Today is the launch of a fun new online magazine, Splendidly Homemade. It’s a lifestyle magazine filled with food, entertaining, home décor and craft ideas.
I was honored to be asked to be a contributor to the premiere issue. The winter issue features delicious holiday foods, creative decorating and gift ideas, as well as my Perfect Pie Crust Tutorial and Farmers’ Market Tomato and Zucchini Quiche recipe.
Splendidly Homemade is free online and the Kindle version is only $.99 cents. The editors of Splendidly Homemade are the talented Liz from Hoosier Homemade and Gina from The Shabby Creek Cottage.
The other contributors to the premiere issue are all talented bloggers as well: Amy from MomAdvice, Holly from iGoBoGo, Tiffany from Eat at Home, Kellie from Nest of Posies, Laura from Real Mom Kitchen, Jessica from Kohler Created, and Ashley from Ashley Pichea.com
I hope you’ll take a few minutes to check it out.
Since my pie tutorial is featured in Splendidly Homemade and Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner, I wanted to share some of my favorite pie recipes:
1. Blueberry Apple Mini Pies. I love berry pies and adding apples gives the filling more volume and a nicer texture. Mini pies are such a fun trend. You get a whole pie all to yourself!
2. Vanilla Bean Cheesecake. A rich vanilla bean cheesecake baked in a graham cracker crust, layered with white chocolate mousse and topped with chocolate shavings. Served with a fresh strawberry coulis.
3. Fresh Strawberry Pie. My daughter’s favorite pie. Instead of using junket, you use crushed strawberries in the filing, which gives it a stronger strawberry flavor.
4. Lemon and Berry Swirl Mini Cheesecakes. I love serving mini cheesecakes. Everyone gets their own little cheesecake, it’s easy to serve, and by baking a fruit swirl into the cheesecake, it’s already decorated and ready to eat.
5. Apple Cranberry Streusel Pie. My favorite pie for Thanksgiving. It’s a perfect combination of sweet and tart. A flaky pie crust is topped with a tart cranberry layer, followed by cinnamon apple layer, topped with a sweet crumbly streusel topping. My idea of a perfect pie.
6. Coconut Cream Pie with a Chocolate Crumb Crust. My daughter described this pie as amazing. It’s a rich, creamy pie version an Almond Joy.
So tell me about you. What’s your favorite pie? Feel free to leave me a link.
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I love to bake, especially cookies, cakes, and pies. I’ll post my adventures in the kitchen, my favorite new recipes, as well as our family favorites.
Congratulations! The recipes look wonderful and that farmers’ market quiche is mouth watering. I’m a lemon meringue pie kinda girl.
What an array of deliciousness, Barbara! Congratulations, your recipes are indeed magazine worthy
This magazine seems to be my kind of stuff, and I’m going there right away to grab one! Thank you so much!
I knew I should have had some breakfast before visiting!
Thanks SO much for being part of the magazine!! We are looking forward to many more issues!
~Liz
Yeah! Congrats on being a contributer for this magazine.I just looked around on it and it is wonderful. Fun and creative and yet splendid indeed. What an honor and you deserve it. Love all these pies you picked by my old time favorite is brownie pecan pie (will feature it soon!)
Barbara this look georgeous, congrats your recipes are amazing! gloria
A lovely collection of pies! all of them look fantastic.
Cheers,
Rosa
Congratulations! I’ll check out the magazine, that quiche looks delicious
The fresh strrawberry pie caught my eye too. Great recipes, thanks for sharing!
Congrats on the inclusion in the magazine – very nice! YOu are on your way to becoming a baking rock star!
I never thought of using zucchini in the Farmer’s Quiche. Don’t know why – I certainly have enough of it around in the summer. I put a little grated parmesan, garlic powder, and a little herb in my crust when I do mine. You don’t need much at all, just a small dose of each. When using the parmesan I leave out the salt.
I need to check out the magazine, and I definitely need to check out
ALL of those pies!!!
What a fantastic line-up of pies, Barbara! How exciting to be in the premiere issue of this magazine. I’ll definitely check it out.
congrats on the magazine!
i’ve been getting into more pie baking lately and i love it! yours all look delish, esp the coconut one!
that’s wonderful! congratulations!! you are such a good pie maker barbara
you always make pretty pies!
