Whole Pie

I say PB, but I LOVE PB! Do you know if the judges have food allergies? Seems everyone has some food allergy these days. Anyway, you don't want to lose just because one of them can't try it. :)

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lemon merangue - there are so many people with citrus trees out here that it's a wonderful pie to serve this time of year.

I'd vote for the PB too. It seems a little more unique than the pecan. Good luck!

Hobbymommy, 38, is a discussion leader from Mesa. She is a happy stay-at-home mommy to a 3-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old son.

Well, I am a Kentucky girl so of course my vote is for pecan pie (minus the bourbon since this is a school vent,lol).......but one of the posters had a point about the nut allergies being so prevalent..............the below recipie is for a cake, but this is a major hit whenever I make it and it is pretty simple.....people just go nuts over it and say it tastes like a Krispy Kreme doughnut....even if you don't make it for this event, you should try it sometime!

Kentucky Butter Cake

INGREDIENTS
3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 cups white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup butter
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 eggs

3/4 cup white sugar
1/3 cup butter
3 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
In a large bowl, mix the flour, 2 cups sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
Blend in buttermilk,1 cup of butter, 2 teaspoons of vanilla and 4 eggs. Beat for 3
minutes at medium speed.
Pour batter into prepared pan.
Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted into center
of cake comes out clean. (inappropriate term) holes in the still warm cake. Slowly pour sauce over cake.
Let cake cool before removing from pan.

To Make Butter Sauce: In a saucepan combine the remaining 3/4 cups sugar,
1/3 cup butter, 2 teaspoons vanilla, and the water. Cook over medium heat,
until fully melted and combined, but do not boil.

Here's one of my kids favorites:

Pretzel pie desert

2 cups crushed pretzels
3/4 c. sugar
3/4 c butter
mix and press in 9inch pie pan
save 1/2c for top

1carton whip topping
8 oz, cream cheese
1 tsp. of vanilla
1 c. confection sugar
Mix well and spoon half over pretzel

Next layer:
21 oz. can of cherry or blueberry pie filling
Put remaining cream cheese mixture over pie filling

sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup of pretzle mix over top.
Refrigerate..

" just my Opinion"

I love pecan pie but not everyone does. I'd go with peanut butter.

Susie is a discussion leader in the east valley for arizonamoms.com. She has two sons, ages 7 and 3.

I would make the Kentucky Butter Cake! That looks yummy, I am going to try that this weekend! :)

Jennifer is a discussion leader for arizonamoms.com and mommy to four beautiful girls who range from 9 to 4 years of age.

Thanks everyone. Wish I had read this yesterday, for my Mom's birthday I made her a box cake,could have impressed her with Katy's recipe. Differentdrum's recipe sounds yummy too.

What is buttermilk anyway?? Is there a substitution that can be used, or is there a way to make it, does anyone know.

I think I"ll go with PB Pie, that is a bit more original, and my pecan pies come from the recipe on the KARO syrup can anyway, so no family secrets there.

I think a pie judge with a nut allergy would be really lame, surely one would have to be able to eat all kinds of pie. We'll see!

Lovemy4 is a discussion leader for North Central Phoenix, tired mother of 4 great kids and wife to one great husband.