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Simple & Easy Homemade Pies
for the Holidays baked LIVE Virtually
with Gina & The Chef’s Hat Group

Last night we hosted a fun Baking Season LIVE Cooking show with The Chef’s Hat group!
We were out of our Rig and in the home of my (Gina) parents, so we had the pleasure of using their kitchen.
My darling Mom joined us when it was time to slice the pies . . . Hmmmm, thinking she had planned that all along!
Anyway, we had fun mixing, baking, laughing and then eating the yummy pies LIVE via Zoom together.
If you missed it, well, you missed it. Yep, that’s right.
Being out of our norm , not only did we not Live Stream, BUT we also forgot to hit record. Oops!
Yes it really sucks on so many levels, but mainly because of a missed opportunity of having
my beautiful Mom on screen with me. Would she ever be impromptu and walk on with us again?
No, probably not. Although for those who did join us LIVE, they had the chance to meet a very special lady.
As for my Mom, she enjoyed every second of crashing our LIVE Baking Zoom and has been nonstop telling all her friends!
For those of you who were there, THANKS for making her feel special.

Ok, Now Simple & Easy Pies . . .

We made a total of three pies. One Pecan Coconut Pie (which we had to bake) and while it was
baking we made two (yes, 2) really simple Pineapple Pies. Both recipes are super easy and only
take 5 min to prepare and less than an hour total time to complete.
I’m posting my recipes below to share with our community.
If you make either or both of the Pies, please let me know in the comments below.

First Recipe ~ PeCoconut Pie

This pie is so easy, you just have to mix and bake!
Wait, did we just come up with a new hit phrase . . . Mix and Bake! I like it!
Let’s make a hashtag – it will go viral – don’t you think? LOA. Ok, enough playing around.
It really is a very easy pie, but I have a few tips to share that I think you’ll like too.

Tips & Tricks for making PeCoconut Pie

  • Pie Shell – If using a premade frozen shell – let set out on counter about 10 min before filling
  • Pie Shell – Do not put holes in crust. This will cause filling to get under the crust while
    baking & stick to pan making it hard to cut and plate.
  • Butter – Melt butter completely in your sauce pan/pot on medium heat instead of using microwave.
  • Eggs – beat eggs well in a separate bowl – about 40 strokes – to loosen & thin them.
  • Coconut – May use sweetened or unsweetened – just adjust your sugar accordingly (see below) also
    may use less (like 1/2 c) or more if desired, but not more than 1 cup or it will get to stringy & thick.
  • Sugar – as above if using sweetened coconut you may want to use less sugar. If I use sweetened
    coconut then I tend to use 3/4 c sugar.
  • Pecans – check for any shell pieces and remove, can use between 1/2 – 1 c (like the coconut), but it
    seems to work best when I use equal amounts of both the pecans & coconut.
  • Vinegar – scant – 1/2 tsp or less. I don’t always use the vinegar, so if you don’t have any don’t worry.
  • Vanilla – optional, I don’t use it because I think it adds more sweetness. Try it if you like vanilla.
  • Mixing – Once butter is melted, turn off heat, add in this order Sugar (stir in well) this will cool down
    the butter, add eggs stirring well, vinegar and/or vanilla if using, now add pecans & coconut. Mix well.
  • Pour Into Crust – Start in the center pouring and go clockwise until all is in the crust.
  • Bake – Know Your Oven! Convection Bake will be about 20* less – Mine always takes 35min to bake.

Hope these tips and tricks are useful, but even if you just throw everything in the bowl and
mix it well enough you will still have a really yummy pie in the end.

Mix & Bake
Enjoy!

Second Recipe ~ Pineapple Pie

Simple and easy pie recipe number two! This recipe is even easier! It’s a . . . Mix and Done!
Ok, ok I really had that strange announcer voice going on in my head when I typed this.
What is happening here? Pure craziness! We are going to get through this! ~ breathe ~

Really, I’m just stalling because the pie recipes are so easy that I could have just posted
the recipe, not typed anything and you would have made them perfectly and all would
have been fine ~ BUT ~ how boring would that have been? B o r i n g, very boring!
Instead, I’ll give you a few tips and tricks and hopefully they will be
usefull in other recipes as well. So it goes a few more:

Tips & Tricks for making Pineapple Pies

  • Cold Items – Keep crushed pineapple, lemon juice, & cool whip in the refrigerator until ready to use.
  • Pineapple – fresh is best, but if buy canned drain it but do not drain dry or you’ll loose all the flavor
  • Whip Topping – can use a premade like cool whip, or make your own – need 16 oz whipped
  • Crust – Chocolate cookie crust is perfect but a graham cracker crust works well too. If you want to
    make an Oreo crust then you will need about 25 cookies and 6 Tbls of butter.
    (Don’t use the double stuff cookies) AND don’t use the premade Nut/Chocolate crust (not good with this)
  • Toppings – use your imagination. We made toasted coconut (because we had coconut from above
    recipe) and added some chocolate bar shavings, but fruit would be good too.
  • Fruit – Try other things like mango (one person did while on our Live Show and said it was great too!), kiwi,
    or strawberry might work. Let us know!
  • Options – If you just want to make one pie then save the extra to use as a DIP! Works great!

See super simple and I listed one option to using in a pie, but would love to hear from you and what you come up with.

Mix & Done
Enjoy!

Let’s be baking friends! If you try our recipes please leave a comment here and let us know. By sharing your experience, variations and insights, we learn new ways as well as our readers pick up helpful ideas too.. If you share on Social Media sites, please tag @therivetedfox so we can give your post some love too.

Happy Baking!
Thank you for reading!
Gina (and Chris)

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3 Comments

  1. Wow! Those pies were awesome! I made a huge mess though. Because I dropped one in the middle of everything. Bounced off the ottoman. Still cleaning up 1 day later.