Everything Sirious
Definitely a five star bake, and pretty easy at that. This recipe came from Sarah Kieffer’s The Vanilla Bean Baking Book (highly recommend), pg. 39. With the exception of an orange and maybe the bittersweet chocolate, it has ingredients probably sitting in your baking pantry. It does require a little dough rolling but minimal; also ten minutes in the freezer at one point. It made 8, next time I might cut them smaller and double the amount. Just delicious!!!
Today’s bake – an Orange Pie from Sarah Kieffer’s cookbook, The Vanilla Bean Baking Book. I have renamed this pie the Orange Dreamsicle Pie, oh my goodness. To start with it’s a homemade graham cracker crust. I still need to master the art of a non-sticky one that slides right out of the pie plate; Sarah uses a metal pie plate, maybe that’s the trick?. The main part of the pie is similar to key lime pie, instead using orange juice (sweetened condensed milk, egg yolks, lemon juice, heavy cream). The topping is a whipped cream that has four ounces of cream cheese in, just a touch of sugar, some Triple Sec (I used Grand Marnier), orange zest, and a scraped vanilla bean – this results in a cream topping that holds it’s shape, has nice subtle flavors, but is not too sweet. All together, just a dream!
