Water Pie

 This month, for book club dessert club, we chose Water Pie. Making desserts we have never heard of is a real fun time haha. This is apparently a Depression-era pie that people used with nearly no ingredients. 

Here is the recipe, in case anyone else wants it:

Water Pie

So here's the pie, before baking, but after putting the ingredients in the shell

And I will admit it looks INSANE, and even making it I was like, what the heck is this? 

And then, once it was baked, it actually looked pretty good! And... its delicious! It doesn't really have a flavor, per se, but its just a sweet pie. I would totally recommend this. 

Ultimate Mud Cake

 All right, I don't remember if I've talked of this before (too lazy to go back and check) but along with my monthly book club, I have started a dessert club, so each month we will be making a new dessert. This month is the Ultimate Chocolate Mud Cake. 

The recipe I used is: 

https://www.askchefdennis.com/chocolate-mud-cake/

And here is my cake: 

lol so what happened with this, is that my shelves were too close to each other, so it rose up above the shelf above it.

But then, I smoothed it out and put the ganache on.

It was a delicious cake, and very good ganache. Unfortunately for all of us, its an ultimate dark chocolate cake, so it was BITTER as heck. If I made this in the future, I think I would make a milk chocolate ganache to offset the dark of the cake. It was good just very bitter haha. 

Minimal Cake Dessert

There's not really a name for this, as far as I can see, and it's really such an easy cake, I loved it. And I felt like it was sort of healthy (even though it isn't) and that was a nice thing for my brain. Here it is:

It's so easy to make. Basically, take your favorite chocolate cake recipe, but split it between 3 pans. Since I only have 2 8-inch cake pans, I bought some disposable aluminum pans, and they were square. After baking them, I let them cool. Then I made some typical whipped cream - 2 cups of whipping cream, some vanilla, and powdered sugar. (the recipe is on the carton of cream, if you need it). Put down one of the cakes, spread some whipped cream, another cake, another cream, last cake, last cream and then throw some berries on top (I chose strawberries, blueberries and raspberries). I'm sure I could have made it prettier, but meh, I honestly don't care.
It was so good! We cut the cake into 9 pieces and that was a plenty big enough for anyone. I totally recommend this for anyone, and it was legit the most easy.

Mint Poke Cake

Today I made my very first poke cake, what a day ! I got my recipe from Pinterest, of course, and here it is for your enjoyment:

• 1 box devils food cake, plus ingredients to make cake
• 1 (11.75-oz) jar Smucker's hot fudge sauce
• 1 (14-oz) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1/4 tsp mint extract
• 1 (8-oz) container Cool Whip
• 1 (10-oz) bag Andes baking chips

Bake cake in a 9x13-inch pan according to direction on the package While cake is baking, mix milk, hot fudge sauce and mint extract. When the cake is done and while it's still hot, poke holes in it. I did it with the end of a large mixing spoon. Pour milk mixture over the cake. Allow cake to cool completely. Sprinkle half the Andes over cake. Spread Cool Whip over the top, then sprinkle the remaining Andes on top. Chill in refrigerator.

Guys, this is delicious. Of course, I couldn't find Andes mint chips, so I had to chop my own, which was annoying, but not too bad. At least it was good. 

Behold...the Piecaken!

The other day, I was watching one of my favorite shows, Ginormous Food. In case you haven't heard about this show (which I'm willing to wager is very likely) its a show about a guy who travels all around the country eating GIANT food. One day there was a strawberry shortcake that was 12 inches high, it was amazing. This week they had a restaurant that serves the Piecaken. Let's break it down.
3 layers
Bottom layer: Pecan Pie
Middle layer: Pumpkin Pie
Top layer: Spice Cake
Topped with: a cream cheese cinnamon frosting AND apple pie filling.
Let's get started.

Basically, I bought store bought pies, because I was not going to homemake them. I got the pecan pie, and placed it on a cake plate. I frosted the top, and then placed the pumpkin pie on top. I trimmed the edges to make everything even.

 Then, I frosted the top of the pumpkin pie, for the cake to be placed on there.

 After the spice cake was placed there, I frosted the entire thing, and put some apple pie filling on top.

Look at this amazing thing. I can't wait to try it tomorrow!