We are Pie people more than cake people. Don't get me wrong we do love homemade yellow cake with milk chocolate icing, but not birthday cake or wedding cake or red velvet cake. Especially not red velvet cake. Yuck! My grandmother's coconut cake was great and her butter cake was really really great but the gift belonging to those recipes seems to have vanished when she went to live with the angels who sprinkled her with angel dust in her last days. But pies and cobblers are where our hearts live and beat.
Thanksgiving is the perfect holiday for us...it features pie. It's when the rest of the world recognizes pie for it's greatness. I'm not sure what dessert goes with New Year's but Valentine's day is a definite cake day, chocolate with pink icing. Easter is coconut cake, oh yea, that's a good one, as I mentioned coconut cake is good. Coconut cake after it's been in the freezer for a month...that is the best! Such good memories for me. Independance day we love as cherry, blueberry and apple pie take center stage!My mama spices up other special summer days with her peach cobbler. I don't think Halloween gets its own dessert just candy. And Christmas is cake, fruit cake to be specific, ummmmm not too good. So July 4th and Thanksgiving us pie lovers live it up!
I used to be the pie maker and they were good, but I have passed the pie pans to my duaghter and she is awesome! Yesterday I mentioned that we don't really mess with Thanksgiving menus. We like the tradition and that applies to the desserts too,with one exception. In my years of being the pie maker we finished our feasts with Pumpkin and Pecan pies and an occasional Sweet Potato pie. But since my middle daughter has taken over the pie making she has added Coconut pie. Her Coconut pie is the best, bar none, in the world! It is so good that her sister, my youngest daughter, shunned a wedding cake for her October Wedding in favor of Coconut pie and Pumpkin pie made by middle daughter.
We may add a crustless pumpkin pie this year for certain health considerations but I will be looking forward to Coconut Pie. Rumor has it that the health conscious are considering just a sliver of middle daughter's Pumpkin and Coconut pies!
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