A Few Good Recipes

No pictures in this post tonight!  I mainly just wanted to get these recipes typed up so I can have easy access to them instead of having them on little pieces of paper laying around. 

I love this chocolate pie recipe.  It tastes so very traditional and quite a few people have told me it tastes exactly the way their grandmother made it!  It came from a lovely old cafe that used to be in our hometown a long time ago.

West Gadsden Cafe Chocolate Pie

1/2 stick butter

5 Tbspoons Cocoa Powder

4 egg yolks, beaten

4 Tbspoons corn starch

2 cups whole milk

1 cup sugar

*Whisk all ingredients in a saucepan on medium heat until it thickens.  Before putting the egg yolks into the pan, make sure you temper them with a bit of the hot chcolate mixture so they won't scramble when you add them to the pan.  Stirring the mixture until it thickens  will be a gradual process.  Whisk constantly until it slowly turns to a pudding-like consistency.

*Pour into a baked pie shell.

*To make the meringue, whisk the 4 egg whites with 1/3 cup of sugar until stiff peaks form.  Mound onto the hot, chocolate pie and bake at 350 for about 5-10 minutes, until it's light brown on the top.

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I found this random recipe for muffins on the back of a piece of paper.  It's a weight watchers recipe and they are so good!  The pumpkin makes them extra-moist!

Spice Muffins

1 box spice cake mix

1 15 oz. canned pumpkin

1/2 splenda or sugar

1 cup water

2 egg whites

*Mix all ingredients together with a hand mixer.  Pour into muffin tin and bake at 350 for around 32 minutes. 

*Makes 24 muffins at 2 points a piece.  Yummy!  The reason I don't have a picture to share is because we ate them up so quickly.  Both boys LOVED them!