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For any good PIECAKEN, you need a great pie crust. I have experimented with many pie crusts over the last five years (since I opened my pastry, cake and chocolate business) and this one is, by far, my favourite. I started with a recipe that I found on the inside of a box of lard, and then I made a few changes to prevent stickiness and found that I ended up with a flakier, crisper crust.

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I made this Piecaken with my own recipe for pumpkin pie and my usual vanilla cheesecake recipe, just to see how it might turn out.  And - being the chocolate-lover that I am - I topped it with milk chocolate ganache. I loved it.  So then I made a second one for a couple who were planning their wedding and with one taste, they ordered it as the main dessert to be served at the

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Of all the PIECAKEN information available online, I have yet to find any info on savoury piecakens, so it is quite possible that this is a category that my friends and I have created all on our own.  During the last PiecakenFest that we had here on Manitoulin Island, we included a separate competition category for Savoury Piecakens.  With five entries, we were able to see a

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Recipes and how to Make Christmas Piecaken Fun!   You can make Christmas trees out of chocolate with no real tools but a Ziplock bag. Simply place melted, tempered chocolate in a Ziplock bag, cut one tiny corner off and squirt the chocolate onto a piece of waxed paper in swooshing motion to make a tree.  If you don't like the look of your tree, you can use a gloved finger to make

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Recipes and How to Make The Christmas PIECAKEN : Mincemeat Pie in a Fruit Cake!   A friend of mine made a very cool Christmas PIECAKEN for our Piecakenfest in August (that's right, Christmas in August) and it was a real hit. I also thought that if there was such a thing as a British PIECAKEN, this would certainly be it. So if you are thinking of making a PIECAKEN for your Christmas

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Recipes and How to Make Raspberry Pie Nestled in a Flourless Dark Chocolate Cake This PIECAKEN is bursting with bold, bittersweet flavours. And it worked out perfectly the very first time I tried it, without any need for tinkering with my recipe.  So here is the recipe for a rich, delicious dessert, worthy of any high-end dessert café or a fancy dinner party. And be prepared -

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Recipes and How to Make Miniature Piecakens with a delicious Chocolate and Cherry Combination What's the cutest dessert you could make this year?  A CUP-PAKEN - that's what!  You may be asking yourself what on earth is a CUP-PAKEN?  It is simply a mini version of a PIECAKEN, which is sometimes also called a 'pake' - so a CUP-PAKEN is a mini pie inside of a cupcake. 

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Recipes and How to Make Vanilla Bean and Peach PIECAKEN A Fresh Peach Pie inside a Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Bean Icing This Vanilla Bean & Peach PIECAKEN sold out at a local restaurant within just 2 hours.  With fresh, ripe Ontario peaches, this cake was timed to take advantage of Ontario's peach season. It was delicious, so why not surprise your friends and family and try it

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Cheesecake PIECAKENS are extra rich and extra delicious. Sure, you could simply make a strawberry-topped cheesecake, which will have a similar flavour profile, but by putting a strawberry pie inside of the cheesecake it becomes a great surprise. And your dessert will be the most memorable one at the party. So let's get to it! Here is the recipe: Strawberry-Cheesecake

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Well, when is a PIECAKEN ever really a Fail?Last week I saw a pie recipe online like no other. It was a chocolate ganache pie with a shredded coconut crust. For starters, what an excellent idea for a gluten-free crust.  Secondly, dark chocolate ganache in a pie is my kind of pie!  So I thought, "Wouldn't it be a great idea to make a similar pie and put it inside of a fruit-flavoured

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Recipes and How to Make Blueberry Banana Piecaken! For now, here are some pics and quick 'how-to' of a lovely Blueberry-Banana piecaken. Blueberry Pie In A Banana Cake PIECAKEN Make a blueberry pie (or buy one! Farmer's Markets are a great place to get one right now).  Use this recipe from this post: http://piecaken.blogspot.ca/2014/08/

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There is no more delicious combination than peanut butter, milk chocolate and Rice Krispie squares, for children aged zero to 100. So if you are planning a party for a mixed group of kids and adults, or if you need to make a birthday cake for someone who absolutely LOVES Rice Krispie squares, this PIECAKEN is the perfect dessert. Decorate it however you like - as a fancy birthday cake or a simple

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Recipes and How to Make Key Lime Pie in a Vanilla Cake This delicious key lime pie is sandwiched between two layers of vanilla cake and topped with Lime-Infused Buttercream icing and shredded coconut. What a perfect summer dessert. You see, a 'real' piecaken is the art of baking a cake, with a whole pie inside. But some pies cannot be put back in the oven a second time, like a banana cream pie,

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How to Make Pumpkin Pie in a Cheesecake and Apple Piecaken Pumpkin piecaken is the best kind of piecaken. But if you're backyard is anything like mine, and you have too many apples to know what to do with, then it may also be time to make a Fall piecaken treat: apple pie in a cheesecake! Here are a few photos of my Fall piecakens this year, which are sliced and headed to Buoy's Eatery here on

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Why fake a PIECAKEN?  Well, there are a few reasons. The first is, hmm, how can I put this nicely.... laziness.  For instance, my husband wanted to make an entry for our annual Piecakenfest, but he did not want all the trouble of making one from scratch and worrying about whether or not the cake was cooked (it is not easy to tell when there is a pie in the centre of the cake).

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The advertisers may already be playing their 'back-to-school' commercials on television, but summer is by no means over yet.  There is still time for family gatherings in the country, backyard BBQs, and beachside birthday parties, which means there is still a desire for cake, ice cream and, you guessed it, pie.And what says 'summer-in-the-country' better than blueberry

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Recipes and How to Make Cherry Pie Inside of a Dark Chocolate Truffle Cake Recipes and How to Make Cherry Pie Inside of a Dark Chocolate Truffle Cake - delicious AND it is accidentally gluten-free!If you want to bake something that is completely extravagant, over-the-top decadent and totally delicious this summer, that also happens to be gluten-free, this is it!  This is a large PIECAKEN,

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