Pies!!!

Some of you were curious as to where the pie favors came from for Elizabeth's shower. I am very proud to say that Anna Kate, Claire, and I made them ourselves! We borrowed the idea and the recipe from HERE. I don't want to take any credit for coming up with this idea myself ;) I approached Claire and Anna Kate with the idea, and I'm sure they were saying "Tara has some real guts suggesting this since she can't even COOK!". But, in the end, I think they will say it was not has hard as we thought, and I think I helped just enough in the kitchen (and with my camera). They were shocked that I even own a zester!

I will let you go to Paige's blog for the actual recipe, but here are my photos of our hard work in progress! First, we zested our lemons.

Next, we mixed all of our ingredients in with the berry mix.

We then added our pie filling (with some butter) to the mini mason jars.

Next, we used a mason jar to cut our pie crust and placed them in the mouth of the jar.

We used a fork to make ridges around the edge of our crust. We also made a split in the top of the pies with a knife. After brushing a little butter on top, it was time for the oven!

The tops of the pies didn't turn out as pretty as planned, BUT we knew when added our stickers and fabric to the jars, it wouldn't matter.

And we were right. The finished product was to die for! They were adorable AND tasted very good! Trust me, I had mine warmed with a little scoop of ice cream and it was DELISH! So, you can ask us professionals if you have any questions when making your mini-mason jar pies! We thought it turned out super cute and yummy!