Two Great Ways to Enjoy the Holidays

With the holiday season approaching, many of you will have guests visiting to share a meal or to catch up over a weekend. What better time to serve a holiday tradition for dessert or a quick and tasty breakfast treat. Both are sure to garner compliments from your guests.

Reader Becky Clark sent us her recipe for pumpkin pie, which uses honey in place of sugar. Necessity is the mother of invention and Clark’s experiment paid off.

“When I first made this recipe, it called for two cups of sugar and I only had one,” she says. “I substituted the second cup of sugar with honey. Everyone loved it.”

Our second recipe, interestingly enough, came to us from one of our advertisers, Rhodes Bakery and its Bake-N-Serv Kitchen. It is for a breakfast or brunch pastry called Lemon Pull-Aparts. It is very simple to make, yet we doubt you will have leftovers to enjoy later.

Becky's Pumpkin Pie

• 4 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3 cups pumpkin
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup honey
• 2 unbaked pie shells

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Mix ingredients in the order given. Pour into pie shells. Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees and bake 40 to 50 minutes, until pie is golden and well set.

Tips From Our Test Kitchen: For a more traditional, custard-style pie, add two more eggs. Serve with whipped cream.

Lemon Pull-Aparts

• 12 Rhodes™ Dinner Rolls, thawed but still cold
• 2 lemon rinds, grated
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup melted butter

Citrus glaze

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

Mix grated lemon rind with sugar. Cut rolls in half and place in a 12-inch deep dish pizza pan or 9-by-13-inch baking pan sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Drizzle 1/4 cup melted butter over rolls. Sprinkle with lemon rind/sugar mixture, reserving 1/2 of mixture to sprinkle on just before baking. Cover with sprayed plastic wrap.

Let rise until double in size. Remove wrap. Sprinkle on remaining mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes. Remove immediately from pan and place on cooling rack. Combine powdered sugar, butter and lemon juice. Mix well. Drizzle glaze over pull-aparts.

Mary Carter is American Profile’s contributing food editor.

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