Random Thoughts From Marybeth

Happy Birthday, Emma!

Today is my daughter's 9th birthday. When she gets home this afternoon we're going to make a Fudge Pie. She asked for that instead of a birthday cake and she also asked to help make it. It's a good thing that the pie only takes about 40 minutes to bake, I think we'll have just enough time to make it between the end of her Brownie troop meeting and the time she needs to leave for her gymnastics class.

Fudge Pie

3 large eggs
1 1/2 c. sugar
1/3 c. flour
1/3 c. cocoa
1/2 c. butter, melted
1/2 tsp. vanilla
3/4 c. pecans
1 unbaked 9" pie shell

Whisk ingredients together the first 6 ingredients. Stir in pecans. Pour into pastry shell. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes or until pie is set, shielding edges with strips of aluminum foil to prevent excessive browning, if necessary.

This is good served with vanilla ice cream.

My oldest son, Trevor, had his 16th birthday. At Emma's suggestion we made him a cheese cake. No, not that kind of cheesecake...this was a block of cheese with some canned cheese spread on top. (If Trevor could create his own personal food pyramid it would look like a wedge of cheddar.)