How to Build Great Websites Using Grandma's Apple PIE Recipe

Building a great coaching website is as easy as using Grandma’s Apple PIE Recipe. These three simple ingredients will have clients hungry for your services.

Been to Grandma's lately? Maybe for a holiday get-together or a family gathering?

Well, what happens after you've stuffed your face with turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing? Yep, the desserts come out. Lots of them. And the most mouth watering of all? Grandma's freshly baked apple pie. Mmm, Mmm good! You know what happens next: Your eyes widen with anticipation. Your mouth begins to water as you envision the yummy pie you're about to enjoy. You are sold! Gimme pie!

And that's exactly what should happen when people visit your website. They should salivate at the thought of what you're going to serve them - your coaching products and services.

Now let's take a deeper look at the recipe for Grandma's apple PIE. It has three ingredients: P for pretty; I for interesting; and E for easy.

P: It's pretty. The mere sight of that pie sends shivers up and down your spine. It's appetizing to look at; gorgeous to behold.

I: It's interesting. Not only does it look good, it smells good. It's warm and fresh. The heat and aroma emanating from the steaming pie warms your face, tickles your nose and tantalizes your taste buds. And when you bite into it, your mind and body go into pleasure shock. It's more than interesting; it's euphoric!

E: It's easy! Heck, Grandma went to all the trouble of making it; all you have to do is open wide and take a bite.

You are sold!

But most coaching websites aren't that delicious. They're ugly, boring and tough to use. So, how can you use Grandma's recipe to cook up a mouthwatering website that satisfies the taste buds of new clients? It's easy as PIE...

Ingredient 1 - P: Pretty
Your website needs to be Pretty - professional in appearance, and visually delightful. You want visitors to say, "Hey, nice site!" not, "Yuck, what a mess!" Your visitors will need to read your website in order to get excited about what you have to offer. The fonts, colors, backgrounds and images must all work together to make your website easy to read.

Ingredient 2 - I: Interesting
Your site's got to be Interesting - alluring, engaging and motivating.
The copy you write must be vibrant enough to interest and motivate your readers. It must also compel them to seek your coaching services, in order to get relief from their problems and maintain hope for a brighter, more successful future. Readers need belief in you as the coach who can help them. Interesting words can do that.

Ingredient 3 - E: Easy
Your site needs to be Easy - particularly, easy to navigate. It must be organized logically so that visitors can know what's there, where to go and how to get back. The website must guide them along naturally. From a functional standpoint, things must work smoothly and quickly. No clunky forms, slow pages or unintuitive links. If your site is not easy, then visitors won't use it and they won't be interested in what you have to offer. They'll leave the table before dessert is served.

So there you have it - Grandma's PIE recipe: Pretty, Interesting and Easy.

Imagine if your website tasted like Grandma's hot apple PIE. Your visitors would probably need to join Weight Watchers, but at least you'd know they'd be chomping on your content till their bellies were full! The biggest benefit? You would have more clients coming to you with a hunger for your services. What could taste better than that?

About the Author - Kenn Schroder helps coaches who are struggling to attract clients. He provides web design, web marketing and search engine optimization to help you build a client-attracting coaching website. Get your FREE report and FREE newsletter to help you build a practice full of clients. 

How to Make an Apple Pie Recipe Low Calorie and Low Fat

We all love a warm, home-made piece of pie. If you are like me, perhaps you love decadent desserts a little too much.

But you don’t have to cut pies out of your life, altogether. I have found that I can take some simple little steps with the recipe that makes a huge difference in the end. Often, the calories and fat grams are reduced just a fraction of the original recipe.

Let us learn some now. We will start using a traditional Apple Pie recipe. This recipe is fairly consistent with most that are available.

So let’s analyze!

First, let’s say that a serving is about a 1/8 of a pie. Perfect! That is all we really need of this sweet dessert.

Here are the original ingredients:

Crust:
2-1/4 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup shortening or butter
¼ to ½ cup of ice cold water

Filling:
8 cups thinly sliced, cored and peeled tart apples (about 5-6 large apples)
1/2 cup sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
1 Tbsp. cornstarch
2 Tbsp. butter (melted)
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 Tbsp. lemon juice (optional)

This comes to 506 calories and 29 grams of fat per serving, if we use all of the ingredients as they are.

I know you might blink and think that those numbers are for the entire pie, but you would be sadly mistaken. Those large, scary amounts are for one slice of apple pie. At that rate, you can have this pie…for dinner. That is really disappointing. Let’s find a way to get this pie a little more reasonable.

