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Apple Slab Pie

04 Thursday Dec 2014

Posted by BakedNorthwest in Baking, Bloggerific, Desserts, Entertaining, Events, Holidays, Thanksgiving

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apple pie, apple slab pie, apples, butter, crisco, lard, pie crust, powdered sugar, shortening, slab pie

Apple Slab Pie

This pie was concocted during what we will call “The Great Apple Pie Test Session” by Lulu. She was determined to find an apple pie recipe worth making again and again. The best part about this “session” was:
1. All I did was taste test
and
2. She tried completely different pie recipes, so different you can barely compare them. (Apple Tart Tatin and Slab Pies are from 2 completely different families, I am quite sure the french would not be caught dead using the word slab, it’s probably not even in their dictionary).

Apple Slab Pie

I am most definitely NOT french and we can talk about “slabs” and eat them together all you want! And, as I will make sure to repeatedly tell you, give me a dessert in the form of a bar (I mean slab) anytime over a “slice.” I’m an on-the-go girl, and need to have as many bites of my dessert before I make it to the couch. I mean, the treadmill…

Apple Slab Pie

During this grand experiment, my mom discovered what may be the secret to pie crust: part butter, part shortening. We barely adapted Smitten Kitchen’s Slab pie recipe, and all we changed was the crust having both butter and lard (crisco, shortening, whatever).

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Apple Tart Tatin

12 Wednesday Nov 2014

Posted by BakedNorthwest in Baking, Desserts, Entertaining, Holidays, Thanksgiving

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apple, apple dessert, apple pie, apple tart, apples, butter, french, french cooking, pastry, sugar, tart tatin

Apple TartThis year Lulu has been testing apple recipes like a madwoman. All of us are pretty picky about our apple desserts. We have never been big pie eaters so it takes a lot to impress us…and this year we found out favorite apple pie recipes strayed away from the traditional Thanksgiving dessert. Continue reading →

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