To mark the opening of WAITRESS, BakeSpace is having a "Name Your Own Life-Inspired Pie" Contest."
To submit your own life-inspired pie: (FYI - this contest is over, but you can still submit your story.)
1) Ask me to join your network of friends (click the kitchen helper link on the right) and send me an invite.
2) Once I accept, leave me a brownie point with the name of your own life-inspired pie and a brief list of ingredients. (FYI- The brownie point button is at the bottom of my profile and you can only see it if we're friends).
Members who submit the five most interesting pie names (as judged by a small but dedicated panel of BakeSpace staff members) will win a nifty prize packages. We'll announce the winners in the next BakeSpace newsletter.
"My Boss is a Hateful Bitch" Pie
Chocolate cookie crumb crust filled iwth a layer of hot fudge, chocolate icecream, another layer of hot fudge, big chunks of chocolate cookies, more chocloate icecream, and dark chocolate curls on top. Because who doesn't need chocolate after putting up with a horrible person for 8 hours a day?
"Everyone is always better dressed than I" Pie
SPILL chocolate crumbs into a pie dish(not on your lap). DRIBBLE melted butter over crumbs and a little sugar. Mix and press into pan. Bake crust. Melt your favorite ice cream and smash gently into crust..tucking in your favorite colorful (ie staining) fruit..cherries, blackberries et al.Freeze and top with chocolate decorations...standing them up when they fall over or break...Try to avoid dripping yummy pie on your new white blose, and enjoy.
Burned and Bitter Pie
Carefully press sweet dough into a pie dish or tart shell....chill...bake thoroughly (half baked won't do). Whisk whole eggs and sugar till foamy..add lemon juice and lots of lemon peel..add flour. Pour into baked shell...Bake in low oven until just set, try not to curdle. Do your best now! Chill (thoroughly)finished pie, then sprinkle liberally with turbinado sugar and torch until well burned. Repeat for several layers until you've built up a good solid layer (protective wall).
My pie is:"After Five Weddings I Just Want a Marriage Pie."
Start with a very traditional flaky crust, add sliced apples (for the wholesome everyday), drizzle with semi-sweet chocolate (with just a pinch of cayenne pepper to keep the spice going) sprikle in pecans, layer with vanilla custard and top with white meringue (to represent the weddings--the real goodness underneath you just can't see at first. :)
My Life is A Country Song Pie
Graham Cracker crust (graham all over the back seat of the car)
Blueberries (I cried while pickin' them in the woods so my husband didn't see me)
Sugar (this won't sweeten him but I will try anyway)
Flour (to take the redness out of my face from Crying)
top with brown sugar (the dirt that is flying as I get out of town)
"Life Before Children Pie" = Ingredients:
Pate sucre crust lovingly mixed by hand, and patiently chilled until ready to roll. Caramelize some brown sugar with butter, very slowly so it doesn't burn. Peel and core some granny smith apples, maxing sure you get all the seeds out, and peel off. Add to the caramel and cook over a low slow flame until the apples start to caramelize. Add heavy cream and stir until creamy. Take off heat and slowly add 1/8"x1/8" cubes of butter, stirring constantly until throughly silky and glossy. Pour into chilled prepared crust and bake at 300 for 60 minutes. Sit back relax and enjoy the smell, and let your husband clean the dirty dishes.
USE YOUR NOODLE PIE is a pie I would create for the time when I met my brainy husband. It would consist of a tasty pie shell filled with left-over, cooked spaghetti noodles and a custard made from sugar, cage-free eggs and farm fresh cream (all of which would be thoroughly researched for the best quality ingredients and earth-friendly farming practices.
Partying in Ireland Because I Finished My Exams Pie by Carla C
Marshmallow fluff - relax and catch up on sleep Bailey's Irish cream - studied abroad in Ireland Semisweet chocolate chips - sweet feeling I'm finished.
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HAPPY BABY pies: GIRLS: Sugar and spice and everything nice with a little laced sugar and decorate on top with a little ring. The ring is for the complex and sometime difficult life a woman leads; the precious tasks she chooses and the beauty of it all. BOYS: A chocolate brownie base pie with chocolate and peanut butter chips and nuts. A small sugar cookie set in the top center. The chips are the battles a man chooses and overcomes in his life and the nuts are the interesting bits he finds along the way. The cookie is the sweetness he finds once he is "centered" and focused.
When I stand on my head I see the world up side down so I want to call my pie
"upside down pie" - the filling consisting of vanilla ice cream mixed with peanut butter
will be at the bottom and on the top will be the crust consisting of peanut butter,
corn syrup, and puffed rice cereal.
"Honey Do and Honey Don't" pies: Honey Do with honey and nuts and chocolate chips melted with simple syrup and whipped into whipping cream (or topping). A fitting pie for a job well done, honey! Honey Don't - well, lose the whipping cream/whipped topping. Take your base mixture (above) and whip it into a lowfat vanilla pudding. Sorry, honey, you need to lose some weight since you can't seem to take care of my list!