1. Replace the butter or shortening with Smart Balance Light Buttery Spread (entire recipe). This will bring down the most of your fat content right here! There is butter in both the crust and filling, so this one step has major impact. You can use the butter substitute of your choice, but note the significant change.

Reduce 137 calories per serving and 15.6 fat grams per serving.

Replace sugar and brown sugar with Splenda No Calorie (entire recipe). This one is easily adjustable. You can also use the Splenda baking blend or just make your own blend of sugar. Try 3/4 Splenda and 1/4 sugar, and it will still give you the soft sugar flavor, without as many calories. You can still have the sweet- and keep your peace of mind.

Reduce 75 calories per serving.

Make only the top crust with original ingredients. I know- crust is fun. But instead of a pre-packaged dessert baked good, would you not rather have a delicious warm slice of apple pie - even if you only get half the crust. It would be the same amount of calories and you can think of it like a cobbler!

Reduce your recipe 191 calories per serving and 13 grams of fat per serving.

Make the top crust, replacing butter with Smart Balance Buttery Spread and sugar with Splenda no calories. Oh, we are on a roll now! This step is a huge impact on the final numbers.

Reduce 265 calories per serving and 20.8 g of fat per serving

If you combine all of the tips together (half crust on top, smart balance butter and No Calorie Splenda throughout) you will have a pie piece that is only 161 calories and 6.6 grams of fat per serving. The original pie 506 calories and 29 grams of fat per serving! So, get baking!

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How to Make a Good Cheese or Apple Pie

A delicious recipe for cheese or apple pie.

One of may favourite deserts is the cheese pie, although sometimes I go for apple pie as well. I know this recipe from my mother and it is very easy to be done. It is also very easy to remember, as the ingredients are in a proportion of 1 to 1. The same dough can be used for apple or cheese pie.

Ingredients: (for a big griddle)

The dough:

- 4 eggs

- 14 spoons with sugar

- 14 spoons with cooking oil

- 14 spoons with milk

- 1 teaspoon ammonia

- lemon juice

- flour

Filling:

- 500gr cottage cheese / 500gr apples

- raisins / for the apple pie do not use raisins, but cinnamon

- sugar / sugar

- 1 egg / no egg for apple pie

How to make it:

Break the eggs into a pan. Add sugar gradually and stir. Add milk and stir until sugar melts. Add the cooking oil and stir again. Put the ammonia in a cup and add lemon juice, then add it into the composition. Stir. Add flour until the dough is not too strong, but not too soft either. It needs to be something like lava, meaning that it needs to flow slowly when you incline the pan. Put half or a little bit more of the dough into a griddle. (The griddle was previously buttered and floured or covered in baking paper). Put it in the oven, slow to medium temperature. When the dough is half baked, so not very soft, take the griddle out.

When the dough is in the oven, prepare the filling: Mix the cheese with one or two spoons with sugar, add raisins, an egg and some vanilla essence. Now, the griddle being out, put the filling and add the other half of the dough. Put it back in the oven until it becomes golden on the outside.

The same goes for the apple pie, but make sure the apples are not hot when you fill the pie. To prepare the apple filling, peel the apples, then grate them. Put them into a pan, on the cooker, add sugar and cinnamon and let them boil. When they are ready, cool them a little and only after that fill the pie with it.

Leave the pie to cool down and when it is not hot any more, cut it and eat it. You can also put powder sugar before you serve it.

Classic Apple Pie Recipe

An all time favorite, this simple and tasty apple pie dessert takes only a dollop of vanilla ice cream to make it an out- of- this- world experience.

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Today, apple pie is assumed to be an American dish but, with due respect to finer emotions on its taste, the apple pie is a European dish. Traditionally, (way back in the fourteenth century), the British enjoyed meat pies and that was what encouraged their cooks to start substituting meat with apples to make a dessert. With political ups and downs during the reign of Cromwell, then King Charles II, the apple pie also saw waxing and waning fortunes. However, apple pie was a favorite dessert during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Other European countries also liked the dish, and there is literary evidence of Sweden baking apple pies in 1796, "Apple-pie was used all the year, the evening meal of children. House-pie, in country places is make of apples neither peeled nor freed from the cores, and its crust is not broken if a agon-wheel goes over it…."

Passing from the British kitchens to colonial hands, the apple-pie was originally baked with its crust off, to facilitate the adding of sugar and spices after the dish was baked. Sometimes the crust was even baked separately.

