Ceramic Red Poppy Pie Plate

Desserts will always be remembered when you bake up and serve your finest pies in our lovely poppy pie plate.

Just bursting with beautiful red poppies, light blue flowers, and peach-colored poppy buds, our red poppy pie plate is one of our newest additions. Not only an exquisite example of our 100% handcrafted ceramics, this poppy pie plate will perform time and time again to give you fantastic baking results.

Our ceramic pie plates are a perfect bake and serve piece for your special desserts! Also, some folks tell us they use them to serve pasta instead of a regular plate. Whatever creative way you come up with for using our frilly pie plates, our quality craftsmanship goes into every piece, giving you a piece of ceramic servingware that will last for years.

All our ceramic servingware is handmade and handpainted at Emerson Creek Pottery. All pieces are microwave and dishwasher safe, ovenproof, and 100% lead free.

Winning Recipe for Chocolate Raspberry Comfort Cake!

This semi-sweet cake should have contrast to the sweet raspberry caramel syrup. This recipe was developed to use family favorite flavors. It is a beautiful cake rich with great depth - just like our family!!

1 pound Ghirardelli semi sweet chocolate chips
2 sticks unsweetened butter
8 eggs
1 4 cup coffee
1/4 cup raspberry syrup

Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and line an 8 inch spring form Pan. Melt chocolate and butter together in a medium sized bowl. In a separate bowl beat eggs until frothy and thick. Add eggs to chocolate mixture until all incorporated. Stir in coffee and raspberry. Pour into prepared pan. Place pan in large oven pan and fill half way with boiling water. Bake cake in water bath about 25 minutes until cake is set. Remove from oven and cool on rack two hours. Refrigerate for four hours.

Caramel sauce

1 1 /2 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons raspberry syrup

Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan. Do not stir. Bring to a boil. Lower heat and add cream, butter and raspberry syrup. Whisk together. Decorate / serve with cake. Extra caramel can be served warm.

Garnish: whipped cream and fresh raspberries
Serves 8-10.

Use a wet knife to serve.
To serve: place a slice of cake on a white plate drizzled with caramel sauce. Drizzle more across the top and add a dollop of whipped cream and a few fresh raspberries. Delightful!

D. Ryan, Massachusetts