I wanted to make a special dessert while we were camping. I had seen this recipe on Echoes of Laughter for a dessert roll up and thought it looked yummy. I had planned to get some strawberries, but when we got sour cherries in our box this week, I decided to use them instead. I also used chocolate hazelnut spread, hazelnuts, and dark chocolate chunks. I cooked them for about 10 minutes. They were amazing!
Skarsgard Farms, the local organic farm that supplies our harvest boxes, has been sending plenty of zucchini this month. When I searched for a way to use them, several recipes for chocolate zucchini bread came up. I’ve been trying chipotle chili powder in different chocolate recipes, some with more success than others.
This is one of the successful attempts. The original recipe came from Eating Well. The original recipe is delicious, my chipotle version adds a little kick.
So, I decided to enter a pie contest sponsored by Tidy Mom. First prize is a new range. Ours isn’t dying (yet), but the convection oven is appealing. I used two different inspiration recipes in creating this pie. Since I am really bad at rolling pie crust, I tried a no-roll crust recipe from allrecipes.com and substituted whole wheat flour. I also substituted whole wheat flour into Cooks.com’s crumb topping recipe. There is no sugar in the filling, just a little in the crumb topping. It tastes really good! If I didn’t already have pumpkin, I might try this for Thanksgiving!
Come join Love the Pie with TidyMom sponsored by Whirlpool and enter to win a new Whirlpool Range!
Happy eating!
Ruth
Our niece and her husband visited us last weekend to attend the Balloon Fiesta. Over the summer, she brought us a gigantic zucchini. I didn’t have time to cook it at the time, so I grated and froze it. I decided to use some of it for a dessert. I can always feel comfortable trying recipes out on them! Everyone thought this zucchini cake was, “So good!” so I am sharing this even though we didn’t get zucchini in our box this week. The base recipe I used for the cake came from allrecipes.com,with the addition of some dried cranberries.
Happy eating!
Ruth
We got apricots in our box two weeks in a row. A LOT of apricots. Since we are not big apricot eaters, I decided to make a pie to serve for dessert. I found this recipe for Apricot Pie with Coconut Crumble from Martha Stewart, but wanted to use an oatmeal crumble. I also decreased the amount of sugar. Our company gave this a thumbs up; and I hope you will, too.
Ruth