Strawberry 7-UP Pie

This is one of those desserts that goes back to my childhood!  My mom made it for us and now my sisters and I have made it for years now.  It's very refreshing and the best part is the crust and it's oh so easy!  It's a buttery shortbread crust which happens to be the same crust we use for our Chocolate Pie!  You don't even have to  roll out the crust you just blop it in the pie pan then with your hands spread it out to the edges then poke holes using a fork!

Homemade whip cream tops this off nicely!  Recipe follows (whipping cream)!  You can use cool whip but you will never use cool whip after you make your own whipping cream.  It's easy peasy and taste so much better!

Truly this is one of those pies that you will make again and again!



For the Crust

Mix flour and powder sugar

Add melted butter and mix together

Dump into the pan

then spread out with your hands to the edges of the pie plate then poke holes in the crust with a fork (on sides and the bottom of the pie crust)

Bake until golden brown 8 to 10 minutes

Combine sugar, jello and cornstarch or flour

add 7-up and vanilla and cook until thickens

While filling is cooking cut up a pkg of strawberries

line the cooked pie crust with strawberries

once filling has cooled pour over strawberries

Chill until it sets

Heavy cream (I just happen to have 2 cartons one was partially full)

Start out on low then turn to high...beat until you get soft peaks

it's ready!

Strawberry 7-up Pie

1 large pkg strawberries

3 T corn Starch or flour

½ cup sugar

10 oz 7-up

Small or large box strawberry jello

Combine dry ingredients pour in 7-up cook until thickens stirring often.

Let filling cool add vanilla than add strawberries (cut strawberries in half)

or you can line the bottom of the crust with strawberries and then pour

filling over strawberries covering all…

Pie Crust

1 stick butter melted

1 cup flour

2 T powder sugar

Melt butter then add flour and powder sugar mix together then pat down into pie crust poke with fork on bottom and side of crust (so that the crust doesn’t

Shrink to the bottom) .. Bake at 400 degrees for 8-10 minutes until golden brown.

Whipping Cream

1 cup heavy cream (chilled)

2 Tbsp powder sugar or granulated sugar (add more if needed)

1 tsp vanilla

In a deep mixing bowl, beat one cup heavy cream until soft

peaks form. Sprinkle sugar over cream; beat until soft peaks

return.  Do not over beat.

Makes about 2 cups

If you have time chill your bowl before hand and beaters..

 

Angel-7up Biscuits

When I first made these heavenly things my first thought was "who didn't tell me about this recipe"?

I made these for the first time last week and now I have made 4 batches!!  First batch was for dinner which I halved the recipe (which made 4) then I made some for my pokeno friends (doubled the recipe),  finally last night in my cooking class we doubled the recipe again using a 9X13 pan. !

A few of you know my side kick, Blake.  He is a young man who helps me in catering and has come to my class for over  3 years now. Everyone loves Blake and he gets all the attention when he is around.  Blake is quiet (but I can get him to talk and laugh) so last night after he tried one of these biscuits he said hummmmmmm these are good!  I said Blake...... is that you?  Cause we have another guy who comes to my class and his name is Jermondre and he sometimes has to sit down he enjoys our food in class so much!  He makes all kinds of good food noises which always makes all of us laugh!  Last night he was taking home 6 cinnamon rolls and he said I'm not sharing these with my family.... then he said but they are going to smell them in the car...Man.....I guess I'll have to share!


Oh my, I felt like I did when I found the Refrigerator Yeast Rolls recipe 7 years ago... it was like I found gold! 

There is a restaurant in Waxahachie called Cancun's (a kinda hole in the wall)  and by the name you would think they only have mexican food.  Nope, not only do they have Mexican food they have breakfast all day and with the breakfast they have these heavenly biscuits (from 7:00 a.m to 10:00 am) that taste very very very close to this recipe! They also have American food and when you come in they greet you like family!

Just last week I told myself I am going to try and find that recipe!  I haven't eaten at Cancun's in several months but they are so good I think about those biscuits often, I'm not even a big biscuit girl!  So last week on pinterest I found this recipe!  If you're not on pinterest you need to be!   There is so much great ideas on there!!!

* you can use a biscuit cutter, glass, cookie cutter (round) or something you have in the kitchen to cut circles.  I like to mound my dough up and make a thicker biscuit.

after cutting biscuits you just place them in melted butter and they just soak that butter up!

*note I doubled the recipe so I used a 9X13 pan, if you are making  a regular batch use a 9 inch square pan.  It's important so the butter gets in each biscuit!!!

Just out of the oven.... the first two batches I made had more of a smooth top but oh well they tasted the same!

See the bottoms they are soaked in butter!

Who would have thought by just adding sour cream and then 7-up that you could make a lovely biscuit like this!

 

2 cups Bisquick

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 cup 7-up

1/4 cup melted butter

Cut sour cream into biscuit mix, add 7-Up. Makes a very soft dough.

Sprinkle additional biscuit mix on board or table and pat dough out. Melt 1/4 cup butter in a 9 inch square pan.  Place cut biscuits in pan and bake at 450 degrees until golden brown about 12 to 15 minutes. Although sometimes I bake at 425 because 450 is high!