My Pie is called: 'The Mammogram Misery Pie'
Ingredients - Pie Crust, Overripe Apricots, Peaches, or Oranges (use the one that best reflects your cup size). Squish fruit between two cookie sheets until they cry and juice bursts out. Toss the squished fruit in the pie crust and cover with lemon juice and top with a crumbly crust.
Those mammories won't ever look like the fruit they once were. sigh.
Am I Ready to Get Married or Not? Pie
Take a store bought pie crust, thawed out of course. Mix up some instant chocolate and vanilla puddings. Start with a layer of chocolate pudding, then layer in some vanilla, then another layer of chocolate, then another layer of vanilla, then end with a dollop of chocolate on top. Throw some chocolate shavings on top just for the heck of it. Freeze until ready.
"I'm Tired of Going to Work" pie - summer berries cooked down gently in white sugar, brown sugar, a touch of balsamic and a spoonful of honey. Set in a graham cracker crust and dusted with confectioner's sugar. Summer and sugar - what I'd be doing at home today!
"I wish American Idol would be cancelled" pie - I'm so sick of this show. Here's what would be in my pie ... chocolate crust with a peanutbutter center and chunks of chocolate bar with a chocolate pie crust top. Large chunks of sugar would be sprinkled across the top.
Ever wonder who the hell you are? Here's my pie...
"I don't know if I'm a pie or a cake" pie - bake a pie crust and bake one layer of a cake. Once the cake is cooled, fill the pie crust with the cake (trim sides down) so it will fit. Then pour chocolate sauce and place cubes of caramel on it and cover with pie crust.. Put in the oven to cook the rest of the way and add a scoop of ice cream.
"I bought peach lipstick once and it almost ruined my life pie" ... take a peach cobbler and add one more layer to it - a crust tipping that laces the cobbler topping. Then baste with butter for shine. This pie is inspired by a man I net once to proposed and I almost said yes. He loved my peach colored lipstick and I should have known he was a cross dresser... I'm not sharing my shoes with anybody! :)
"I'm all about the bling" pie... chocolate filling with banana cream pie filling, glide whipped cream over the top and then perfectly place candy jewlery on it.. kind of like a "bedazzler" or how ever you spell it. If you want it to look ghetto.. make it look like a rappers necklace.
"Will he ever propose" Pie... Take a perfect crust and add some coconut cream filling. Perfectly decorate the pie with flower bursts from a star tip. Then.. ask him if he's going to propose.. If he says yes, eat the pie together. If he says no.. throw the pie at him and run.
My pie's name is "Jenna is a Hottie Pie" and it's a banana cream pie base with whipped cream on the top and shaved coconut that's been slightly toasted.
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away" pie - Take flaky crust and mix it with finely chopped apples so the apples embed into the crust. Then you slice up apples and line the pie. On top, you put strips of crust (also with the small chunks of apple) and top with a light coating of butter to give it a gloss and to show the small chunks of apple. That's it!
"It doesn't hurt that much pie"... Ever have a baby? Well.. then you know what I'm talking about. This is a custard filled pie with a creme brule topping... it looks nice and smooth, until you crack it open with one slice and the entire crust cracks... but it's oh so good.
"I have too many shoes but still want more pie!" Its an upsidedown fruit "cobbler" (get it? ha ha ha). Crust is my crinkle cobbler topping but pressed into the pie dish and prebaked. Oatmeal, brown sugar, flour and butter. Any fruit filling (I like peaches best! They are almost as good as GREAT pair of shoes!). Serve a la mode! Your "outifit" is complete!
You gotta admire her spunk. I would make Jenna my "Oh, sweet baby I cry a lot pie." It would be loaded with chopped pecans, dark chocolate, brown sugar and enough Kaluha to bring tears to one's eyes.
QuickBooks by Day/Art Pimp by Night Pie
- White balsamic custard in a crushed pretzel crust topped with precisely 32 fresh raspberries and 48 blueberries...
For the bad days: "Am I Blue?" Berry Pie
One 9-inch round store bought pie crust
3 c. fresh blueberries
1/4 c. sugar
1 T. lemon juice
fresh tears to taste
Bring blueberries, sugar, lemon juice and tears to a boil over medium heat, reduce heat and simmer until filling has reached desired consistency. Pour into prepared crust and chill until firm.
WARNING: Angry tears are saltier than sad tears so make sure you know which kind of blue you are before you begin baking. Adjust sugar as necessary.
For the good days: "Life is Like a Bowl of Cherries" Pie
One 9-inch round store bought pie crust
3 c. fresh cherries, pits removed
1/4 c. sugar
1 T. lemon juice
2 T. water
Bring cherries, sugar, lemon juice and water to a boil over medium heat, reduce heat and simmer until filling has reached desired consistency. Pour into prepared crust and chill until firm.
I need to get a new job cause I don't fit in pie - chocolate crust, filled with fresh strawberries and chocolate chunks and chocolate pudding. (I'm the strawberries) covered in a chocolate flavored pie crust lattice stitch what feels like a cage.
