on the cover of a store circular, I knew I just had to make it.

I’m glad I did.  The result was an intensely mousse-like custard with the subtle flavor of a pumpkin pie covered in melting vanilla ice cream.  And you don’t need any ice cream!  This really is one for the “go to” list of recipes, especially if you’re looking for an alternative to pumpkin pie for the holidays.

A word of warning though.  This is a massive cheesecake.  You probably won’t want to make this unless you’ve either  got help polishing it off, or you’re addicted to the gym.  It’s good enough that you won’t be able to stop eating it, and according to the information on the unmodified version, each slice is going to cost you about a quarter of a recommended daily caloric intake. (My version is most definitely higher in calories.)

This thing is like pumpkin flavored crack.  It’s addictive.  You have been warned.

Now where’s my dessert plate?

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