I have decided to actually start blogging about pies and movies and other awesome things. That was my original intention when setting up this blog, and now I am finally ready to do something with it. To start off my return, or should I say my beginning, what could be more fitting than a not as planned, throw it all together pie?!
The original pie I intended to make was a kick-ass double layer banana cream pie. That was not to be as a very important bag was left at the grocery store. Instead I decided to Pie Hard by pairing various ingredients I had in the fridge with the few essentials for banana cream pie I had managed to get home. The pie ended up becoming a blueberry and banana cream pie made with almond milk and greek yogurt instead of whole milk. We cheated a little and went back to the store for heavy cream, because hey, you just cannot have a cream pie without delicious homemade whip cream to top it. Here are the photos of my process!
This is the sugar and tapioca I put in the skillet to start the puddin’ making process. After this I added a few cups of Almond Milk, a half of a vanilla bean (seeds scraped into the milky mixture and pod placed into the pan as well), and turned the heat to medium high. After the mixture began to boil I stirred it a whole whole lot and added a few egg yolks and stirred quite vigorously!
Eventually after all of that stirring and ass-kickin’ a delicious vanilla pudding was formed!
I removed the pudding from the pan and put it in a bowl to cool in the fridge for awhile. While it was cooling I made a crust. This crust was a chocolate toffee nut biscotti crust! I had to mash up a bunch of biscotti, melt some butter and use a bit of sugar to create this awesome crust.
Once I had everything nice and crumby I pressed it into my pie pan firmly and baked if for a bit. Once the crust had cooled I took my vanilla pudding out of the fridge and removed the vanilla bean pod. I then spread the pudding into the crust and proceeded to mix the blueberries and bananas with 1/4 cup of vanilla greek yogurt and a sprinkle of lemon juice.
I then mixed the fruit and yogurt softly! until it was well mixed. Then I poured the fruit over the pudding layer. I then made whip cream using heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla extract. I spread a layer of the whip cream over the fruit and pudding, then added a sprinkling of more sliced bananas over that first layer of whip cream. Which I then topped with yet more whip cream and garnished with bananas. The end result was this!
The pie turned out to be pretty great. My next pie post will be a bit more planned. Until then, Pie Hard!
Let them eat pie! 