Pi Day 2008

We celebrated Pi Day 2008 (3/14, in case you forgot) with a homemade pizza (using this recipe for the crust and adding spices to spaghetti sauce for the sauce--I'm still not satisfied with this method, so if anyone has a good pizza sauce recipe, we'd love to learn it from you!)

and what we have decided to call "Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens Pie." This name is Ryan's fault--he asked me what kind of pie I was making and I called it "Rebekah's Favorite Things Pie," so he started singing. Realizing that it does not contain all of my favorite things, we went with just the first two in the song. The pie is based on some Kraft Food and Family recipes, but I, of course, did not actually follow them (I think it's an attention span issue--you have to pay so much more attention to follow a recipe than to just go with your general idea of the recipe). Instead, I made an Oreo crust, melted some chocolate chips and put a very thin layer of melted chocolate in the bottom of the crust, then mixed about 4 oz. of cream cheese with 2 Tbsp of sugar, folded into that mixture somewhere between 1/2 cup and 1 cup of whipped cream (real whipped cream--as in, made from whipping cream; no sugar) and then stirred in the rest of the melted chocolate chips (probably melted about 1/3 cup chocolate chips overall) and spread that on top of the melted chocolate in the cooled Oreo crust. I put the pie-in-progress in the refrigerator. While the bottom layer was setting a bit, I mixed 1/2 cup (about) creamy peanut butter with 2-2.5 cups of milk, then beat in two vanilla pudding mixes for 1-2 minutes and let it sit for about 5 minutes. For the final step, I poured the peanut butter pudding on top of the rest of the pie and adorned it with a chocolate chip π.

It was pretty good, but next time I would only use one pudding mix and 1 cup of milk and add some whipped cream to the pudding. We froze two pieces of it and liked it much better that way.