Sunday, May 3, 2009

Kneaders Cream Cheese Lemon Truffle Pie


If you ever get to take a trip to Utah, put Kneaders on your must stop list. It is a cute little place with amazing bread, pastries, breakfasts, and sandwiches. I found this recipe of one of their pies a few years ago and make it every Easter and usually once or twice more throughout the year. It is rich and creamy and lemony and absolutely to die for!


Kneaders' Cream Cheese Lemon Truffle Pie


Baked 9” pie shell
½ cup water
3 Tablespoons sugar
1 egg
1 Tablespoon cornstarch
Zest of ½ lemon
1 ½ Tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoons butter
1 cup vanilla chocolate chips or coins
1 (8 oz) package cream cheese
1 cup whipped cream sweetened with powdered sugar
1 Tablespoon toasted almonds

Toast almonds on a parchment covered cookie sheet at 350 degrees until golden brown. Set aside to cool.
Put water, sugar, lemon zest in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
In a large mixing bowl, mix egg and corn starch.
Slowly add hot water to egg mixture in the bowl, and then pour entire mixture back into the pan. Stirring continually, heat until thickened.
Remove from the heat. Add lemon juice and butter. Stir until mixture has cooled to 100 degrees.

Pour ½ of the hot filling in a bowl. This will be used as the second layer of the pie. Add vanilla chips to the filling remaining in the pan. Stir until chips are melted. In a second bowl, place softened cream cheese. Add the hot vanilla chip mixture to the cream cheese and beat together. Spread this mixture in the bottom of the pie shell.
Spread the remaining lemon filling on top. Chill for two hours.

Top with sweetened whipped cream and garnish with toasted almonds. Makes 1 pie. Keep refrigerated until time to serve.


10 comments:

Snooky doodle said...

THIS LOOKS SO TEMPTING :) YUM YUM

J+S said...

This looks delicious, and I have a husband who LOVES pies. I'm sure he'll love it. Do you mind if I post this on my food blog and link back to you? If it's a problem, just let me know and I'll take it down.

Melanie said...

Wow, this looks fantastic. I absolutely love lemon desserts. I can't wait to try this!

Ingrid_3Bs said...

Yum, that looks so luscious! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
~ingrid

Ora said...

I'm a sucker for anything lemony or cheesecakey. Is that a word? Looks YUM!

PheMom said...

I haven't had this at Kneaders yet, but I love lemon.

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Eliana said...

This pie looks for luciously elegant. (And creamy)

Elyse said...

Wow! This pie sounds fabulously decadent and delicious! Looking at its wonderful creamy texture, I find myself craving this pie. Man oh man, I'm saving this recipe! Sorry that I've been an absent commenter; I just finished up my law school exams and am finally getting around to my google reader.

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