Turtle Pumpkin Pie recipe feeds 10
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By Melba Lovelace
Published: October 8, 2008
DEAR MELBA: Barbara Higgins requested a Turtle Pumpkin Pie recipe. Also, I would like to request a recipe. Ingredients include chocolate cake crumbs, crushed Heath candy bars, coffee, etc.
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Turtle Pumpkin Pie
¼ cup plus 2 table-spoons caramel topping
1 graham cracker piecrust (9-inch)
½ cup plus 2 table-spoons chopped pecans, divided
1 cup cold milk
2 packages (4-serving-size each) instant vanilla pudding mix
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 carton (8 ounces) prepared whipped topping
→Spread
cup of the caramel topping into the crust; sprinkle with ½ cup pecans.
→Beat milk, pudding mixes, pumpkin and spices with whisk until blended. Stir in 1½ cups whipped topping. Spread in crust. Top with remaining whipped topping. Refrigerate 1 hour.
→Sprinkle with remaining pecans and drizzle with remaining caramel. Store leftovers in refrigerator. Makes 10 servings.
Barbara Conrad, City
Lynn Garman, Oklahoma City, suggests warming the caramel slightly for easier spreading. Nita Paul Richards, Ardmore, thinks it’s better with 1 cup caramel topping and 1 cup chopped pecans, and she uses two graham cracker piecrusts.
DEAR MELBA: I recently found recipes calling for canned sour cream and also powdered sour cream. Any suggestions about where to find these? And can they be used the same as fresh sour cream?
Nita Miller, City
DEAR MELBA: Here is a Fresh Pear Cake recipe for Sally Fitzgerald.
Fresh Pear Cake
4 cups fresh, soft, chopped pears
2 cups sugar
1 cup chopped nuts
3 cups flour
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup cooking oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs, well beaten
→Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour tube pan.
→Mix pears, sugar and nuts. Let stand for 1 hour, stirring often so mixture makes its own juice. Add dry ingredients, oil, vanilla and eggs, stirring by hand. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes.
→When cool, wrap and store in refrigerator or freeze.
Helen Parkhurst
Hayes, Eufaula
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I thought the request was for a Pumpkin Turtle Pie with chocolate cake crumbs, crushed Heath candy bars, coffee, etc. in it? It's great you don't have to fire up the oven tho'.