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Key Lime Pie with Lemon Oreo Crust

Key Lime Pie with Lemon Oreo Crust (with Video)

Key Lime Pie is a southern classic that is as delicious as it is easy to make. Absent the crust, Key Lime Pie boasts only three ingredients – Key lime juice, sweetened condensed milk and egg yolks. Traditionally, the crust of choice is graham cracker crust. However, the store-bought graham cracker crust that I intended…

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Pate Sucree

Pâte Sucrée

Pâte Sucrée or French Sweet Pastry dough is a key ingredient in classic French dessert tarts. It is a sweet, crumbly French pastry that is easy to make and is often filled with pastry cream and topped with fruit. Pâte Sucrée is similar to Pâte Brisée, but includes egg yolks and sugar. I used the…

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Julia Child's Tarte Normande aux Pommes

Tarte Normande aux Pommes (Julia Child’s Custard Apple Tart)

Julia Child’s Tarte Normande aux Pommes, a.k.a. Custard Apple Tart from Mastering the Art of French Cooking is amazing. Unlike many desserts, this tart is not overly sweet. It is, however, quite delicious and has the perfect blend of apples and custard.

Mexican Key Lime Tartlets

Mexican Key Lime Tartlets with Cream Cheese Pastry

Mexican Key Lime Tartlets with Cream Cheese Pastry are a perfect end to your Cinco de Mayo feast. Their awesome blend of tart and sweet will have you clamoring for more of these delectable bite-sized morsels. What’s even better is that the shells and the key lime mixture can be made ahead of time, and assembled right…

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Lemon Curd Tartlets

Lemon Curd Tartlets

Lemon curd is like liquid gold! This lemon curd is smooth and silky with a tangy and tart flavor that overwhelms your senses. When piped into a mini pastry shell and topped with whipped cream, it produces an extraordinary treat.

French Lemon Cream Tart

French Lemon Cream Tart

French Lemon Cream Tart is the perfect combination of sweet and tart. The amazing velvety smooth dessert is perfect for Easter, or anytime.

Perfectly delicious for your Thanksgiving feast.

Susan’s Perfect Pecan Pie

At Thanksgiving, friends and family members fight over getting a piece of Susan’s Perfect Pecan Pie. It’s dubbed perfect for two reasons: (1) It’s perfectly delicious; and (2) it took almost 10 years to perfect. After a lot of arm twisting, Susan relented and agreed to share her Perfect Pecan Pie recipe, and the story…

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Buttery, flaky pie crust - perfectly delicious!

Foolproof Pâte Brisée Tart Crust

Foolproof Pâte Brisée Tart Crust – that’s an oxymoron, isn’t it? Well, I would have considered it an oxymoron before today. I’ve been making pies, tarts and quiches for more years than I care to remember. From an early age, I never remember homemade crust to be a problem. Then along came Alton Brown who…

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Brie en Croûte

For some time, I’ve wanted to try making Brie en Croûte which is basically a wheel of Brie with some sort of topping encased in puff pastry.  It can be made with either a sweet or a savory topping.  In honor of Thanksgiving, I decided to go with a sweet topping.

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I'm Chula King, the food blogger, award-winning photographer, and videographer behind Pudge Factor. Pudge Factor features amazing and well-tested recipes from my every day cooking. These recipes run the gamut from simple to sophisticated and everything in between. I not only present awesome recipes with tips and tricks that I've learned through the years, but also process photos from start to finish. For some of the recipes, I include videos detailing the actual making of the dish. Read More…

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