Hot Like Ebola!!!: It Was Bound to Happen

I have been doing a whole lot of baking recently. I have been more successful than I have ever dreamed in so doing. I have only made one cake that really didn't work, and everything else has been great!
Today, however, I made several mistakes at once:
1. I tried to bake something I don't like to eat (pecan pie).
2. As I said, this was a pie, which I have never practiced or made before.
3. It was a sugar free recipe, a method with which I am unfamiliar.
4. Sugar substitute was Splenda, which I hate with a boiling passion.

So, I was making something I had never made before (pie), using a type of pie and a mode of cooking alteration I despise.

It said on the recipe to cover the edge of the crust with foil for the first 25 minutes. When I took the foil off, most of the crust and some of the filling came with. Then, when I took it out at final bake time, it had puffed up about an inch over the edge of the tin.

If anybody ever wants to show me how to not do everything wrong for pie, I will gladly drive (or fly) to your house to learn. Until then, I think I'll just stick with cookies, cake, brownies, bread, crisp, and muffins.

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 4:14 AM
id="comments">3 Comments:

Jeni! I would love to bake pies with you! Especially ones we really like to eat! The problema in my casa is that I bake things that remain uneaten for a week until it starts to grow fur, so we should have someone to give it to too...