By the eighteenth century, the apple pie was a hot favorite in the United States, but disdain for its English parentage did not go away in a hurry. Mark Twain, the famous nineteenth century writer expressed his feelings for the apple pie of England in these words (in 1878) :

RECIPE FOR NEW ENGLISH PIE - To make this excellent breakfast dish, proceed as follows:

Take a sufficiency of water and a sufficiency of flour, and construct a bullet-proof dough. Work this into the form of a disk, with the edges turned up some three-fourths of an inch. Toughen and kiln-dry in a couple days in a mild but unvarying temperature. Construct a cover for this redoubt in the same way and of the same material. Fill with stewed dried apples; aggravate with cloves, lemon-peel, and slabs of citron; add two portions of New Orleans sugars, then solder on the lid and set in a safe place till it petrifies. Serve cold at breakfast and invite your enemy.

For us lesser mortals, the all time favorite Apple Pie can be made in a much more gourmet friendly manner, which may not give Mark Twain any reason to complain.
For this recipe you need:

1 kilogram cooking apples
¼ cup plain flour
½ cup ground sugar
1and ½ tsp lemon juice
½ tsp cinnamon powder (fresh or freshly ground)
½ tsp allspice powder
¼ tsp nutmeg powder
¼ tsp ginger powder (or crushed ginger)
4 tbsp diced butter (unsalted, softened)

(If you can get pastry strips ready to cook, it’s great, or else, make the pastry with the following ingredients:

2 cups plain flour
6 tbsp cold butter diced
4 tbsp cold lard diced
1 tsp salt.

To make pastry, sift salt and four together. Then add the butter and lard and rub into the flour to make coarse breadcrumbs. Stir in a little ice water to just bind the crumbs into dough. Divide the dough into two balls, warp in greaseproof paper and refrigerate for about half an hour. These will serve as the pastry shell and the crust respectively)

Roll out one dough into a round, 9 inches in diameter and then transfer this into a 23 cm (9 inch) pie tin. Trim or shape the edges as you desire and preheat this tin at about 220 degrees centigrade.

In the meantime peel, core and chop the apples, mix in all the spices, spoon into the pie shell, and drizzle butter on top. Roll out the second dough ball and cover the pie with this crust sheet, press onto the dish edges and crimp.

Decorations can be made with the flour figures (usually leaf shapes) and arranged onto the top dough sheet.

Bake for 10 minutes at 220 degrees C, then reduce heat to 180 degrees and bake for a further 45 minutes, till a healthy golden brown spreads on the crust.

The apple pie can be enjoyed A La Mode (with vanilla ice cream) or just as it is

Apple Crisp Recipe

Apple is one of the best and most popular dessert fruit. It lends well to almost any dessert made with it- baked, stewed or fried. Here one favorite, light, healthy…and apple-y.

A great cold weather desert, the apple crisp brings with it the memories of cold winter evenings by the hearth, fragrances of cinnamon mixed with smells of warm apples baking. This particular dish is also a great accompaniment for a large dollop of ice cream, if you are one of those people for whom ice cream is always the main course, whatever else the table may be laden with!!

Apple crisp is made with sliced fresh apples and cinnamon then topped with a crumbly mixture of flour, butter, and sugar. Apple Crumble, as Americans love to call it, can be made in a variety of ways, but the basic recipe is always the same… sweet, warm apple filling, topped with crunchy crumble, sometimes with nuts and flavoring, sometimes with plain breadcrumb consistency. Crisp is actually any dish with soft fruit below, topped with a crunchy crumbly topping, sometimes with nuts and dried fruits. Since they do not have a bottom layer (or else they would be a pie!) the top layer gives a great crispy, crunchy contrast to the tart, soft fruit underneath. Crisps can be made with any firm, sweet fruit, peaches, pears, apricots - but we have some interesting versions of apple crisps here.

Apple Crisp Recipe:

To make this delicious and easy dessert, you need:
500 grams apples
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground cardamom
½ tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup water
1 cup granulated sugar
2 tbsp low fat spread
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
Grated rind of one lemon
Juice of one lemon

Peel, core and slice the apples. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees C. Grease a baking dish and keep aside.

Toss the apples into the orange juice and mix in the lemon rind. Place these in an arranged manner inside the baking dish.

Meanwhile, crumb together the flour, low fat spread and sugar, adding in the powdered cinnamon, cardamom and nutmeg. Using warm water, make a crumb like consistency of this mixture.

Spread over the apples in the baking dish, evenly. Bake till the top is evenly browned, and the apples inside will be tender too.

Serve with a large dollop of ice-cream or fresh cream.

Healthy Apple Crisp Recipe

This version is made using oats with flour which makes it easier to digest, tastier and crunchier.

