Deep Dish Pecan Pie

At work, we designate one day a month to celebrate everyone's birthday that falls during that month. Well, one of the guys in our group had a birthday this past week, but was out of town for the party, so I thought I'd bake something. He had mentioned liking pecans before, and I had been wanting to try this recipe anyway, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to try it.

Now, I'd never made a pecan pie before. Well, I'd never even had pecan pie before. So this was all completely new to me. Although, after being horrified at the ingredient list, I came to the conclusion that anything with that much corn syrup in it would have to taste okay.


The pie filling looked pretty gross. You know when you're at a lake or something, and there's a bunch of sticks floating near the shore, and you suddenly change your mind about wanting to go for a swim? That's what the filling reminded me of. So I covered it with pecan halves. I tried to make it look like pictures of pecan pie that I've seen in the past.

Matt from MattBites is a professional. I mean, literally a professional food photographer. I'm a huge fan of his work. But I still have no idea how he got such a clean cut on his pie. It's really amazing, and makes mine look terrible. However, looks don't affect taste, and this tasted awesome. Of course, I didn't really have anything to compare it to, but the guys at work and my parents all thought it was good. Also, I have no idea if whipped cream is a proper topping for pecan pie, but that and some cinnamon was awfully tasty.



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Happy Pi Day!

Today (3/14) is Pi Day (3.14). Festivities include calculating the area of circles and eating pie. So it's basically the 3rd best holiday out there, after Christmas and Talk Like a Pirate Day.

To celebrate this wonderfully geeky holiday, I made a peanut butter pie last night and brought it into work today. It was generally well-received, although it's quite high in calories. Probably almost dangerously so. But so are most things that taste good, right?



For the decoration, I stuck some strips of duct tape onto a piece of cardboard and cut out the shape of a pi symbol. Be sure to draw it backwards, which is actually more difficult than it should be. Carefully lift it off the cardboard and place it (sticky side up) over the finished pie. Then just sprinkle crushed-up Oreo cookies over it and lift the tape stencil off. Easy as 3.14159!

Peanut Butter Pie recipe from RecipeZaar.

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