baking for camp visiting day. baked brownies from nick malgieri’s chocolate book AND blondies from the recipe on the back of nestle’s milk chocolate chips bag.
also decided to try my luck at blueberry/raspberry hand pies (using the berries i picked at martha’s house!) and i made from memory a blueberry/raspberry crumble with the leftover filling…and some crumb topping.
here are the blondies.
and then packed for freezing.
brownies. (used bberry phone)
blondies and brownies were both successes.
but.
the handpies…well… although they tasted good…DISASTER!
and out of the oven.
here it looks kind of cute.
i dont have a picture of the crumble but it turned out ok.
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jennifer
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Hi, Jennifer! Looks good! MAY we please have the recipe for the hand pies?
Ha! I think the handpies look the tastiest! So what if they were a little messy? I’ll have to try those; I’m sure mine won’t be much neater. We’ll just call them rustic.
The hand pies look good. Toss them on some vanilla ice cream! I hear you though; it would be nice if they had held together. Cute idea.
yummy.jenn.your kids will love them
Jennifer: You never, ever use any product by Nestle. The chocolate is nasty and there is a recall on their cookie dough.
Dear God. Those handpies look like baby seals – post clubbing season.
Hell. I’d eat it.
I’m guessing the pies could have used a bit less filling and a bunch more crimping around the edges for a tight seal. But they still look tasty good!
Too much liquid in the fruit. You didnt listen to Martha’s Pie segment that gave tips on how to reduce liquid when baking with fruit. One tip was to dry the fruit out by baking it on a roasting pan with some sugar at low a temp to evaporate the liqiud out of the fruit and into the sugar. Or I quess you could have added more cornstarch to the fruit.
I’d still eat those hand pies!
Why are they called “hand pies”? Is this a northern thing? In the south I think they are called “fried” pies. Interesting!
omg, i wish i had one of those right now with my morning coffee!
PATHETIC
I’d still eat the pies!! Good job Jen! We love to see your experiments too!
Find another blog honey.
I understand the term “hand pie” but it still sounds kind of wierd/gross. I think you should call your version “calamity pies”.
I think the hand pies look absolutely delicious!
Why is the dough all blotched with red? Alexis would NEVER do that…LOLOL…just kidding. 😉
Don’t get dissapointed, they look great. Just keep trying. That’s how perfecction works. Just keep trying until you feel good than that’s perfection , becuse you feel good about it, no matter what the other people said, just keep trying!!!! ..
GOOD LORD…You are asking for it by showing those horrible looking pies….omg…please find another hobbie cuz you suck at baking
I like the pie massacre. I appreciate your posting the pictures, because mine wouldn’t be perfect either.
HAHAHAHAHAHA…too funny
kind off gross looking would any body eat that
should have cleaned it up before you take the picture
Jen, those “hand pies” look like bloody potstickers. But, you gave it a shot atleast.
Makayla,
The mess was the point she was making…………
I like that Jennifer is messy. Alexis is such a clean freak so you need Jennifer to balance that out.
Its the Yin and the Yang.
Jennifer, You really did a lot of baking. I think they all look great. The hand pies, we’ll, after many years of cooking and baking myself, berry pies for me, anyways always look like yours in the picture, but they were still great right! The little hand pies take a lot of practice, like perogies, if you have mastered them , your good. Thanks for a new web site as well. Pictures were great and thanks for sharing. Did everyone like everything?Amy
Why don’t you leave the baking to Alexis? You aren’t very good and you look like you’re just trying too hard to be like her. Give it up. Find your own thing.
Don’t forget to put me in your CHRISTMAS CARD list…
those sure do look good…..
I’m trying to lose weight but that pic makes me wanna eat a ton of those sweets…
I really love those cherries that are yellow & reddish?
french name they have and are pretty costly too..good in that kinda pastry Jenny..
Nah. I like it here. Deal with it.
who in the hell is this Ms Elso? She’s a psycho. alexis, perhaps?
Hi Jennifer,
THose blondies look scrumptious, my fav!! The bags for freezing, what kind are they??? U should try Martha’s mini blueberry tart recipe YUMMY
love the idea of the hand pies – am going to give the recipe a try. thanks for posting! the sour cream dough sounds tasty and doable.
The website you got the recipe from looks just plain dodgy. It’s no wonder the hand pies didn’t work.
Where did this notion of individual servings come about? Let’s think back on this fortieth anniversary of Man walking on the moon. NASA I say instituted the individual portions for the astronaut in outer space. can you imagine an entire cherry pie floating about in the space module not so much any way– I say go back to the whole pie– okay the lunch bucket for the guys in the field needing a pie to hold in one hand to eat while out on the back forty okay– but how many are working the back forty these days?? anyway you will see mini bite this and that thank NASA but I say Pie Day and serve it up with a smile and the kids learn to wait their turn and they say please and thank you on Visiting day. it is all about gratitude and realizing you did not stop off at Walmart on your way to the event to buy a cardboard tasting offering.
Only thing missing here is the vanilla bean ice cream over those warm handpies. :oP Made me think of Grandma’s blackberry cobbler fresh out of the oven w/milk (my fave). As kids we would help her pick the berries down by the rr tracks. Seemed like a million berries (& chiggers). Just enough for one huge cobbler in a lasagna pan. We would gobble it up for lunch & dinner because it never lasted long enough. I’ll email my address, you can send those handpies to me. :o)
Psycho? Maybe. Alexis? I can only dream of achieving her level of fabulousness. Or Jennifer’s.
Now that your BIL’s garden is probably in full-bloom, I’d love to see updated pictures of his bounty! Does the family find they are using a lot of the harvest?
Well done. I think you overfilled the hand pies just a bit. Did you glue the edges with egg? Good try, as long as they tasted great, thats the goal. Caught your hint that you guys were not live today, I figured it was time for you to visit the kids. Hope they are having fun.
@linda pittsburgh said…
I really love those cherries that are yellow & reddish? french name they have and are pretty costly too..good in that kinda pastry
Oooh, Ranier cherries…my favorite. Their season is just about over. This week,Safeway has them for $3.99 a pound — down from $7.99.
Jenn, everything you baked looks “good enough to eat!” The chocolate brownies look moist and yummy!
Jesus Christ…what a mess!
Elso is a creepy, stalky weirdo who thinks the voices she hears on the radio are talking directly to her.
I like you.
I made hand pies on my blog and they were great. Yours even though their messy they look better than mine!! Will you please tell me what you think of my blog? http://www.thelittlecrumbs.blogspot.com