A morning of pumpkin picking and craving autumn desserts
led us to seek out some ingredients. Roasting a pumpkin
was out of the question because we needed them to carve
so instead we used sweet potatoes. Here’s how the evening
went.

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Sweet Potato Pie with a Vodka Crust. I cut the water in
half and use Vodka so as to create less gluten and make
for a tender and flaky crust. A cook’s illustrated trick
that has really helped my pate brisse technique evolve.

From a weekday of autumn baking

Next I made some sweet potato pie souffles! I had left over
filling and used basic souffle technique to make them. They
came out ridiculous. So tender and flavorful from the spices.
Melted Cherimoya ice cream to sauce. They sank on me
before I could get the camera because I kept opening the
oven to check the other stuff.

From a weekday of autumn baking

The last was an Apple Galette. I bought some apples at a
local nursery that were out of this world. These Adanac
apples were tender but help up pretty well to the baking.
They have a strong cider like smell that really makes then
perfect of a galette.