January 21st- "Oreo" Cheesecake

Speaking of not always pretty, this Oreo cheesecake was kind of a mess! Zem is modeling it to make it look more delicious. Is it working?
I should have stirred the Newman O's into the filling and made the crumbs less fine. Oh well. I also wanted to put whipped cream on it, but Dan didn't want me to use all of it. It was finally in stock at Whole Foods, but it's really expensive!

January 19th- Love Pie

 

To me, love is the combination of strawberries and vegan cream cheese. (There was also vanilla, vegan sour cream, sugar, and maybe some other stuff.)

But love is not always pretty. Sometimes it is missing the sweet glaze that keeps it from looking dried up and wrinkly.

January 18th- Shoofly Pie

A Pennsylvania Dutch Classic

January 17th- Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Pie

This boozy number was made on a whim with some dumpstered bananas. We made a thick sauce of peanut butter, cocoa powder, soy milk, chocolate liquor, and maybe some other stuff. We layered bananas and the paste in a graham cracker crust. Then it was baked for some unknown amount of time. We fried bananas to put on top and added more chocolate liquor and chocolate sauce on top.

January 16th- Three Pies!

This day was a big make up day!
The first pie I made sugar free for my housemate. It's strawberries and blueberries cooked on the stovetop, placed in a crust made from the usual pie crust.
The second pie is chocolate strawberry mousse. The mousse is from this recipe, minus the cherry. The crust is the usual crust. Strawberries were food processed into the mousse.
The third pie is a political statement that Dan brougth to the coop staff retreat. It's pecan, and the filling is from this recipe. Guess what the crust is.

January 15th- Pineapple Upside-Down Pie

More concept pies! Originally, I was going to make a right-side-up pie, but I realized that upside-down could work.
Crust: Same as yesterday
Filling ingredients:
Can of pineapple rings
2T EB, melted
1/4c brown sugar
Bag of frozen cherries
1/2c sugar
1/2c flour

Instructions:
Spread Earth Balance and brown sugar on bottom of pan. Use crust to make a ring around the side (not bottom!). Put pineapple slices on bottom in upside-down cake formation. Add cherries to the pineapple middles carefully. Mix all remaining ingredients and put on top of pineapple rings. Cut up any remaining pineapple rings and place on top of cherries. Drink delicious pineapple can juice. Add top crust and put in a few slits for venting.
Bake for however long at 375F. Cool, invert. SHAZAAM! It’s upside-fucking-down!

January 14th- Bananas Foster Pie

 

I thought I was so creative when I came up with the idea for a bananas foster pie. Google disagrees. Apparently, it’s supposed to be a cream pie. I can’t seem to find vegan cool whip or vegan whipped cream anymore. I have a carton and a half of soy whip, but I don’t know what I’ll do when that’s gone! Anyway, after reading through the standard recipes, I decided to go ahead and make it the way I imagined. I couldn’t find my usual bananas foster recipe, so I based it off this site. I changed the crust from another Killer Pies recipe. I decided to try a crust with equal parts shortening and earth balance to see what the difference would be.

Crust:
2 ½ c flour
1/2c shortening (EB brand)
1/2c earth balance
1 T sugar
1T egg replacer
5/8c ice water

As I have been doing with all crusts lately, I blended it in the food processor with everything except for the water until it gets crumbly. Then I slowly pulse in the water. I pat it out to two disks and refridgerate for as long as my patience allows (an hour ideally).

Filling:
3 bananas, cut once along the full length and then into thirds.
1c walnuts, chopped (I would have used pecans, but I didn’t want to go out in the cold again)
1/4c earth balance, melted
1c brown sugar
1/4c rum
1/4c water
1/2t cinnamon

Instructions:
Lined up bananas in crust. Sprinkled walnuts on bananas. Mixed all other ingredients in the food processor and poured on top. Baked at 375F until the crust is brown. By the way, I’m just baking until the crust is brown because I’m lazy and don’t know a better way to do it.