Decorative Pumpkin Pie
15 mins
1 Pie
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Decorative Pumpkin Pie
Billie has a few tricks to share with you in this intensely flavorful pumpkin pie recipe.
Don't stock up on evaporated milk and white sugar! This recipe's secret ingredients make it a delicious variation of the Libby's classic recipe.
Recipe Ingredients:
For the crust:
2 cups unbleached flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup Crisco All-Vegetable shortening
Crushed honey roasted pecans for garnish
For the filling:
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons Saigon cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/8 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 15 ounce can Libby's pumpkin
Recipe Directions:
Make the crust first!
Stir flour, sugar and salt in a large bowl.
Cut the shortening and butter into the flour mixture using a pastry blender, fork (or your hands!) until incorporated into small pieces (about the size of a pea).
Gradually add cold water, one tablespoon at a time, until the dough holds together and you have a smooth ball.
Cut the dough in half. NOTE: The other half will be used for the autumn leaves on the crust.
Put one half of the dough on a large sheet of waxed paper and top with a second sheet of waxed paper. Use your rolling pin to roll the dough out into a circle.
Remove the top piece of waxed paper. Place dough side down into a 9-inch deep dish pie pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
Directions for the filling:
Increase oven temperature to 425 degrees.
Mix brown sugar, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, cloves and salt in a small bowl.
Beat the eggs in a large bowl. Mix in pumpkin and sugar-spice mixture. Gradually beat in the heavy whipping cream.
Pour into pie shell.
Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees. Bake 45 minutes OR, if you want to be super creative and add autumn leaves to the crust, bake for 30 minutes and add the leaves.
Directions for the leaves:
Use a small maple leaf cookie cutter and the second half of the pie dough.
Roll out the dough and cut out the maple leaves.
Use food coloring you have in the cupboard. Mix red and yellow for the orange. You can use black food color paste with a bit of water to make the veins on the leaves.
Place the food coloring into separate bowls of red, orange, yellow and black.
Use a small paint brush and paint the colors on the leaves. NOTE: You don't have to go out and buy an artist brush, just steal one from your kids or grandkids.
Brush with egg white when done.
Once the pie has baked the additional 30 minutes, take it out of the oven.
Brush the crust with egg white (just enough for one leaf at a time) and place the leaf on the crust. Repeat until you have lined the entire crust with leaves.
Place the left over leaves on a cookie sheet. Place in the oven with the pie and bake for 15 minutes.
Let cool and sprinkle the leaves with the crushed honey roasted pecans. NOTE: If your pie splits, you can place some of the baked left over leaves on top to cover the split.
Since the crust has a bit of sugar, the leaves taste like a shortbread cookie. Pile the remainders on a plate and eat with a glass of milk. Just remember, you did all the work so you don't have to share them if you don't want to!
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A note about ingredients used in our recipes:
When creating our recipes we use the following unless otherwise noted in the recipe:
Eggs = Large Eggs
All Purpose Flour = Unbleached All Purpose King Arthur Flour or Unbleached All Purpose King Arthur Flour Organic
Bread Flour = Unbleached King Arthur Bread Flour or Unbleached King Arthur Bread Flour Organic
Whole Wheat Flour = 100% Whole Grain King Arthur Whole Wheat Flour
Pastry Flour = Bob’s Red Mill Unbleached White Fine Pastry Flour
Almond Flour = Bob’s Red Mill Super-Fine Almond Flour
Tapioca Flour = Bob’s Red Mill Tapioca Flour (Tapioca Starch)
Sour Cream = Full Fat Sour Cream
Yogurt = Full Fat Yogurt
Milk = As indicated or if Milk is just listed you may use 1%, 2% or Whole Milk
Butter = Unsalted Sweet Cream butter unless otherwise noted
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Categories:
Pie Making, Pastry