You need:

½ cup flour
½ cup white sugar
½ cup fat free butter
1/3 cup oats
3 large apples, peeled, cored and sliced
½ cup brown sugar
½ tsp ground cinnamon
1 tbsp flour

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Spray a baking dish with oil, enough to bake, no more. Peel, core and slice the apples into thin crescents, keep aside.

Blend together the flour, butter, white sugar and oats till they resemble bread crumbs. This can also be done with bare hands, and the feel is much better that way. The topping is ready.

In a bowl mix together the brown sugar, cinnamon and three tablespoons of flour.

Combine with the apples so they do not break. Pour this mixture into the baking dish. Then spread the prepared topping evenly over the apples.

Bake this dish for about 45 minutes. The topping should be browned and crusty.

Serve with ice cream on the side. Or if it is a winter dessert menu, serve with fresh cream.

Easy Apple Pie Recipes

Food that makes you go "yum," that’s what apple pies are! So here are some easy apple pie recipes that you can make at home.

When I was younger, most of the time I found my mother in front of the oven with gloves churning out recipes that emanated a lovely aroma. So much so that she always came up with recipes for everything; even the banana that had ripened was turned into banana fritters! This habit has rubbed off on me, (to a certain extent) so most of the time I love donning my apron and experimenting with recipes. With the thought of food and thanksgiving around the corner, I thought I might as well share some scrumptious easy apple pie recipes with you. Here they are…

Apple Pie

Required Ingredients

• 1 piecrust
• 1 c. of sugar
• ½ a teaspoon of cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon of salt
• 2 tablespoons of flour
• 6 c. pared and sliced apples
• 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
• 2 tablespoon of butter

Instructions

• To start, combine cinnamon, sugar, salt and flour in a mixing bowl.
• Then arrange the apples in layers in the 9-inch pastry lined pan.
• Now sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture over each layer, along with lemon juice and dotted with butter.
• Once that is done, put the top crust over filling and press together the edges around the pie.
• Cut slits in it in order to allow steam to escape.
• Bake this at 375 degrees for about 40 to 50 minutes.

Caramel Apple Pie

Required Ingredients

• About 10 caramel candies
• 1/3 c. of flour
• 3 c. Rome/Jonathan apples (chopped)
• 2/3 c. caramel ice cream topping
• 2 teaspoons of lemon juice
• ½ c. of pecan pieces
• A 9-inch frozen piecrust

Instructions

• First combine all the caramel candies (each cut into 4 pieces), the flour, the apples, the caramel topping and the lemon juice and mix well.
• Now pour this mixture into the frozen piecrust and sprinkle with the pecan pieces.
• Bake this at 375 degrees on a preheated baking sheet for about 40 to 45 minutes.
• Remember not to put the pie in the refrigerator.

Old Fashioned Apple Pie

Required Ingredients

• 2 9-inches piecrusts (one for the top and one for the bottom)
• ¼ cup of all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup of sugar
• ½ a teaspoon of cinnamon (ground)
• ½ a teaspoon of nutmeg (ground)
• A dash of salt
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• 6 cups apples (thinly sliced and cored)

Instructions

• Mix the cinnamon, sugar, nutmeg, flour and salt.
• Then stir in the apples and place into the pie crust and dot with some butter.
• Once that is done, cover the top crust and slit evenly in order to let steam escape.
• Now pinch the sides together and seal the top crust to the bottom.
• Use a three-inch strip of aluminum foil to cover the edge of the crust.
• Back in an oven that has been preheated to 425°F for 40 to 50 minutes.

Apple and Maple Pie

Required Ingredients

• 1 Piecrust
• 4 apples (peeled and sliced)
• 1 c. pure maple syrup
• 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon of margarine

Instructions

• First place the apples in the piecrust.
• Then blend the maple syrup along with the cornstarch in a blender.
• Now put the mixture into a saucepan with the margarine and cook this over a moderate heat. (Stir this until the mixture becomes thick).
• Once that is done, pour the maple syrup mixture over the apples.
• With that over, bake in an oven that has been preheated to 350 °F for about 45 minutes.

Apple Pie Recipe

What would it take to make the best ever apple pie recipe? Now that’s actually very easy. It would take all the right ingredients to bring back all those fond memories and maybe even create new ones. Everyone knows what their best ever apple pie tastes like, but when it comes to recreating the same pie, most people fall short of capturing the essence of the apple pie.

