Tartine's Pecan Maple Pie

What better way to start spend New Years Eve afternoon but to go to Tartine? Great company, good coffee and tea, amazing Pecan Pie and Bread pudding. Just looked up the recipe and thought I would share. OR if you live in SF...GO!

Pecan Maple Pie from Tartine

(Makes 1 full pie)

1/4 cup sugar

3 tablespoons maple syrup

3 tablespoons light corn syrup

2 teaspoons bourbon

pinch salt

1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon unsalted butter

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 large egg, lightly beaten

2/3 cup pecan halves

zest of 1/3 an orange or 28g/1oz kumquats, thinly sliced

Flaky Tart Dough:

pinch of salt

3 1/2 tablespoons very cold water

1 cup + 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour

7 tablespoons cold unsalted butter

If you make it before me, follow the directions for the recipe from this site. The directions seems a little long so I want to see if I can simplify it.

mmmm... Happy New Year!

Brown Butter Blueberry Cream muffins...mmm

I absolutely love these muffins. You might gain a pound, but it's Christmas! To bad i'll be making these in the summer too though. They're definitely the best blueberry muffins I've ever made. And the first I've converted from European measurements. The original recipe had no sour cream but it really adds to them. 'm taking them to my family in San Diego! If they survive the car ride.

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• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cups white sugar
• 1/2 cup browned butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cups lite sour cream
• 1 cups blueberries

Preheat the oven to 375F. Put muffin liners in a muffin tin. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan. Keep heating it over medium heat until it's foamed and brown bits have appeared and it smells nutty and AMAZINGLY delicous. Make sure you keep an eye on it because it can burn quickly. Take off the heat and leave to cool a little. I always leave the little brown bits, as I think they have a lot of flavor.

Mix the eggs sugar, and vanilla together, then add the brown butter and mix again. In a separate bowl, combine together flour, salt and baking soda. Stir dry ingredients into egg mixture alternately with sour cream. GENTLY fold in the blueberries. Spoon batter into the muffin cups.

For the crumble topping:

2 tbsp cold butter

1/2 cup flour

1/3 cup sugar

Measure out all the ingredients into a small bowl. Rub together with your hands until you have a crumbly mixture. Divide between the muffins.

Bake for around 17-20 minutes, until they are lightly browned. Cool before eating!!

The secret is definitely the sour cream. Makes them extra moist even two days later.A-MAZING.All the directions are worth following.

Tobi and I are in SD celebrating with my family this year. Crazy to think last year we were in snowy Germany just dating. Now we're married and I'm showing him around sunny SD. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

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