Sinfully delicious, better than youknowwhat pie!

Browned Butter Pecan Pie

1/2 cup butter, browned
3 large eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/4 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
1/8 tsp salt
1 cup chopped pecans

9 in unbaked pie shell

whipped cream

In small saucepan cook butter over low to medium heat until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Pour into bowl to cool.

Mix eggs, sugar, corn syrup, honey, vanilla and salt, blend in browned butter. Add pecans, pour into pie shell.

Bake 425 for 10 minutes. Reduce oven temp to 325 and bake an additional 40 minutes. Center will be slightly soft but will set up as it cools.

Cool completely, serve with whipped cream.

Paula and I made this for Thanksgiving...... it was so incredibly good.......we used a Grandma Ferndon's frozen pie crust......soooo sooooo sooooo yummy....so!

Sweet potato pie

Personally I think the secret to fabulous sweet potato anything is to bake the potatoes in the oven. The microwave works ok too, but I do NOT recommend boiling or etc.

2-3 sweet potatoes (about 2 cups), baked and cooled
2 eggs
1 1/4 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup powdered sugar (I am going to try brown sugar next time)
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
2 tbsp good quality dark rum
4 tbsp melted butter

one pie crust (I used a Gluten Free Pantry mix, but I prebaked it and let it cool, I just have better luck when I prebake those)

Preheat oven to 425. Skin the potatoes and cube, place in food processor. Run processor until smooth. Add eggs, milk, sugar, seasonings, rum and butter, run processor until well blended and no lumps or chunks.

Pour into prepared pie crust. Bake at 425 for 10-15 minutes, reduce heat to 300, bake an additional 40-50 minutes or until center is set. Add some mashmallows if desired and bake an additional 10 minutes or until marshmallows are browned and puffy (they will set as they cool)...enjoy!!!

YUM Apple Pie

OH this was seriously SERIOUSLY YUMMMY!!!!

I had a frozen GF (Grandma Ferndon's) premade pie crust in the freezer that needed some filling and so I did this:

4-5 large apples peeled and sliced, I used a mix of Macintosh and Granny Smith
Juice of half a lemon
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup Chebe cinnamon roll up dry mix
1 tsp cinnamon

Mix all that up and stick it in your pie crust. It should be pretty high, over the top of the pan, as the apples will smoosh together as they bake.

Then mix this for the crumb topping:

1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup Chebe cinnamon rollup dry mi
1/2 to 1 cup soft butter
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup rolled oats (if you can't find Bob's Red Mill oats, you can probably leave this out)

With fork mash all that to form a soft crumbly mixture and spoon that onto the apple's. With your hands kind of press it into the top of the apples. It didn't completely cover all the apples, some were poking out, but it didn't end up mattering at all.

Place that in a preheated oven at 350 for however long it takes to be brown and bubbly. I think it was about an hour, but I didn't really keep track of the time. Sorry.........at least I am being honest!!! Anyway, let sit till cool enough to eat and enjoy with some vanilla ice cream or whipped topping.

This was WAY yummy.....I think the brown sugar gave it a more caramel-ly taste, which we loved!!!!