Sweety Pies Book Review

Pies, Pies & Sweety Pies! Over 70 old fashioned homemade pie recipes and personal anecdotes are packed into this wonderful cookbook. You'll be drooling the whole time!

This has been a busy week of baking and writing and writing and baking. For me, the two go hand-in-hand. I take photos as I bake - or cook - and keep a journal of each and every step. I then go back to the computer and format my thoughts, tweaking words and cropping pictures. In the end, I hope for a spectacular blog entry and/or article for my Baking & Desserts topic. This week was no different.

I started out by making a Peanut Butter Torte for my Tuesdays With Dorie baking group, which by the way, has grown to over 180 bakers! It came out wonderful, full of chocolate and peanut butter and Oreo cookies!

Last week, I guilted my kids into buying Mom a shiny new Cuisinart 9-speed hand mixer for Mother's Day. I put a post on my blog telling them what I really, really wanted, all in a Spice Girls kind of song-and-dance routine! They fell for it and now I'm the proud owner of a brand new brushed stainless baby! And let me tell you, this thing is powerful! I needed to make something with it ASAP! So, I made a Florida Pie (aka Key Lime) for TWD as well. Now, it's on to the whipped cream.

In the middle of all this, I had a delicious new cookbook to review called "Sweety Pies" by Patty Pinner. The article was way too long, so ended up being three tasty articles along with Patty's Flaky Pie Crust Recipe and a Peanut Butter Cream Pie that is out of this world! Try them and see if you don't agree!

Speaking of Peanut Butter, don't forget to try a batch of The Best Peanut Butter Cookies!