Pies That Make You Angry

[xoxoxoBruce]

Only angry 'cause I ain't got one.

One Philadelphia bakery dreamed up this ultimate fall dessert: pumpkin and apple pies baked in chocolate and vanilla cake, fused together and surrounded by buttercream icing.

This oversize creation weighs in at a whopping 15 pounds and measures more than a foot tall. And at 1,800 calories a slice, it's not for the faint of heart.

The Flying Monkey, located in Philadelphia’s famous Reading Terminal Market, bakes this dessert-lover’s fantasy from scratch over the course of two days. It starts with the pies, which it par-bakes. The half-cooked pumpkin pie is dipped into chocolate cake batter and baked. The apple pie and vanilla cake get the same treatment and are baked on top of the chocolate cake. Its massive size means that it spends hours in the oven. Homemade buttercream is then — literally — the icing on the entire cake.

[Trilby]

"What's for desert? Three deserts!"

[Pico and ME]

LOOK at all that icing....makes my teeth hurt.

[wolf]

Mince, definitely mince. It's not a proper pie if it's got meat in it. I don't even know what's in mincemeat, nor do I wish to. Science Fiction films of the Fifties and Sixties have taught me a lot, most importantly, that there are some things man was not meant to know.

Shepard's Pie is clearly the result of some freaky British word usage. No flaky pastry crust there, it's not pie.

And before somebody points it out, potpie is a compound word, not having any fruity pie-like qualities, rather like monkeyfucking doesn't actually involve either monkeys or fucking.

[Sundae]

Red sky at night, shepherds delight.
Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning.
Minced meat and mashed potato, shepherds pie.

Hope that clears it up for you.

I am angry at mincemeat (note no gap) pies.
They are Christmas fodder and therefore already in the shops.
Any gathering offering "refreeshments" held after about... oh, tomorrow - will have these and pretty much nothing else.

Not that I turn up to events just because free food is offered of course.
Okay, I do.
And I don't want mince-sodding-pies.
Especially NOT homemade - bleurgh! I'm sure you are a lovely person but you are NOT a pastry chef! And I'm not a great fan of pastry even when it's done well (Pieminister Pies excepted, because then it is done VERY well))

I've no doubt I'll be subjected to these at school over the next two months.
No. I don't like.
Sausage rolls, okay.
Peanuts at a far push.
Mince pies - stuff them where the wassailers don't go.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Mincemeat. Minced meat. There is a difference.

[monster]

Mince pies rock, especially homemade with homemade mincemeat. I hated them as a kid, though..... and Mr Kipling's mince pies make me angry -that pastry is for pants.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The suet helps them slide down easier, after a big turkey day dinner.

[sad_winslow]

The only pie that pisses me off is the pumpkin one that I tried to make a week ago and the crust burned.

I've got another one in the oven right now and i'm trying again with a better crust, waiting to see if the sonofabitch is going to mess up again. hopefully not, and then i'll have my first successful pie

never been much of a baker, but it's pretty fun. I've made tolerably good bread a couple times, and I've also got some cookie bars in the oven right now.

EDIT: Yeah, ok, this pie is pissing me off too. the crust isn't burnt yet but it's taking like 2x longer than it should to cook properly in the middle, and my oven thermometer says it's the right temp in there and everything. argh. grrr.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Good luck, wet pies are tricky to get the center done without burning the fringe. How about wrapping some foil around the edge?

[sad_winslow]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Good luck, wet pies are tricky to get the center done without burning the fringe. How about wrapping some foil around the edge?

actually i changed crusts and it worked out great. it still took like twice as long to cook as it should have, but it ended up being good in the end, so I'll take what I can get.

I was told that sweet potato pie, for some reason, cooks better than pumpkin, while tasting almost identical. i may have to give it a shot next.

[xoxoxoBruce]

One of my foremen at Boeing, owned a rib joint in North Philly. Southern style ribs with all the fixin's, and sweet potato pie that would knock your socks off.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by sad_winslow

I was told that sweet potato pie, for some reason, cooks better than pumpkin, while tasting almost identical. i may have to give it a shot next.

If you like pumpkin pie, you'll like sweet potato -- they use pretty much the same spice mix and the texture is the same. You can tell the difference, but you'll still like it.

[ZenGum]

Har-pies make me angry. I work with one.

Christmas mince pies here are done with minced fruit.

I am regretfully tolerant that the Cellar Pie is still absent. I hope she comes back soon.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

"Mincemeat" pie is become an etymological appendix to the pie itself -- a trace of what once was. Well, there's an old-school mince-pie recipe in The Most Recent Recipe Thread, which you'll need to scoop out of ancient times now unless somebody Bumps it.

Pie for me does not have to be a sweet dessert. I'm plenty happy with it being savory, gravied, and pastry crusted as an entrée. It's very medieval...