Jefferson Davis Pie

For some odd reason, Jefferson Davis pie is my husband's favorite. A long time ago, when we were still dating, I asked him what his favorite kind of cake was. He thought for a long time and then smiled and said, "I think it's called Jefferson Davis pie!" I had never heard of it before and really thought he was just making it up because who names a pie Jefferson Davis?! Weird. I researched it and...it should have been named SUGAR pie! Haha! No wonder he likes it so much. I decided to surprise him with it when he got home from work today. Needless to say, I have a happy husband in my midst.

First, I mixed together the dry ingredients: 1 3/4 cups sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice and a pinch of ground nutmeg.

Next, I mixed into the dry mixture the stick of softened butter and 4 eggs. Lastly, I mixed in the cup of milk and tablespoon of vanilla extract before pouring the mixture into a 9in pie shell.

Bake at 400*F for 10-15 minutes to set and then turn oven down to 350*F to cook for 30-40 minutes.

Drew seemed pretty happy with the results!

So...I was on a baking kick...and made ANOTHER dessert! I made the classic Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe but spread it on a greased baking sheet to make a cookie cake/cookie bars instead of the normal cookies. YUM!

What I haven't told you yet is that all of these pictures are taken by ME! I read some photography tutorials by the Pioneer Woman this morning and asked Drew lots of questions and decided to give his manual fancy camera a try. All of these are taken without ANY automatic features! I learned how to adjust the apperature and shutter speed!! So fun! Included below are a few more pictures that I used to practice my skillz.

This is an AWESOME new "skin" I got in the mail today for my laptop! Does it look familiar? I made it look like my blog!! Haha! I'm a loser.

Flowers from Drew! He came home last week with them for me and a cute little glass (I'm collecting random drinking glasses so that each one in my cabinet is unique!). Isn't he sweet??Here's one of those glasses that I got recently at Home Goods! I am even drinking more water during the day because it is so cute!!

I think I am going to keep working on this photography thing. I smell a new hobby!!