Almond Cream Pie Or Pecan Cream Pie Recipes

ALMOND CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Prepare the Crust:.
• Preheat the oven to 375°F.
• Place the sifted flour, salt and butter in a bowl and use your fingertips to rub the butter into the flour until the mixture has an even, granular texture. Add the powdered sugar and blend. Sprinkle with the water, mix gently and gather together to form a ball. Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
• Butter a 20.5 cm (8 in.) tart pan with a removable bottom.
• Roll out the dough to a thickness of .5cm and place it over the pan without stretching. Press well into the bottom and up the sides, then roll the rolling pin firmly over the top to trim the excess. Prick with a fork and bake for 10 minutes.
• Prepare the filling:.
• In a saucepan over medium- low heat, make a roux by melting the butter and stirring in the flour with a wooden spoon. In a separate saucepan, bring the milk, salt and sugar to a boil.
• Add the hot milk to the roux a little at a time, whisking constantly until the mixture is smooth. Continue whisking and cooking over low heat for 5 minutes, until thick.
• Remove from heat and add the egg yolks and powdered almonds, whisking briskly. Do not allow the filling to boil after the egg yolks are added, or it will separate.
• Pour the filling into the pre-cooked pie shell. Sprinkle the sliced almonds over the top and bake for 20 minutes, or until the top is nicely browned. Cool completely and sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired.

PUMPKIN PIE WITH ALMOND SPICED WHIPPED CREAM

Steps:

• Heat the pie in hot oven to crisp shell.
• Whisk cream until soft peaks form, a couple of minutes. Whisk in almond liqueur or extract and season with nutmeg and cinnamon, to taste.
• Serve pie with flavored cream.

ALMOND CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F.
• Combine graham crumbs, 1/3 cup sugar and butter; press onto bottom and up side of 9-inch pie plate. Bake 10 min. Remove from oven; reduce oven temperature to 350°F.
• Combine 1/2 cup of the remaining sugar and cornstarch in small bowl. Stir in 1/2 cup milk. Beat egg yolks until blended; stir into cornstarch mixture. Bring remaining milk just to boil in medium saucepan on medium heat. Gradually add cornstarch mixture, mixing well after each addition. Cook on low heat 5 min. or until thickened, stirring frequently. Remove from heat. Stir in almond extract. Pour into crust.
• Beat egg whites in large bowl with mixer on high speed until foamy. Gradually add remaining sugar, beating constantly until stiff peaks form. Spread over pie filling, sealing egg white mixture to edge of crust.
• Bake 12 to 15 min. or until lightly browned. Cool completely. Refrigerate 3 hours.
• Melt chocolate as directed on package; drizzle over pie. Sprinkle with nuts.

ALMOND PECAN PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• To prepare homemade pie crust, place flour in mixing bowl; add butter and cut in with pastry blender. Add salt and then add COLD water 1 Tablespoon at a time. Mix and toss ingredients together with a fork until dough ball forms. Place in plastic wrap or Ziploc baggie and put into the refrigerator while you make the filling.
• To prepare filling, whisk the eggs, brown sugar, maple syrup, melted butter, vanill and salt together in a mixing bowl.
• Whisk.
• Stir in the pecans and sliced almonds.
• Once filling is prepared, take the dough ball from the fridge and place on lightly floured surface. Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll out the crust dough into a circle at least 12 inches in diameter and gently fold pie crust into quarters. Move the folded pie crust from the counter to the pie plate. Unfold in the pie plate. Pour filling into pie shell. Flute edges in your favorite design.
• Place pie crust shield over the top or use foil to make a shield to keep the crust edges from burning or turning dark brown while baking.
• Bake at 375 for 40-50 minutes, or until filling has set.
• Let cool completely on cooling rack. Refrigerate. It's easiest to slice pie when its cold!
• Serve cool with whipped cream or warm with vanilla bean ice cream. You'll have to imagine the dollop of whipped cream.

ALMOND CREAM PIE OR PECAN CREAM PIE

Steps:

• In saucepan, combine, sugar, salt and cake flour. Stir in milk and egg yolks. Whisk all smooth.
• Cook on med-high for 3 minutes while stirring. Turn down heat. Continue whisking over low heat until the mixture coats the back of a spoon and is smooth and thick.
• Take mixture off heat, stir in butter, and both extracts. Add chopped almonds. Stir until blended. Pour into bowl, cover and cool. Once cool to touch, pour into already cooked pie shell. Cover with plastic wrap, directly on cream(to prevent a skin from forming).
• Chill in fridge for 4-6 hours.
• For Topping: in a chilled bowl, pour whipping cream, powder sugar and vanilla. Whip until soft peaks form.
• Spoon or pipe onto chilled pie. Garnish with toasted slivered almonds.
• Variation: pecan cream pie: take out almond extract, increase vanilla extract to 1 teaspoon. Use chopped toasted pecans instead of almonds for filling and use toasted chopped pecans for garnish.