Pi(e) Day: Apple pi
Submitted by floribunda on Sun, 03/15/2009 - 21:01
Dave and I had a few people over last night to celebrate Pi(e) Day. Pi(e) Day can only be properly celebrated with lots of pie. We had lots of homemade pizza by Dave, including margerita, pepperoni, roasted garlic & ricotta, artichoke & sundried tomato, and pesto mozzarella mushroom, and I made apple pie and chocolate pudding pie. The chocolate pudding pie was a recipe invented by my friend Sonny, and it was awesome. The apple pie looked perfect, but for some reason the apples came out a little underbaked, so it wasn't my best pie ever. Next year! Or, maybe next week.
Read more about Pi Day on Wikipedia.
See lots of photos of our pie and pizza making on Flickr.
Eat some leftover pie: our house!
recipe
What's the recipe for the chocolate puddin' pie? :)
Sonny's chocolate pudding pie, direct from Sonny
ingredients:
pudding:
* 1/2 cup sugar
* 4 tablespoons cornstarch
* 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
* 3 cups milk (any kind is fine, even soymilk works pretty well believe it or not)
* 4 ounces chocolate - whatever you want. i usually just use semi-sweet chocolate chips.
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* if you want it spicy: ground cinnamon and cayenne
crust: i made a graham cracker crust. just blend graham crackers (about a third of a box) in food processor, add half stick of melted butter, a little sugar, and some cinnamon if you want. press it into a pie pan and bake for about 15 minutes until it's nice a brown (this is the only baking you do. 350 degrees)
topping:
fresh whipped cream blended with some sugar, cinnamon (if you want) and i threw in some cream cheese for extra excitement.
first make the crust.
then:
put milk in a pot with corn starch and whisk and dissolve corn starch some (before turning on heat). then turn on heat to medium and add sugar and cocoa powder. keep whisking as it comes to a slow boil. once it starts boiling it will start thickening. keep whisking whisking whisking until fairly thick (just a couple minutes after thickening begins - you'll notice a transition, then just keep it going for a couple mins). then turn off heat and at all the other ingredients and whisk them in, melt the chocolate. you can turn heat back onto low if you want to help it melt nicely.
pour the pudding into the done crust, and let cool for a few minutes. then refrigerate for a few hours until cool and set.
after it's cool make the topping and spread it on top. you could grate some dark chocolate on the very top for aesthetic purposes.