February 17, 2019
Ellie knows that the best pie out there is apple pie. And fortunately, we have stumbled upon the best apple pie recipe out there. Our friend Tami brought a pie to a party once, and Matt looked at Shelly after one bite and said, “Who made this pie? We can never have another apple pie again.” It was THAT good. The best part about apple pie, which Matt and Ellie made sure to take advantage of? Pie for breakfast the next day.
February 10, 2019
Annie loves chocolate. She has had a hard time with the Pie Project when it comes to non-chocolate pies. So she took the opportunity to make up a recipe herself: homemade Oreo crust, chocolate pudding. Bam: pie! No whipped cream, even, for Annie. Just chocolate. The girl knows what she likes.
Notes: The Oreo crust consisted of butter and crushed-up Oreos. She used instant pudding from a box.
February 3, 2019
In the wake of everyone else trying out weird and new pies, Leah chose to go for something tried and true. She just wanted a traditional strawberry pie. Pie shell, strawberries, and the glaze you buy at Safeway. So that’s what she got. And, of course, although it’s not unusual, there’s a reason strawberry pie is so popular.
January 27, 2019
Kate was up this week. In preparation for this week, Shelly started asking Kate what kind of pie she wanted to make. She kept saying chocolate, but Shelly kept pestering her to specify what kind of chocolate pie she wanted. She finally announced that she wanted to make a “chocolate fudge pie.” Shelly said “I don’t have a recipe for chocolate fudge pie.” Kate rolled her eyes and said, “Look on your phone, Mom.” So Shelly googled those exact words on her phone and showed Kate all of the pictures of chocolate fudge pies that came up in the search. Kate picked her favorite looking one and that’s the one we made.
This pie is easily the best new pie we’ve had so far (writing this in March). Everyone loved it. It tastes like a lava cake in pie form – super rich, moist and very yummy. We served it warm with vanilla bean ice cream. Perfection!
Notes: We didn’t have enough shortening to make our regular pie crust, so we used this butter-based pie crust instead. It was really yummy.
January 20, 2019
One of our favorite new pies that we tried out in November 2018 was the Atlantic Beach Pie, on the recommendation of Matt’s brother. It’s basically a lemon curd pie (based on sweetened condensed milk), but the real kicker is the saltine-cracker crust. The sweet and salty combination was awesome. So for Matt’s first pie of 2019, he chose to do it again, but this time with lime instead of lemon. After all, it’s very close to a traditional key lime pie. It turned out fantastic, but honestly, it’s better in lemon.
January 13, 2019
Week 2 belonged to Shelly. She picked a Hot Chocolate Pie, which Matt thought was really a misnomer, because it was cold. It got the name from the fact that it included chocolate and a marshmallow cream topping. Everyone enjoyed this one.
Notes: If making this pie again, we would chill the pie after adding the marshmallow whipped topping. The marshmallow cream didn’t hold its shape as well as we would have liked. We also skipped the crushed candy canes, because it wasn’t Christmas anymore.
January 6, 2019
Ellie started the year off with oatmeal pie. It was warm and gooey and carmelly. Just like a bowl of sweet oatmeal in a pie crust. It was surprisingly similar to pecan pie. Ellie loved it, Matt and Shelly liked it, and the rest of the family didn’t care for it.
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