My Casa Bella

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OR COME WITHOUT WARNING.

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AND THE OFTENER YOU COME HERE

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-Thomas Osbourne Davis



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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Gluten Free Chocolate Cookie Pie (Chocolate Town Pie)

This pie is one of the easiest,
simplest pies to make,
that is,
unless you make it
Gluten Free.
I've made this pie for years,
and just
LOVE IT!
But now with my Gluten and Wheat
intolerance's
I've had to stop making some
things.
But, now with great GF flours
out there,
I can make my favorite desserts
again.
The hardest part is the crust!
What a nightmare.
The directions tell you to place dough
between parchment paper
and roll.
Easier said than done.
I'm rolling it out like I did when I made
regular pie crust,
well big mistake, you can't do that.
You have to GENTLY
roll it out,
barely pushing down otherwise it
just separates.
It takes a lot of patience to make
GF pie crusts,
but it is worth it in the end.
Now after rolling it out,
flip it onto your
pie dish

Oh  my, now I'm frustrated,
they also don't tell
you that this is going to happen,
why bother rolling it out?
So after some fixing up, squeezing
together, piecing it like
a puzzle
Voila!
Looks pretty, heh?
Then they tell you to fold over edges
and crimp,
HA! Yea right, I wasn't messing
with it after what
happened, so I took a fork and press
along the edge of the crust.
Pretty enough!
So the filling I made GF as well, not
a problem there.
Filled the crust and baked it and
this wonderful
chocolaty
heavenly
sweetness
came out,
YUM!
I was a very happy girl,
that's for sure!
So, I will attach the crust recipe for you
(this is a pumpkin pie recipe but it has the crust recipe as well)

(I'm having some for breakfast can't help it)

Chocolate Town Pie:
9 in. unbaked pastry shell
1/2 cup of butter, softened
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla (there are GF Vanilla extracts out there)
1 cup of sugar
1/2 flour or Gluten Free flour mix
1 cup of semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup of walnuts or any nuts

Prepare pastry shell, set aside. Heat oven to 350. In small mixer bowl cream butter, then add eggs and vanilla. In separate bowl combine flour and sugar and add to the
butter mixture. Stir in chips and nuts. Pour into your pastry
shell. Bake for 45-50 minutes or til brown.
Cool for one hour and serve warm.
You can serve with ice cream or whipped cream.
ENJOY!

1 comment:

  1. Oh my goodness, that pie looks fantastic!!! I know what you mean (previous post) about not wanting to do anything that might 'mess up' the house when it's on the market. We've been in our house since 1981 when we moved from california to massachusetts. When we sold our house in California, it was listed on a Friday and sold the following Monday! So we totally lucked out with only having to be fanatics about the house being clean for 3 days! haha

    Regarding the new apt. with the off white countertop (which was my choice when we bought this house back in '81 but my hubby wanted the butcher block), maybe you could find a shade of off-white, creamy white that matched the countertop. Then there won't be the stark difference in bright white and the countertops. I think that would look great, having them the same shade of white, and even if it's a very, very off-white, it will be lighter and brighter than the dark brown cabinets that are in there now :)

    I hope your house sells very quickly for you. I should pretend my house is on the market. That might help me be a better housekeeper! haha

    Have a lovely Sunday!... Donna

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