Step 1: Make a plan for how you will build the chocolate and raspberry pies within pies.
2 Assemble all possible ingredients.
3. Investigate the assembled templates of rounditude and add on a "chocolate pie crust" smaller than 9".
4. All frozen pie recipes call for "One container of Cool Whip." The "would you like 'cream' or 'oil?'" commercials have so turned you against Cool Whip you make your own whipped cream.
5. Combine half the whipped cream with frozen raspberries and 1 cup of raspberry juice, which you don't have. Add apple juice to the juice from the frozen raspberry package and augment with Chambord. (Hint: Don't remember that this is a frozen dessert and that alcohol doesn't freeze until step 10.)
6. Decide your chocolate filling isn't really chocolate enough and look around for something to add. Because all recipes have already been cast off as too restrictive, add this:
7. Pour raspberry into two of the pies. Realize that will not work according to the plan and remove raspberries:
8. Make better plan and vow to stick to it:
8. Freeze everything for four hours.
9. Remove from freezer.
10. Stack the pies.
11. Using a pastry bag, immediately pipe the wrong filling into the first pie. Say "Screw the plan" and fill in the gaps with chocolate on the bottom, raspberry on top.
12. Freeze.
It's freezing right now, along with the pre-bought Oreo crust filled with the extra raspberry filling. I'll update after I've slightly thawed and sliced it.
Update:===============================================
This would have been much more dramatic if I had followed the plan.
OMG, you're near St Louis, right? If I leave now, I can be there tomorrow. Wait for meeeeeee
Posted by: Shania | April 10, 2010 at 05:13 PM
I'm a little nervous to discover that you're giving me a partial credit for this er, project. But full marks for perseverance. I'm sitting here on the other side of the world waiting for the climax. It's a bit like the moon landing.
Also, that's a nifty measuring jug, what a clever design.
Posted by: TravelSkite | April 10, 2010 at 07:53 PM
Yum?
Posted by: Hattie | April 11, 2010 at 01:49 PM
Shania - We could have used your help. Only one friend finished her slice.
Big Dot - I know. A gift from Mom. If there's no KMart in NZ, look up "Oxo Angled Measuring Cup" on the net.
Hattie - Well, everyone agreed that the real piecrust - chocolate combo was successful, but the raspberry was too icy and tart.
Posted by: TheQueen | April 11, 2010 at 06:58 PM
I'm not a fan of raspberry, but everything else was great. I couldn't finish my serving.
Is 1/6 of piepiepiepie equivalent to 1.5 pies?
Posted by: Caroline | April 11, 2010 at 07:01 PM
What the hell is wrong with you. PIE IS GOOD ENOUGH WITHOUT YOU MAKING IT INTO SOME SORT OF HYBRID MONSTER. Stop it! You're like the Dr. Moreau of desserts!
Also, that's the same measuring cup that I have. I have the 1-cup, 2-cup-4-cup set. They're awesome.
Posted by: Tami | April 12, 2010 at 01:19 PM
You can play Dr Moreau of Desserts at my house ANY TIME.
Posted by: velocibadgergirl | April 12, 2010 at 07:56 PM
Caoline - I don't know. Is that a math joke?
Tami - Well, I have the 2 oz 1, 2, 4 cup set! Where's your 2 oz? Hah! And I can make Frankenpie or MoreauPie or Grapple/Tangelo Pie or anything I want.
velocibadgergirl - Next I'm thinking a cake / cheesecake combo.
Posted by: TheQueen | April 12, 2010 at 11:07 PM
Yours came with a 2oz? I feel so ripped off.
Grapple pie sounds great, and I'm totally down with cake/cheesecake combos, but all the pie crust involved in these pie-to-the-eighth desserts make me itchy. I really only like crusts on the outside of things. Eh, Maybe I'm just PMS-ing. Certainly I'm the girl who put white chocolate cream cheese buttercream on the outside of a cheesecake so I could decorate it.
Posted by: Tami | April 13, 2010 at 08:42 AM
I have the 2oz one of those cups. I used it just yesterday, to make myself a margarita.
The PiePiePiePie is a thing of very great beauty and imagination.
Posted by: magpie | April 13, 2010 at 02:46 PM
(Yes, Tami, too much crust, that's what I reckon too. That's why the RING system would work so well.)
Cake and cheesecake: now you're talking. How about a carrot cake with a cheesecake insert? Or several, if you want to be fancy. Aim for a flat, bull's-eye effect (ha) rather than a mountain.
We have K-Mart here, and Oxo brand stuff: I think this will be an easy quest.
Posted by: TravelSkite | April 13, 2010 at 04:15 PM
Tami - Have you ever taken an unbaked piecrust, flattened it out, covered it with sugar and cinnamon and baked it? Gary introduced me to that. No such thing as Too Much Crust.
Magpie - The right tool for the right job. A shotglass with an exact measurement. I'm using mine as a shotglass from now on.
Big Dot - Hm - but what will keep it from disconnecting when it is served? I could dip it in chocolate...
Posted by: TheQueen | April 13, 2010 at 07:23 PM
Maybe one piecrust to rule them all?
Posted by: TravelSkite | April 14, 2010 at 07:17 PM
Big Dot - I like that idea. Give me a month or so.
Posted by: TheQueen | April 14, 2010 at 11:01 PM
You make cinnamon toast with pie crust? Huh. You're not making your own crusts, right? So I don't have to worry that you're doing something like adding pounds of sugar to it, do I?
Posted by: Tami | April 15, 2010 at 08:17 AM
Tami - Hahahaha. I could never make my own crust. I let the Doughboy do it.
Posted by: TheQueen | April 15, 2010 at 09:27 PM