For those of you who know me personally, you know about me and pies. I would rather have pie than cake on my birthday, heck if we had found a pie that was anywhere near equal to my mother’s we would have had pie at my wedding! Making a pie has been a baking goal for a long time, it is also something that has severely intimidated me…probably for equally as long!
For Mother’s Day my parents got me a new book:
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| image courtesy of: http://www.marthastewart.com |
I have baked from two of Martha’s previous books, Cupcakes and Cookies and been quite successful, so I decided for Father’s Day that I should bake my hubby a pie.
I bought all my ingredients and was home with them by 3:30 pm of Father’s Day. I started making my dough, according to Martha you need to make a Pate Brisee. Little did I realize that the total refrigeration time for the entire pie would be a minimum of 2 hours. Needless to say, not much other than the dough got made on Father’s Day itself. I made full use of Monday morning nap time though!
Here is my gorgeous pie in all its glory.
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| Don’t you just want to cut right into it? |
I did!!!
And what is Apple Pie with out Vanilla Bean ice cream?
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| A match made in heaven 🙂 |
The hubby’s only critique was that it was not sweet enough, and on this one I had to agree with him wholeheartedly. Martha calls for only a 1/4 cup of sugar and it needed anywhere from 1/3 to 1/2. Have you baked anything out of Martha’s Pies and Tarts?
This successful pie gives me the confidence to try more a more complicated recipe next time! Now if only I had all the fancy kitchen gadgets that Martha recommends, maybe then everything in her books wouldn’t take twice as long as her recipes say they should!
