We first had buttermilk pie in San Antonio, Texas. Larry and I aren’t even close to being Southern, but we both have an affinity for the food – especially the desserts.
Buttermilk pie is a custard pie (my favorite kind of pie). It’s similar to chess pie, but it doesn’t include cornmeal – and chess pie doesn’t have buttermilk. This version includes some maple syrup, which makes it extra special.
The Baked crust is one of my favorite pie crust recipes ever. It’s so easy to make – just a few quick pulses in the food processor and it’s done. It’s flaky and really, really buttery. In fact, with the butter in this pie filling, I had butter spilling over the sides of my pie plate as it baked. I don’t think that’s a bad thing. We love this pie. It’s wonderful at room temperature and slices transport easily, so it makes a great picnic treat.
To get the recipe and see the other entries from this week’s Baked Sunday Mornings head on over to Baked Sunday Mornings.
- Buttermilk Pie with a Hint of Maple Syrup (Baked Explorations, p. 59)
Looks delicious! I didn’t achieve that crusty top on my pie as much as everyone else did – my butter didn’t quite behave (see my blog – it was rolling out of my pie plate too!). I was surprised how yummy this was!
Love your pie dish! You’re right about the transport, too… Can’t sully this one up with a little ride across town! :)
Love your pie dish as well – super cute. Pie looks great!
Beautiful! I love your pie dish too.
I compared this one to chess pie as well. As that is my favorite pie ever, I loved this recipe!
Your pie looks beautiful, and I love your lovely pie dish!
Your pie looks great. I forgot about the stream of butter until you mentioned it, but luckily I put my pie on a cookie sheet. We also loved the maple syrup addition.
Looks heavenly!
Looks great. And your pie dish is beautiful. I will definitely have to practice my dough making, as mine was kind of tough. I’m guessing I over processed it.
Butter spilling over! Could that be why my oven smoked?? I tell you it was a mystery how a clean oven could produce smoke from what was like grease on the bottom. Perhaps that was it!
It didn’t change the simple taste!!
Your pie looks perfect! I love the pie dish. I thought my dough was a little tough, but I am used to making it by hand, so I may have overworked it. I should give it another try the next time the group makes a pie.
Hi Sheri! I too LOVE your pie dish– I’ve been trying to find an excuse to buy that same “deep ruffled” dish… it’s happen one of these days. ;-) I’m so glad multiple people had success with this pie dough and filling– I loved it too! Nice work. Also, I looked at your homemade Oreos recipe, because Oreos are pretty much my favorite thing ever. I love that you used the lesser-known black cocoa– that stuff is amazing! I don’t think a recipe can truly taste like Oreos without using it. Again, great work– I’ll have to give your adaptation a whirl sometime. I recently got the Flour book too but I haven’t baked out of it just yet…