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Pi Day Pie

In celebration of Pi Day, I figured some pie should be baked. Except this all happened as the evening was wearing on, and we didn’t really feel like we had the skills necessary to make a real pie crust, and we had a bunch of canned pie filling to get rid of… So we made a Pi Day blueberry crumble!

Alright, so it wasn’t actually that recipe. We had canned blueberry pie filling, so we didn’t need to make filling by hand. Also we were unsatisfied with the canned filling, so we added pitted dark cherries instead of more sweet, syrupy blueberry filling. We also added about 4x the vanilla extract that the recipe called for. For the crumble topping? We followed the recipe… well not really. We improvised with some added cinnamon, fresh nutmeg, and allspice. We liked the sound of pecans better than almonds, so we substituted. We were also lacking toasted oats, so we added another 1/2 cup of pecans. Oh, and we also only used about 2/3 of the bowl of crumble topping before we realized that the topping to filling ratio was going to be way off and stopped with a significant amount of leftover crumble.

Needless to say, we were a little skeptical when we put this thing in the oven. 25 minutes later, though, this came out! (We had already gotten samples by the time I remembered to take a picture.)

Not Pie

It didn’t even look particularly pretty; it was a little burnt on the edges, the filling had bubbled up through the crumble in places, and the crumble looked kinda odd. You know what, though? It was pretty damn delicious.

Happy Pi Day!