Though it may seem like an easy treat to cook up, it is indeed very hard to start from scratch if you are looking to recreate your Mom’s apple pie, the one that you loved so much as a kid. Fortunately for us, if you are looking for the recipe of a wonderful homemade apple pie, then you’ll find loads of these free recipes over the Internet that will also show you how to make your apple pie from scratch, including the crust.

You’ll find absolutely everything, right from award winning recipes for homemade apple pies to those standard yet deliciously rich classic ones. You can even make Marlboro apple pies, dried apple pies, vegan apple pies, glazed apple pies, caramel apple pies, Dutch apple pies, Texan apple pies, fried apple pies, Cranberry apple pies, apple crumble pies, mock apple pies and even apple pumpkin pies!

Or perhaps, all you need to learn is simply how to make the right apple pie filling to put in a readymade piecrust. There is no problem in that too. There are loads of apple pie recipes that don’t take up much time for preparation. The best part I, when you serve your own hot version of the homemade apple pie, you’ll definitely be creating some very fond memories for yourself as well as your loved ones.

The Best Apple Pie Recipe ever!
Ingredients for the flaky crust:

• 2 ¼ cups of Five Roses cake and Pastry flour.
• 1 tsp of sugar.
• ¾ tsp of salt.
• ¼ cup of cold butter.
• ½ a cup of shortening.
• 1 large egg.
• Ice cold water.

Ingredients for the Filling:

• 500 grams of red plums, sliced and stoned.
• 3 large apples, peeled and chopped.
• 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
• ¾ cups of granulated sugar.
• 3 tbsp of Five Roses all-purpose flour.
• ¾ tsp of cinnamon.
• 1 egg yolk.
• 1 tsp of milk.
• Some granulated sugar.

Procedure:

For the crust: In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt and sugar. Using a pastry blender cut the cold butter and then cut the shortening till it is the size of tiny peas. In a small measuring jar, beat the eggs and then stir in some of the ice-cold water; it should equal ½ a cup. Next, stir in the egg mixture, a tablespoon at a time and pour it into the flour mixture until the pastry becomes moist and holds it together in a ball. Press the dough together and then flatten it into two 5-inch rounds. Wrap this with some plastic wrap and then leave it for 30 minutes for chilling.

For the Filling: In a large bowl, toss some of the fruit along with the lemon juice. In a smaller bowl, stir the flour, sugar and cinnamon and stir it well into the fruit. Roll out the pastry on a floured surface to about 1/8 of an inch thickness, to fit into a pie plate. Trim the edges of the pastry and then brush with water. Roll out the pastry for the top crust, cutting the steam vents. Spread the apple and plum mixture into the bottom of the crust. Finish the crust edge, as you desire. In a small mixing bowl, mix the milk and egg yolk and brush a little over the crust and sprinkle a little sugar on top. Bake at about 425 degrees F for ten minutes and then reduce to about 350 degrees F and keep baking for half an hour.

Apple Pie with Cheddar Cheese Crust Recipe
Apples go well with cheddar cheese and in this recipe the cheese is built right into the crust. For a good variation, make use of your favorite apple pie crust and top it with apple crisp topping.

Ingredients for the Cheddar Crust:

• 2 ¼ cups of all-purpose flour.
• ¾ tsp of salt.
• ½ a cup of vegetable shortening.
• ¼ cup of cold butter.
• 1-¾ cups of cheddar cheese.
• 6 tbsp of ice cold water.

Ingredients for the Filling:

• 6 cups of Ontario apples.
• 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
• 1/3 cup of granulated sugar.
• 1 tbsp of all-purpose flour.
• ½ a tsp of cinnamon.
• 1 egg yolk.
• 1 tsp milk.

Procedure:

In a large mixing bowl, mix the salt and flour. With the pastry blender, cut the butter and shortening until the mixture starts to resemble fine crumbs. Now, stir the cheese in and also stir some water in, a little at a time so that the dough holds together. Flatten it into 2 round disks and wrap with plastic and then chill for 30 minutes. In the meantime prepare the filling: in a bowl, toss the apples with the lemon juice. In a smaller bowl, mix the flour, sugar and cinnamon and then stir this into the apples.

On a floured surface, roll out the pastry for the bottom crust and place it in a 9-inch thick pie plate. Trim the edges evenly. Now, roll out the pastry for the top crust while cutting the steam vents. Add the filling to the bottom crust and then place the top crust over the apple. Finish the edge as preferred. In a small mixing bowl, beat the egg yolks and milk together and brush the top of the pie with the mixture.

Bake at 425 degrees F for 15 minutes and then reduce the temp to 350 degrees F and bake for 40 minutes.