Jello Recipes
Peach Sour Cream Pie with Instant Vanilla Pudding
This delicious sour cream pie with instant vanilla pudding has a homemade cinnamon and pecan crust. If you usually use store-bought graham cracker crusts, why not have a go at making your own? This piecrust is made with graham cracker crumbs, cinnamon, and pecans. If you do not want to use nuts, simply omit them from the recipe and increase the amount of graham cracker crumbs to two cups. Homemade piecrusts are usually a bit softer than the readymade ones but fresher tasting and you can add any spices or flavorings you like. The cinnamon in this piecrust works nicely with the cinnamon-sprinkled peaches decorating the top.
Maybe you have had a fresh raspberry pie or a raspberry cream pie before. Berries are wonderful on pies too, especially fresh berries. If you are using jello instant pudding, you will find that making homemade pies is especially quick and easy. A lot of jello recipes take time to set but you can make jello instant pudding in a few minutes, which is why it is called instant pudding. The piecrust is quick and easy to make. If you make the instant pudding while the piecrust bakes, this whole recipe should not take more than thirty minutes to make. This includes the time for the piecrust to cool down.
Creamy pudding pies are delicious with crumb crusts and a layer of peaches, berries, or another fruit on top finishes these pies off perfectly. The sour cream in this peach pie recipe adds a delicious tang. If you are using pudding to make pies, it is sometimes a good idea to make it the day before, so it has plenty of time to set and chill properly. This is not necessary if you are using an instant pudding, like in this vanilla pie recipe.
Easy Vanilla and Peach Pie with Cinnamon
Ingredients -
1 ¾ cups graham cracker crumbs
⅓ cup sugar
½ cup melted butter
3 teaspoons cinnamon
¼ cup pecans, finely chopped
3 cups cold milk
2 packages (3 ½ oz each) vanilla instant pudding mix
1 big can peach slices, drained
½ cup sour cream
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Combine the graham cracker crumbs, sugar, butter, pecans and 1 teaspoon of the cinnamon.
Press this mixture up the sides and over the bottom of a 9-inch pie plate, and then bake it for 10 minutes.
Whisk together the vanilla instant pudding, sour cream and milk until it is creamy and thick.
Spoon this mixture into the cooled piecrust and chill the pie until it is firm.
Decorate the top with peach slices and sprinkle the remaining cinnamon over the peaches.
(Serves 8)
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This mouthwatering pie is easy to make, even though the crust is homemade too. If you are in a rush you could use a readymade graham cracker piecrust but making it yourself is very simple, since it is just a matter of combining the ingredients, pressing them into a pie plate, and baking the crust. The vanilla pudding layer is easy to make and the peaches are a wonderfully sweet and juicy topping. Make sure they are very well drained before using them, else they can make the vanilla pudding layer soggy.
Why Old Fashioned Peach Pie is a Comfort Food
Which foods would you choose if you could compile a list of your all-time comfort food favorites? Perhaps you enjoy tasty savory meals, like beef stew, chicken noodle soup or hamburgers. Sweet foods like homemade peach pie and chocolate cake are also comfort foods and a lot of people make recipes for old-fashioned peach pie and other favorites, which have been passed down the generations.
The Best Peach Pie
Peaches are juicy, sweet, and delicious. When you use them to make a pie you have a choice. Perhaps you want to make a sour cream pie with instant vanilla pudding or maybe a hot peach pie is what you had in mind. Serve peach pie alone or with ice cream or whipped cream.
Using vanilla instant pudding in a peach pie recipe gives the pie a wonderful taste. Vanilla and peaches are flavors, which go perfectly together, and the vanilla pudding adds a luxurious creaminess to the homemade peach pie. Some peach pie recipes call for a drop of vanilla extract instead of the pudding.
Which Peaches to Use
When you make old fashioned peach pie, you can either use fresh or canned peaches. If you are going to use fresh peaches, it is best to use completely ripe, soft ones. The recipe will probably call for them to be peeled too. Alternatively, you can use canned peaches, which you know are going to be soft and juicy.
A lot of canned peaches are in a thick sugar syrup so you will need to drain them well and maybe even rinse the peach pieces to get all the sugar syrup off before using them to top your homemade peach pie. The syrup makes the peaches too sweet and it might make the creamy vanilla pudding layer soggy.
Everyone Loves Peach Pie
It is easy to understand why old fashioned peach pie is such a comfort food. The soft, sweet peaches, the decadent cream layer and the tasty crust all melt in the mouth. A sour cream pie with instant vanilla pudding is a timeless treat, which is always a wonderful addition to any meal. If your grandmother or mother used to make delicious fruit pie recipes, why not make your own old-fashioned peach pie for your family?
