Monday, December 5, 2011

Cookies and Cream Pizookie

This summer in Austin I had my first meal at BJ's, the home of the Pizookie. And I LOVED it. Especially the Oreo Pizookie, which I still claim changed my life. Having none out here in Hawaii my sweetheart, Scott, offered to make me one last week. The problem is that there seems to be no one on the internet that has this recipe, so he made it up, and it was sooo great. So here is what he did!



Ingredients:
20 Oreos
1/2 Stick of Butter (melted so that its hott)
1.5 Cups of small marshmellows


Directions


Put the Oreos in the Blender and blend
Put 1 cup of marshmellows inside the blender
Pour the melted butter on top of the marshmellows and the now blended oreos (leave the Oreo's on top so that the hot butter will melt them a little bit)
Blend it all together. Blend it so that it becomes kinda pastey some chunks are fine though!
Once it is all buttery, pour into a pie pan and put the other 1/2 cup of marshmellows on top of it.
Bake at 350 for 5-7 minutes (you want it to still be gooey)
Take it out, scoop some cookies N cream ice cream on top, and enjoy immediately!

Chocolate Haupia Pie

This was the first pie (and only so far) pie I have made in my entire life! There is a famous place called Ted's Bakery not too far from us here that makes this pie and it is AMAZING. When I chose to bring pie to the Thanksgiving feast we had I was so excited to try this!
I got the recipe from All Recipies.com and it was soo easy! I tried one pie with premade Oreo crust and one with frozen regular crust and decided (SURPRISE!) that as much of a chocolate lover I am the Oreo crust was just too much. 





Ingredients

  • 1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 (14 ounce) can coconut milk
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 cup cornstarch
  • 1 1/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
  • 1/4 cup white sugar

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bake crust for 15 minutes, or until golden brown. Set aside to cool.
  2. In a medium saucepan, whisk together milk, coconut milk and 1 cup sugar. In a separate bowl, dissolve the cornstarch in water. Bring coconut mixture to a boil. Reduce to simmer and slowly whisk in the cornstarch. Continue stirring mixture over low heat until thickened, about 3 minutes.
  3. In a glass bowl, microwave chocolate chips for 1 minute or until melted. Divide the coconut pudding evenly into two bowls. Mix chocolate into one portion. Spread on the bottom of the pie crust. Pour the remaining portion of pudding on top of the chocolate and spread smooth. Refrigerate for about an hour.
  4. Whip cream with 1/4 cup sugar until stiff peaks form. Layer the cream on pie; if desired garnish with chocolate shavings.