A chocolate meringue pie, cooling on a black wire rack. Such perfectly browned peaks!
A pie so pretty I had to photograph it from a different angl.
#Piemageddon2024 concludes with a stretch goal pie: chocolate meringue! I haven’t tried this since the mid-80s.
The chocolate custard filling is from scratch, and that is by far my all-time most successful meringue.
A chocolate meringue pie, cooling on a black wire rack. Such a beautiful meringue, perfectly browned.
This chocolate meringue pie is so pretty I had to photograph it from another angle.
#Piemageddon2024 concludes with a stretch goal pie: chocolate meringue! I haven’t tried this since the mid-80s.
The chocolate custard filling is from scratch, and that is by far my all-time most successful meringue.
A pumpkin pie, cooling on a black wire rack.
A second pumpkin pie, also cooling on a black wire rack.
Pumpkin pie number three, on yet another rack.
A trio of pumpkin pies ends #Piemageddon2024 for the night.
Deep-dish spicy apple pie, decorated with leaf cutouts.
Deep-dish spicy apple pie, decorated with moth and dragonfly cutouts.
Next up in #Piemageddon2024: two deep-dish spicy apple pies.
Cherry pie, with collapsed crust. Decorated with moon and star.
Like all piemageddons, #Piemageddon2024 had a minor disaster. The cherry pie boiled over while baking; I started with frozen cherries that hadn’t completely defrosted, so they were probably too wet. The crust fell off one side (why I always put a baking sheet underneath!)
Spicy deep-dish apple pie decorated with leaf cutouts, cooling on a black wire rack.
Deep-dish spicy apple pie, decorated with moth and dragonfly cutouts, cooling on a black wire rack.
Next up in #Piemageddon2024: two deep-dish spicy apple pies.
Chocolate chess pie, cooling on a black wire rack.
#Piemageddon2024 continues, with a chocolate chess pie.
Chocolate chess pie, cooling on a black wire rack.
#Piemageddon2024 continues with a chocolate chess pie.
A chess pie cooling on a black wire rack.
A second chess pie, also cooling on a black wire rack.
#Piemageddon2024 is begun! First up, two chess pies.
A chess pie, cooling on a black wire rack.
A second chess pie, also cooling on a black wire rack.
#Piemageddon2024 has started, with a pair of chess pies.
Man, I'm glad I took all of those stats classes in grad school, . How would I have determined that I needed 4.5x batches of pie crust and worked out the recipes otherwise? #BakingIsScience #ThanksgivingPrep #Piemageddon2024
