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Our Favorite Chocolate Pie

The pie pictured was made by Yusuf.

Favorite Chocolate Pie Recipe

This recipe seems to be no-fail. We've been using it for a very long time and it always turns out perfect, rich and chocolaty good.

Ingredients

• 2- 9" baked pie shell
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/2 cups milk
• 4 egg yolks
• 3 1 oz. squares unsweetened chocolate
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tea vanilla

DIrections

• In medium saucepan combine sugar, flour, cornstarch, and salt.
• In a bowl beat milk, egg yolks until smooth. Gradually stir into sugar mixture.
• Stir constantly over medium heat until mixture comes to a full boil, boil one minute.
• Remove from heat, add chocolate, butter and vanilla; stir thoroughly.
• Pour into baked pie shells.
• Cover pies with plastic wrap to prevent film forming. Refrigerate for 3 hours.
• Top with fresh whip cream.

This can be also be served as a pudding.

Habeeba's Sweet Crepes

Sweet Crepes

Habeeba makes these daily for Iftar. Once cooked they are rolled and transferred to a platter.  The crepes can be dipped in soup, served with cream fresh or eaten plain.

This recipe is enough for 10 people, if your making for a smaller number just cut the recipe accordingly.

Ingredients

• 5 cups milk
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 1/8th cups flour
• 3 tablespoons melted butter
• pinch of salt

Directions

• Mix all of the ingredients in the blender
• In a hot pan add a pad of butter
• Ladle batter into the pan, use the bottom of the ladle to spread out
• Cook about 30 seconds on each side, the top will appear dry
• Cook a few seconds on the other side or until done
• Roll up and eat

Festive Cupcakes

Sugar Star Cookies

These cookies can be varied by either dusting with granulated sugar, colored sugars or icing.

Sugar Stars

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 T cream
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. soda

Directions

• Mix butter, sugar, and eggs.
• Stir in cream and vanilla.
• In a separate bowl stir dry ingredients together.
• Chill dough.
• Heat oven to 400 degrees.
• Roll a portion of the dough onto a floured surface.
• Cut out cookies with cookies cutters or the top of a drinking glass.
• Place on ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake 6-8 minutes,or until delicately browned.

With the icing they look similar to the Sour Cream Cookies I posted last Ramadan but these cookies are denser and not as light.

Chocolate Crinkles

These chocolaty treats are well loved in our home. The secret to their flavor is real cocoa.

Chocolate Crinkles 

Ingredients

12 T cocoa
4 T oil
Mix the cocoa and oil together until they form a ball.

1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2  teaspoon salt
1 cup powdered sugar

Directions
Mix oil, chocolate , and sugar.
Blend in eggs.
Add vanilla.

Add dry ingredients in a separate bowl and mix.
Add the dry mixture to the oil mix.
Chill several hours or overnight.

Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Drop by spoonfuls onto powdered sugar, roll to cover with sugar.
Shape into balls.
Place 2" apart onto greased cookie sheet.
Bake 10-12 minutes or until almost no imprint remains when touched in the center.

Sour Cream Cookies

My Favorite Eid Cookies

These light and delicate cookies are my childhood favorites. They have become my family and friends favorites as well.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 2/3 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup sour cream

Directions

• Heat oven to 425 degrees
• Mix shortening, sugar, egg, and vanilla throughly.
• Blend dry ingredients; add to sugar mixture alternately with sour cream.
• Divide dough; roll out to 1/4" thick on well-floured surface.
• Cut with cookie cutter; place on greased baking sheet.
• Bake 8-10 minutes or until slightly browned.
• Once cooled frost with butter cream icing.

Turban Cookies

When my son Ahmad was small he named these Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies "Turban Cookies". These are definitely one of our Eid favorites.

Ingredients

• 1 bag Hershey's Kisses
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup peanut butter
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 T milk
• 1 tea vanilla
• 1 1/2 flour
• 1 tea baking soda
• 1/2 tea salt

Directions

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees
• Remove wrappers from kisses.
• Combine butter and peanut butter in a large bowl until well blended.
• Add 1/3 cup granulated sugar and brown sugar; beat until fluffy.
• Mix in egg, milk, vanilla.
• Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt; gradually beat into sugar mixture.
• Shape dough into 1 inch balls.
• Roll in granulated sugar; place on lightly greased cookie sheet.
• Bake 6-8 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Press a chocolate kiss into the center of each cookie; cookie will crack around the edges.
• Bake for 3-5 more minutes.
• Cool completely so that chocolate will harden.

Cupcakes & Candy

Bread Rings

Ingredients

• 3 eggs, beaten
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1/2 tea baking soda
• 1/4 tea salt
• 1 3/4 to 2 cups flour
• vegetable oil
• powdered sugar

Directions

• Mix eggs, 2 T vegetable oil, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
• Gradually stir in enough flour to make a very stiff dough.
• Knead 5 minutes.
• Pour at least 1 inch of oil in a pan and heat to 375 degrees.
• Roll half of the dough at a time as thin as possible on a well-floured surface, turning often to prevent sticking.
• Dough will bounce back, continue rolling until it stays stretched out.
• Cut dough into circles or squares and fold in fourths.
• Use scissors to cut the outer edges and the center like a snowflake.
• Fry open dough pieces for about 30 seconds or until lightly browned.
• Turn quickly and brown the other side.
• Drain on paper towels.
• Sprinkle with powdered sugar, cinnamon and sugar or honey butter.