I haven’t updated in… a while. I didn’t do a whole lot of baking over the summer, actually, for a variety of reasons: summer is a socially busy season, I don’t have air conditioning and my kitchen gets way too hot to be bearable (which has also led to many cupcake icing disasters), and my roommate’s girlfriend was visiting from France for half the summer so it was harder to claim the kitchen all the time. I did bake a few things and photograph them with the intention of putting them up here, but then they went on the back burner, and now I forget where some of the recipes came from.
So, I’ll start over. With pumpkin pie.
A soggy pumpkin pie.
I didn’t make it home this year for Thanksgiving, and I wanted to do something a little festive, so I tried my hand at baking a pumpkin pie completely from scratch.
I’m still a novice when it comes to baking pies, though. Before this pumpkin pie, I have only ever baked 3 other pies, so I don’t quite know all the tricks yet, but I do believe that this pie failure has something to do with the recipe. I followed it to a T, and also baked a second pie when the first one didn’t work out, and it still came out wrong. The crust was soggy, the filling was bubbly (which I now realize was a result of whisking it too quickly), and it took waaayyy too long to set. I think it might have had something to do with the homemade puree. Perhaps it was too watery. Next time I’ll try draining it (though the recipe didn’t call for that). Or I’ll just take the easy way out and buy a can at the store.
But despite the pie’s shortcomings, it still had a nice flavor, and I’d like to try it again. But maybe with a different recipe next time.
So, anyway, I’ll spare you the recipe, but I will share the photos I took because I did enjoy photographing this even though things didn’t go as planned.
And if anyone has tips to share for baking the perfect pumpkin pie, please pass down your wisdom in the comments!
