Posts by pastrycake

I did a practice apple bag pie for the bakeoff. The crust turned out to messy. It won't hold and kept falling apart. I could not manage to roll it out. I used all lard as suggested... 1 cup lard, 2 2/3 flour.. 3 tbsp cold water (did...

I just found out that I do like scones. I thought they were just sweetened hard biscuits..but I tried one from starbucks and it was pretty good. I would like to make these..maybe cranberry scones.. any true and tried recipe anyone...

thanks for the tips, I think I will do apple pie since they said no nuts. I may try the brown bag apple pie recipe posted online. BTW, where can you buy lard:smiles:

I would like to enter the pie bakeoff at my kids school. I have only made a few simple apple pies, pecan and pumpkin in my short baking life. Anyone has any ideas or recipes that would give me a chance?

never tried black/white cookies..but are they suppose to be black and white or something:crazy: the recipe posted sounds like a good basic dough that could be used lots of ways right? would love it if someone could post sherry yard...

the show rarely post the other recipe only bobby flay. of course, bobby's fried apple pie lost to the elegant farmers brown bag pie. They mentioned that the recipe was from a cookbook 20 years ago. So it is not a new created...

after watching bobby flay throwdown challenging elegant farmer's apple pie baked in brown bag, I would like to duplicate it. unable to find the recipe since the bottom crust uses lard (pie crust) but the top crust is like a cookie. I...

thanks chefraz for posting the fudgey brownies recipe. I was curious as to your recipe using shortening and coco powder. Also 8 eggs but then 4 cups of sugar. All the other recipes keep saying that you need to use melted chocolate and...

I have not had much success with making fudgy brownies, but ina garten's barefoot contessa outrageous brownies was a hit once. It has instant coffee crystals in it. But the recipe has like a pound of butter. It made alot of brownies....

anyone have a recipe for linzer cookies or something to use up my apricot jam? shortbread like or buttery cookie prefered and good to package as gifts.:)