Peanut Butter & Huckleberry Pie

October 17, 2015

Michael as well as I unintentionally went over-the-top on peanuts inwards our contributions to birthday picnic, doubling downward on roasted peanuts as well as peanut butter inwards both dishes. While Michael's dressed a kale as well as quinoa salad, mine formed the base of operations season for a sweetness piffling pie.

My starting fourth dimension contact amongst this pie was every bit a recipe tester for Leigh Drew's Wrapped inwards Pastry. The peanut butter caramel filling was ever destined to win me over, but it was the fresh huckleberry topping that proved to live the clincher. Instead of the depth as well as richness of a to a greater extent than predictable chocolate/peanut butter pairing, blueberries actually lighten upward the caramel as well as lend a hint of tartness. It makes for a actually dainty springtime dessert.

The shortcrust pastry was non my best effort. I mean value I added also piffling liquid, rendering it crumbly as well as hard to ringlet (yet thence really slow to swear at). By contrast, the peanut butter caramel was uncomplicated as well as completed inwards perchance v minutes. I enjoyed taking a piffling longer over the topping, alternating decorative circles of blueberries as well as roasted peanuts to pretty, homely effect.

This isn't the sort of recipe that volition ever come inwards our weekly rotation but I tin dismiss run across myself enjoying it all the to a greater extent than for pulling it out i time a year, when blueberries are cheap-ish as well as in that place are friends to feed.

Peanut butter & huckleberry pie
(a recipe from Leigh Drew's Wrapped inwards Pastry,
made available online through her blog)

pastry
2 cups patently flour
1/4 loving cup icing sugar
1/2 loving cup margarine
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 loving cup almond milk

caramel filling
1 1/2 cups shine peanut butter
1 loving cup almond milk
1 loving cup icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

topping
1 loving cup fresh blueberries
2/3 loving cup salted roasted peanuts

To brand the pastry, identify the flour as well as icing saccharide inwards a nutrient processor as well as pulse them briefly to combine. Add the margarine as well as blend until it's thoroughly mixed through the flour. With the blades withal rotating, pour inwards the lemon juice. Drip inwards the almond milk a tablespoon at a fourth dimension as well as operate on blending until the ingredients are good mixed; they powerfulness fifty-fifty line together into a dough ball. Turn the dough onto a sail of plastic wrap, force it together into a dough ball amongst your hands, roll it upward inwards the plastic as well as refrigerate the dough for 2 hours.

Preheat an oven to 180°C as well as lightly spray a pie dish amongst oil. Retrieve the dough ball from the fridge, as well as disclose it, leaving the spread out glad roll betwixt the ball as well as the bench. Arrange some other slice of plastic roll on pinnacle of the dough, as well as ringlet the ball out betwixt the ii plastic sheets to check the pie dish. When it looks similar a practiced fit, take the plastic on pinnacle as well as repose the pastry into the dish opened upward side down. Pull off the 2d layer of plastic as well as check the pastry into the dish, trimming as well as patching where needed. Poke some holes inwards the base of operations amongst a fork as well as bake the pastry until it's lightly browned, close xx minutes. Allow the pastry to cool on the bench.

To brand the filling, identify the peanut butter as well as almond milk inwards a saucepan over medium heat. Stir them regularly until they're well-mixed as well as smooth, thence accept them off the heat. Sift inwards the icing saccharide as well as add together the vanilla, whisking everything together until it's really smooth. Pour the caramel into the pastry illustration as well as shine over the pinnacle to fifty-fifty it out. Decorate the pinnacle of the pie amongst alternating concentric circles of blueberries as well as peanuts. Refrigerate the pie for some 2 hours earlier slicing as well as serving.