Pie-a-palooza

VegasFrank
VegasFrank Posts: 20,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
One thing you just may not know about me but could have probably guessed is that I am a pie fiend. During the holidays, I like to bake. So today, I baked 3 cinnamon chocolate pumpkin double layer pies, and a chocolate bourbon pecan pie. Tomorrow, I have a banana cream pie and strawberry rhubarb pie. Thursday I'm going to make some brioche chocolate bread pudding and a savory onion pie, which is a great breakfast treat or side item at the main meal.

Most of the recipes are out of a cookbook that I've tinkered with, but the chocolate pumpkin pie is what I've come up with on my own over the last 20 years. I start with a whole pie pumpkin... Sometimes I used two just to make sure I get two full cups of puree.

In case anyone wants it, here's the recipe.





@ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 

Comments

  • Poopy_Jones
    Poopy_Jones Posts: 455 ✭✭✭
    Daaayuuuuum that looks delish!!! I’d like to pair it with the 2017 Tatuaje TAA
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,503 ✭✭✭✭✭
    when I worked at a bakery we made those, minus the chocolate, very popular. Called a "prohibition pie" around here. I miss that job, worked from 2 to 8 or 10 AM and had the rest of the day for whatever.
  • Poker_Slob
    Poker_Slob Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mmmmmm....pie porn. Thanks Frank. Thanks looks awesome.
  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lol.  Pumpkin only just came out of the oven...a little shrinkage on the crust, but that's ok  B)


    @ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • Trykflyr_1
    Trykflyr_1 Posts: 2,514 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well hell's bells.....whoda thunk it?!
    I'm still troubled by what I did for that Klondike bar...
  • Sleddog46
    Sleddog46 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yakster said:
    I don't want no stinking recipes, give me a cheap flight to Vegas and a fork.
    Chris, I say screw the fork. I was thinking more of a snow shovel!!!!!
    You can't dispel Ignorance if you retain Arrogance!
  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
    An overflowing banana creme that I made with my daughter

    @ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • TNBigfoot68
    TNBigfoot68 Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Come on man, you killing my waist line just looking and drooling over the pictures. 
    Oh, did you know my favorite  pie is pie.  
    I was born a fool, and just got bigger!
  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2019
    Okay, family desert challenge.  We all get a plate: 
    Banana cream pie with cool whip
    Chocolate pumpkin pie with homemade cinnamon topping
    Warm chocolate bread pudding with WC and chocolate sauce

    Each kid helped me make one of them.  Verdict:. Chocolate pumpkin pie by a landslide.  It was 4-1-0 in favor of the double layer pie. 5 votes if you count the yellow lab who got the first one last night.  I was the only holdout for the bread pudding, but the kids didn't like the texture (which was spot-on textbook perfect).  No votes for the banana cream, though my oldest daughter who helped me wasn't upset.  We kept the bourbon pie out of the challenge because it was too boozy  B)
    @ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • 12Ultralimited
    12Ultralimited Posts: 48 ✭✭✭
    I'd share a pic of the homemade mincemeat pie, but I wasn't quick enough with the camera. My brother, who has sworn for years that he hated mincemeat, tried a piece to be kind to me. I wish he hadn't - he insisted I leave another when we left.
    Thank God Christmas is around to corner, I will be baking again for sure!
  • Poker_Slob
    Poker_Slob Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pie pics?
  • Heavysetrapier
    Heavysetrapier Posts: 642 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes please
  • Poker_Slob
    Poker_Slob Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Would you put a slice in the freezer for me? I'll try to get there sometime in 2020.
  • Sleddog46
    Sleddog46 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Upcoming.  I made a vanilla bean cheesecake with a white chocolate vanilla bean mousse and a whipped Cream with a slight hint of cappuccino.  Haven't cut into it yet, though....
    Would you put a slice in the freezer for me? I'll try to get there sometime in 2020.
    @VegasFrank Do you ship???? Oh that looks so good. I can almost taste it looking/drooling over the picture!
    You can't dispel Ignorance if you retain Arrogance!
  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Would you put a slice in the freezer for me? I'll try to get there sometime in 2020.
    Nonsense brother. Come out and see me and I'll bake you one...
    @ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • VegasFrank
    VegasFrank Posts: 20,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sleddog46 said:
    Upcoming.  I made a vanilla bean cheesecake with a white chocolate vanilla bean mousse and a whipped Cream with a slight hint of cappuccino.  Haven't cut into it yet, though....
    Would you put a slice in the freezer for me? I'll try to get there sometime in 2020.
    @VegasFrank Do you ship???? Oh that looks so good. I can almost taste it looking/drooling over the picture!
    Ha!  Same offer.... We should do in North Las Vegas herf/pie convention!
    @ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones.