Most years we host Rosh Hashana dinner. I decided this year to make an apple pie and a chocolate banana cream pie. For those who don't know the holiday, it's Jewish New Year and one of the things we do is apple and honey.
For the apple pie, I used Barefoot Contessa's Deep Dish Apple Pie and Perfect Pie Crust. Once again, I had the same issue as last month, not enough filling. I should've bought more Granny Smith apples! I decided to go back into my fridge and grab whatever apples I had on hand, honeycrisp apples. It seemed like a cute idea with the whole apple and honey theme. However, I overdid and then had TOO much filling. I grabbed my tiny pie pan. Unfortunately I didn't have enough extra crust to make a top crust so I grabbed my Better Home and Garden's New Cook Book and used the topping from the Apple crisp recipe. The apple pies were...okay. I won't ever use honeycrisp again. The pie filling was sorta like chunky applesauce. I still served it, but with lots of ice cream.
The banana cream pie recipe from Sugarcrafter's blog. I picked it because it had whole pieces of banana and not banana flavored pudding or something. I like bananas, just not artificially flavored banana. Though I baked it as directed, this pie never set up for me. The idea of runny chocolate pie was, to say it nicely, unappetizing. I tried to make it better by mixing the filling all up and then popping it in the refrigerator to set. But now it looked like brown liquid in a pie shell. Ew.
I was so disappointed since this has happened several times to me with cream pies. I didn't even bother serving it at dinner. Instead, I made some magic brownies and people adored them. Whew!
I also made round challah bread. However, I will feature that recipe another time.
Now Bake That! (but only with granny smith apples)
and that!
and that!
