Mini Apple Pies

9-12 apples, peeled and cored
Cinnamon
Sugar
Brown sugar
Rum
2 tubes Crescent rolls

Peel and core all the apples then cut into small pieces.  In a bowl mix cinnamon and sugar to taste, and add a small amount of brown sugar to make the mix sticky when it bakes.  Add in 6 cap fulls of rum and stir.  Let the apples marinate in the mix for 3 hours stirring once an hour.  Heat oven to 375 and open the crescent rolls.  Now there are two ways of dealing with this, either roll out the dough and using muffin cups make the dough into mini pie crusts or roll out the dough, fill it with the apple mix, close it off and make mini empanadas.  For the mini pies just fill the crust lined muffin cup with apple mix.  Bake for 20-35 minutes until crust is brown.

Peanut Butter Pie

I love this recipe because it takes absolutely NO cooking (except for the hot fudge) so it is a great recipe for a hot day!

1 chocolate cookie crust (store bought or homemade is good choose your poison)
1 Cup Peanut Butter (I used low sodium natural peanut butter)
1/2 Cup Sugar
8 Ounces Cream Cheese at room temperature (I used low fat low sodium Cream Cheese)
3 Cups Whipped Cream (if you can find the low fat use it)
1 Jar Hot Fudge (I like and use Dark Chocolate when I can Hershey's makes a great one)

In a medium bowl mix peanut butter, cream cheese and sugar.  Mixture whipped cream into peanut butter mix slowly.  The mixture will stiffen a little as the whipped cream is added and become almost a pudding like consistency (a little tougher than that).  Spoon mixture into the pie crust and heat up fudge.  Spread fudge over the top of the pie to the edges of the pie.  Place pie in the refridgerator for at least 2 hours and then enjoy.

Warning: This pie is very rich and should only be enjoyed in small slices.  If you eat a slice that is too large you may experience peanut butter overload, chocolate overdose, and you may never be able to eat another pie again.  No seriously it really is a very rich pie.

Chocolate Cheese Pie

Pastry:
1 package of Shortbread girl scout cookies (not the whole box just one package)
4 tbs fake butter

Filling:
2 250g packages of cream cheese
3 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 oz dark chocolate, melted

Smash up cookies really well into fine crumbs.  Melt butter add cookies and mix well.  Place on the bottom of a pie pan and flatten with the back of a spoon until all the cookie mix is flat to create the crust.  Cook in the oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes.

Press cream cheese until easily mixed in a large bowl.  Add eggs and sugar until light yellow in color.  Mix in the vanilla and the melted chocolate.  Pour into pie shell and bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes depending on your oven.  Once the pie is finished you can sprinkle chocolate sprinkles on it or melt more chocolate to create a shell on the top.

Mine doesn't look very chocolatey because I didn't fully melt the chocolate.  I left it a little chunky, it was still pretty yummy.