Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Pie

Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake Pie

Madness! Madness I tell ya!

Myself and Conor were talking about this show called ‘Pushing Daisies’ where these two people make pies in their pie shop. In one episode the girl proposes the idea of making ‘cup pies’ – little single serving pies.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haVmuz_DjfI

Of course when I heard this I thought of cupcake pies… and then the idea of blending the two into one fascinated me so much I became fixated on the idea of making a cake pie – a cake filled pie.

I couldn’t quite wait long enough to go to the shop to make a cake of other flavours, so we used what we had. With this so it became peanut butter and chocolate (peanut butter and cocoa being what we had). It was so easy though and such an uplifting little thing to try.

Ingredients:

Your basic pie crust (double the flour to butter):

- 1½ cups flour

- ½- ¾ cups vegan butter/margarine

- 1/3 cup water (or however until mixture isn’t too dry/wet and sticks together)

- Cinnamon (to make it more sweet)

Your basic vegan cake recipe:

- 1½ cups self raising flour

- 1 cup sugar

- ¾ cup soya milk/water

- ½ cup oil

- 1 tsp vanilla essence

- 1 tbsp vinegar

Also: 1 tablespoon peanut butter, 1 tablespoon cocoa powder

1. Make pie crust: mash flour and butter (along with cinnamon if using) together until cannot do so anymore with a knife. Then use the very tips of your fingers to mix the rest in until like breadcrumbs. Add water and mix, roll into a ball.

2. Make basic cake recipe: mix the wet ingredients, mix the dry ingredients,. Mix two sets together. (or mix the wet, add the two dry ingredients in together then). Split the mixture into two different bowls.

3. Add peanut butter to one bowl, cocoa powder to the other.

4. Get your shortcrust pastry ball and split into two pieces (so that one is twice the size of the other). Roll into a circle and place on pie tray/9 inch baking tray. Roll the other into a circle too.

5. Add your chocolate cake mix into the bottom pie crust, then the peanut butter cake mix on top. Place circular top crust on top and secure at edges. Prick at top with fork. Bake for ~30mins at 180 ̊

Must admit these kind of reminded me of the Reeses chocolate cup things.

I think I might try it again even, though perhaps with even more confusion - …. I’ll put apple cake on the inside!!!

This has been rather a weekend of madness (we ending up playing Snakes & Ladders!) and cakes (mocha cake for my brother’s birthday, shown below), and study (in my case, as exams in 1.5weeks!).