We have a winner!

Thanks to everyone that participated in the One World, One Heart event this year! Special HUGS to Lisa for all she does to make the worldwide event successful. I have made many blogger friends over the past year and this year over 1000 bloggers took part! Visit Lisa  A Whimsical Bohemian !

And now....drum roll please.....

my OWOH winner is.....

Hege-Annie's Paper Heart

Congratulations! I'm so happy for you! I need your address to get this in the mail tomorrow!

And now for a recipe 'winner'! I made a chocolate pie from scratch and added a few secret ingredients to put it over the top! It was so fabulous....you'll have to make it to believe how good it was!

Here's the recipe I started with! I googled chocolate pie and found it on this blog...Homesick Texan !

 

Grandma's Chocolate Pie

Filling ingredients:
4 tablespoons of cocoa or 1 1/2 squares baking chocolate 
3/4 cups of sugar
5 tablespoons of flour
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1 1/2 cups of milk
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
3 egg yolks, beaten slightly
1 tablespoon of butter

Meringue ingredients:
3 egg whites
1/8 teaspoon of salt
4 tablespoons of sugar

1/2 teaspoon cream of tarter

Mix your sugar, flour, salt, cocoa, eggs and milk (all except vanilla and butter).
Cook while stirring on medium until it bubbles and thickens, about five to 10 minutes. If it becomes lumpy, just beat out the lumps.
Remove from heat and stir in your vanilla and butter.
Meanwhile, poke holes in your pie crust with a fork and bake it at 350 until it’s brown, about 20 minutes.
Beat your egg whites with salt and when they start to get fluffy add the sugar.
Pour the chocolate custard into the baked pie shell and top with the beaten egg whites.
Add 2 T of sugar for every egg white. Bake it until it the peaks on the meringue are lightly browned, about 10 minutes.

Grandma, “It’s real good hot, wonderful cold and you can even eat it frozen then it’s like a popsicle!”

Crust:
Ingredients:
For the crust (makes enough for two):
2 cups of flour
1 tsp salt (I used less)
1/2 cup oil (she used to use corn, but I believe she uses canola now)
1/4 cup milk (I used water)

Now for the changes I made. I used 3 eggs instead of the 2 in the original recipe. I used cocoa but after the chocolate pudding had thickened, I added a square of Ghirardelli dark chocolate that I chopped in small pieces. In the crust I substituted Crisco shortening and in the meringue I added a little cream of tarter while I was whipping it in my Kitchen Aid mixer.  My milk was 2 % milk, so I added some half and half to make it richer. WHEW! I think that's all.

Adding the dark chocolate really gave it a deep dark chocolate taste. This is really a great recipe. Making pudding from scratch is a little tricky! Thanks Homesick Texan!

And here are the pinwheels my hubby made with the other pie crust. Roll out dough, cut into strips, cover with butter, cinnamon and sugar, roll up tight and bake for 10 or 12 minutes until brown. He LOVES these!

 

I love him and I love to BLOG! I meet so many wonderful people and learn something new every day!

Happy Monday! HUGS to you ALL!!! ♥♥♥