Adventures in Experimental Cooking from Scratch

A Recipe for a Yummy (if slightly disastrous) Dinner

1 batch of Chocolate Crinkle cookies
1 Pumpkin Gingersnap pie for inspiration
1 disagreement about the potential tastiness of a caramel apple pie with chocolate crinkle crust
1 lazy Sunday afternoon
2 good helpers (and 1 to watch football with Michael)
lots of butter and sugar

• Crush Chocolate Crinkle cookies. Add walnuts and melted butter according to the Pumpkin Gingersnap pie recipe.
  
• Bake at 325 for 10 minutes. Realize that you probably shouldn't have added the butter.
• Core and peel lots of apples. Mix with lots of butter and sugar. Assign helpers to stir.
  
• Discover that you have too many apples for a pie plate.
• Spoon pie crust into a cake pan. Pour apple mixture on top.

• Bake at 450 for 15 minutes according to a recipe for caramel apple pie. Realize that you probably should have left that part out.
• Bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Make that 15 minutes.
• Discover that 15 minutes was still too long.
• Eat slightly burnt caramel apple pie with chocolate crinkle crust and ice cream.

RESULT OF DISAGREEMENT OVER THE TASTINESS OF CARAMEL APPLE PIE WITH CHOCOLATE CRINKLE CRUST

:: Michael says, "Okay, but not wow..."
:: Erin says, "With some more work, I think I could make this really good...How many more pies can I get away with making?"
:: Boys say, "Yeah! Pie for dinner!"