Pi Pie – gluten-free, vegan, delicious, and covered in Pi
To use a plastic bag to decorate the pie, first tape the edges
Happy Pi Day! March 14th can be written as 3.14, which is the first three digits of pi. We are geeks at my house, so we always celebrate Pi Day with Pi Pie — that is, a pie with lots of digits of pi written on it.
This pie recipe is creamy and chocolatey and delicious. Yum!
For writing with frosting, I like to use a ziplock bag. I add pieces of scotch tape to reinforce the seams and edges, then cut off a corner and (optionally!) add a frosting tip. Put the frosting in the bag, try writing a letter on a plate to make sure that everything is working okay, and then start writing on your pie!
Then put tape diagonally, near the corner.
This pie tastes amazingly yummy at any time of the year, whether or not you draw any digits on it. Don’t wait for Pi Day!
Fold down the ends of the tape. Put another piece of tape in the same place but on the bottom, and fold down its ends too. Cut off the corner of the bag.
Put in a frosting tip. If you don’t have a frosting tip, tape and cut closer to the end of the bag, so the opening is smaller.
Add frosting to the bag, and you are ready to decorate! Draw a test letter on a plate first, before writing on the pie.
My son James, wearing a Pumpkin Pi shirt and eating Pi Pie. :)
Here is a Pi Pie from last year, decorated with cashew cream digits instead of frosting digits.
Pi Pie - gluten-free, vegan, delicious, and covered in Pi
Ingredients
- 1 chocolate brownie crust from the recipe for Fresh Fruit Pie with Chocolate Brownie Crust
- 1 batch of chocolate mousse
- something to write digits with such as a batch of cashew cream (6 tablespoons cashews and 3 tablespoons of water) blended extra-smooth and maybe even sifted through a strainer so that it won't clog the decorating tip. (For the pie in the picture, I used homemade frosting, but in the refrigerator the mousse dissolved it, so I recommend decorating with cashew cream, not frosting)
Instructions
- Make the chocolate brownie crust according to its directions.
- Make the chocolate mousse according to its directions.
- Place the mousse in the pie crust and carefully smooth it out flat with a spatula.
- Use your favorite approach to writing with frosting to write digits of pi on the pie.
- Refrigerate for a few hours to let the filling firm up. (It is hard to wait!)
- Possibly helpful: Here is a website that has a million digits of pi .
I have made cashew cheese with unsoaked cashews before, but it always comes out with little pieces of cashews that don”t process all the way. It”s ok if you want something like ricotta, but not so great for a creamy filling. But usually when I do it they soak for maybe three hours, or I put them in hot water for about 20-30 minutes. It works fine
It may depend on what blender you are using. I haven’t had that particular problem, especially if I blend the cashews first, then work on the rest of a recipe (while the tiny blended pieces of cashews sit in the liquid that they were blended with, which they absorb quickly because they have been blended down to tiny bits), and then re-blend the cashews again right before I use them.