March 31, 2019
Our cinnamon lover, Ellie, was excited a few weeks ago to find a recipe for Cinnamon Pie. It’s been in the works for some time, and today she made the pie all by herself (with some help on the crust from Mom). It was a kind of cream cheese custard pie, with cinnamon and nutmeg. The result looked like a brown pumpkin pie, and it tasted like a spice cake. Annie ventured a bite and declared it “too spicy,” but the rest of the family liked it. We talked a lot about what it reminded us of: pumpkin pie, cream cheese-based pies, and cinnamon rolls. The butter crust we used was a good compliment to the pie – Ellie may have put a little too much salt into the crust, but we couldn’t decide if that made it better or worse. Now that Ellie has made three pies, her official opinion is that nothing is better than apple pie (except maybe key lime pie), and as between oatmeal pie and cinnamon pie (do you notice a trend here?), she says, “Neither. They’re both really good.”
The Pie Project 