October 6, 2019
Last week there was this whole controversy over whether or not cheesecake is pie. (That’s silly; of course it is.) This week, however, the question is: If it doesn’t have a crust, can it be pie? Since it’s now October, Kate, who has been planning her Halloween costume for weeks, decided she wanted a Halloween candy pie. She didn’t seem to care that it would be a lot easier to do a Halloween candy pie after Halloween, when we have all the candy. We considered a few possibilities, including just throwing a bunch of candy into a pie shell and baking/melting it all together.
Ultimately, she settled on a Halloween candy cookie pie, which basically consisted of making a bunch of chocolate chip cookie dough and throwing all the candy into it, and then baking it in a pie pan. There was no crust – it was just a big cookie with crazy mix-ins, with some chocolate frosting dollops around the edge. And Kate showed no discrimination in what she threw in. M&Ms are practically normal. Reese’s peanut butter cups make sense. Kit Kats would be fine. But she also put in Skittles, Nerds, and Starbursts. It tasted just like you would expect a large cookie with Reese’s, Nerds, and Skittles to taste. Some of us liked it, others didn’t care for it at all. But it’s not entirely certain that it was pie.
The Pie Project 