Receta Apple vs Pumpkin
When your given a choice, do you have a hard time making a decision? I do, when the items I have to choose between are both equally delicious!
This month a select few of the Allrecipes.com Allstars were sent a goodie box from Splenda. I was pretty happy to be in this group as I have cooked and baked with Splenda several times in the past. I remember in particular a pecan pie I made one Thanksgiving. It was when they had just come out with the Splenda Brown Sugar Blend. De-lish-ious! :) Nobody even knew it was made with Splenda!
I like to try recipes with Splenda for several reasons. One, it cuts the carbs and two, it reduces the amount of calories in your recipes. With Grumpy being diabetic, I am ususally trying to find ways that will allow him to have his cookie and eat it too.
This Apple Hand Pie that I made was really very simple. I made a few changes, such as making my own pie crust with white whole wheat flour and adding a tablespoon of butter and teaspoon of vanilla to the apple mixture. I wanted the filling to taste a little richer and in my opinion, adding some real butter does just that!
Now these Harvest Pumpkin Cookies were very delicious. As a matter of fact, they were inhaled pretty darn quickly. Record disappearance in the Grumpy Household. Grumpy told me I needed to make them again. I told him only if he he doesn't eat them all up in a day.
Which was our favorite? Well, I really liked both recipes. BUT the recipe we would probably eat over more time (as long as I hide them from Grumpy) would be the cookies. They are soft and have that nice raisin chew along with pecan crunch inside. Not to mention I did do the points calculations for the cookies and it came out to only 2 points per cookie. Purdy darn good.
So what would you choose? apple or pumpkin?
Disclaimer: Splenda sent me 4 full sized bags of their product to test their recipes with. I also received two coupons for money off of their product for future purchases. I was not compensated in any other way nor was I required to blog about this product. The opinions expressed here are solely my own.
- Baked Apple Turnovers (I added 1 Tbsp butter, some freshly grated nutmeg to the recipe and made my own pie crust)
- White Whole Wheat Piecrust
- October-20-2013
- Ingredients
- 1 cup white whole wheat flour
- 1/3 cup crisco shortening (solid)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons ice cold water
Instructions
Using a pastry blender or a fork, blend the flour, salt, and shortening until mixture resembles small "pea" like crumbles.Using a fork, Stir in ice cold water, 1/2 tablespoon at a time, until mixture begins to form a ball. Remove from mixing bowl and shape dough into ball. Divide into four pieces to make hand pies. Dough is very fragile, please work carefully :)You can also use this dough to make a pre-baked pie crust for pudding pies, or in a savory tart, just add your filling to the unbaked crust and bake as recipe states.
Details
Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: Total time: Yield: 1 single piecrust