Shakespeare and Pie

Hello,
This is a monumental day for me! It is the start of my last semester of high school!!! Hooray!!! I am almost of here and on my way to bigger and better things! This is also the best semester of high school I have ever taken. I have about 3 real classes. Band, an independent study, a crazy block scheduling class, and Shakespeare. Shakespeare might be about the best class I have ever taken. The teachers are two of my favorite teachers from the high school. And the class is made up of people who want to be there to READ!! If you know me at all you know that I like reading. Between reading and baking my life is pretty complete. This class is the best of both worlds than. Because the teachers are allowing me to bring food to class. Hiphiphooray!!!!!!! (If you can't tell by the exclamation points I am a little excited!)
For the first day of class we are having a pie day!! I love pie. It is sooooo much fun to make and it tastes amazing. We are mostly having a pie day because one of the males, who is unskilled in the areas of food, demanded I make him a lemon meringue pie. Of course I jumped on the opportunity to make pie. So hence pie day.
I am just hoping that today and the rest of the semester are amazing. And with my schedule and my baking skills I honestly don't know how they couldn't be. So here is a lemon meringue pie recipe that can hopefully make your life better somehow. The recipe I got off allrecipes.com, but I put a little of my own flare into it.

Tradional Lemon Meringue Pie (with a twist)
Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup Argo® OR Kingsford's® Corn Starch
• 1 1/2 cups cold water
• 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
• 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon butter or margarine
• 1 pie crust made out of crushed Vanilla wafers and melted butter
• 3 egg whites
• 1/3 cup sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine 1 cup sugar and corn starch in medium saucepan. Gradually stir in water until smooth. Stir in egg yolks.
2. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly, and boil 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir in lemon peel, lemon juice and butter.
3. Spoon hot filling into pie crust.
4. Beat egg whites in small bowl with mixer at high speed until foamy. Gradually beat in remaining 1/3 cup sugar; continue beating until stiff peaks form.
5. Spread meringue evenly over hot filling, sealing to edge of crust.
6. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until golden. Cool on wire rack at room temperature for 30 minutes; refrigerate for 3 hours before serving.

Hope you have a wonderful life filled with pie and books!

Nancy

 

Better Than What?

Hello!
This week contained the birthday of one of my favorite people. Crystal! Of course since it's a birthday there MUST be cake!! We didn't have to be at school today because of semester tests, so we went out for lunch. The Chinese food was superb, but let me say the best part was the cake. If you have never had Better Than Sex Cake you sir are missing out. Yes the name of the cake is Better Than Sex Cake. I have heard it called many other names in my lifetime. Heath Cake, Better Than Sunday School Cake, and Better Than Anything Cake are just a few examples. This cake is amazing. One of my friends who had never eaten this cake before took one bite, paused, and said "this tastes like heaven!" The cake really is that good.
Recipes that are first described as easy and simple sort of annoy me. I know that things that taste good can be easy to make. But really recipes should not have the words easy and simple in it. Better Than Sex cake is easy yes, but it tastes as if angel wings can down and landed on your tongue. It is the best cake you can make. It just helps that it's easy! So please please please make this cake. If you know what is good for you you will make this cake and eat it. But try not to take it somewhere because you will want to eat the entire pan yourself.

Better Than Sex Cake
Ingredients
-1 box german chocolate cake and ingredients to make it
-1 can carmel ice cream topping
-1 can sweetened condensed milk
-1 tub whipped topping
-bag of heath bar pieces
Make the cake a directed on the box. Once the cake is done poke hole in it while it is still hot. You can use a straw for this. Pour the sweentened milk and carmel over the top of the cake. Once it is cooled you can put the cool whip on top and heavly sprinkle on the heath pieces. The cake is better if you let it sit over night, and if you do that do not put on the whipped topping until you are ready to serve.

Remember if you know what is good for you, you WILL make this cake!
Nancy
(P.S. Sorry there are no pictures my mom took the camera to California with her :))