This is the last pie I’ll make for Pie-A-Week.
Thanks to anyone who enjoyed this experiment! I think mostly my husband benefited from it, since he got a lot of pie, but it also gave me a year to refine my baking techniques! I’ll be adding additional posts to this blog as they come up, detailing other cooking projects I do, roundups of what I’ve learned, and other stuff, though it may not happen on a weekly basis.
This pie took a Graham Cracker crust. This can easily be store-bought, but this time I made my own by pulverizing the crackers in the food processor, adding some butter, and pressing into the pan. Bake for about 10 minutes to firm it up.
My post-Christmas kitchen was such a mess. It’s better now, honest.
This pie has two main flavors:
Cocoa
and Brandy
And the filling was easy, as it’s mostly made in the blender.
Here we have the layered look of all the ingredients for the filling:
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 5oz can evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla
3 tbsp brandy
3 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder
Here it is all blended up.
Pour in to crust…
Bake at 325 degrees for 50 minutes. Serve with whipped cream. It has a nice brownie-like consistency with a little brandy bite.
So turns out a very popular present to buy for me this Christmas was baking stuff… to make cupcakes… So I don’t think that giving up on baking projects will be happening any time soon! Not sure I’m really ready to take the plunge on cupcake-a-week.
Happy 2011!