I can’t wait to read your pie tutorial!
Congratulations! How exciting!!! BTW now I really want pie!
wow this looks amazing! Congrats!
I am drooling over that top photo!
Very nice and well deserved Barbara!
Since you asked, one of our favorite pies is also a strawberry pie, much like yours. I long ago started putting a layer of sweetened mascarpone cheese between the crust and the strawberry filling though; keeps it from getting soggy but also oh so good.
That being said, my all time I could eat the whole thing in one sitting pie is a French Silk Pie. I love it the very most ever!
http://www.creative-culinary.com/french-silk-pie
Congrats!! How exciting! Now I want pie:)
Looks very nice! I am going to go check it out.
I’m not just flattering you when I say that quiche at the top took my breath away. The colors alone and I can only imagine how good it is. I’m a pie and tart person and I have so many favorites, sweet and savory. My most recent favorite was this autumn apple pie baked in a cast iron skillet with autumn leaf decorations. Not too sweet, perfect pie crust and pretty to look at. http://spinachtiger.com/2011/10/25/autumn-apple-pie-baked-in-cast-iron/
congratulations, it all looks so good!
Wow this is spectacular looking I just have to try this one!
Congratulations Barbara that’s very exciting!
I had my first ever pumpkin pie on the weekend and I have to say it’s pretty up there with the best pies ever.
Congratulations mum! And that quiche looks amazing-those tomatoes would give such a burst of flavour!
J’adore les tartes de toutes sortes
Je te souhaite une belle journée
Valérie
The quiche/pie looks splendid!
OH MY GOODNESS!! Congratulations!! You are pretty much my hero!!
that’s so awesome, way to go! everything sounds so wonderful.
Congratulations Barbara…and sure the pie looks awesome…
Hope you are having a wonderful week and thanks for the links
Hi, Barbara!
How exciting!
Congratulations on being asked to be a contributor for Splendidly Homemade!
Your pie recipes look super delicious! I must try the Coconut Cream Pie with a Chocolate Crumb Crust SOON!
Thank you for sharing!
Cheers,
Christi
Congratulations! You deserve it and much more!
I love all the colors and flavors
What a fun magazine! I’m excited to check it out! I also can’t wait to try baking another pie with your amazing crust. I still can’t get over how amazing the zucchini tomato quiche tasted!! I’ll definitely be making it again!
JUST GORGEOUS! Yay GF…so thrilled for you. Congrats!! That first issue looks splendid in every way! That first savoury tart is calling my name. We share ‘pie love’.
What an honor for you!!! Congratulations! Your pies all sound incredible…and I will definitely read your tutorial~
Congrats. I am not super “crafty” but I will check it out. GREG
So many pies, so little time! They all look super, well done on being featured in the magazine too.
Congratulations! I will absolutely check it out – I would even pay for a subscription if it came in the mail.
My favorite pie is a Dutch Apple Pie (with the crumb topping)… but I don’t have a recipe for it. Any chance you do, or know someone who might? Looking to get one on the table for Thanksgiving.
Look forward to reading the online magazine!!
[K]
Thanks Kim! I don’t have a Dutch Apple Pie recipe, although I read that Cook’s Illustrated has a good one.
Thank you everyone for all the sweet comments! I really have the best followers/readers/commenters/blog friends!
Barbara, CONGRATS! I’m so happy for you:) Your quiche looks amazing. I’m going to check out the magazine now:)
Congratulations, Barbara! They could not have chosen a better person or pie for their premiere issue! I can feel it..this is the start of the soon to come ‘Barbara Bakes’ cookbook! I actually bet my BF, when I showed him some of your amazing cooked and baked goods, that it would happen soon
Congrats to all the other lovely pie bakers too!
That is SO amazing Barbara ! Very well done, congratulations, we are eagerly waiting for the magazine ! Someday I wish to reach your level in cooking those delightful recipes
everything looks DE-LICIOUS! what a wonder line up of pies!
Congrats!! I can’t wait to check out the magazine. These pie recipes all look amazing! Thanks for linking up at my Thanksgiving blog hop!