The Making of: Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie

So I decided to bake the chocolate chip cookie pie from my 'What shall I bake?' post...

And it is good, soooo good. I'm talking treacley, chocolatey and melty. I am slightly euphoric after eating so much, I am just waiting for the sugar crash.
If only the journey in making it was as easy as eating it.


Take 1.


Everything was going right, fine the making of the pie didn't look as gorgeous as Love From The Oven's but every recipe stage looked good enough. Oven 375°F? Check. Ready made pie case? Check. Filling made? Check. Removal of pie case silver foil? Check....that is where I went wrong. I checked on the pie's progress after about 10 minutes of it being oven bound. EPIC FAIL. One side of the pastry case had completely collapsed flooding the oven with cookie filling. It was everywhere...even on the kitchen floor as it had somehow dripped all the way through the oven?!

Take 2.


This time I used ready to roll pastry (Monsieur Squirrel went to three supermarkets to find some; he really is dedicated to my baking), and cooked the pie in a glass pie dish.
It worked. Luckily the pie filling is so easy to make and all I (Monsieur Squirrel) had to find were more chocolate chips so I wasn't too fed up with having to make it again. And the results were sooooo worth it.


The Photographic Evidence:

Foamy Eggs

Dark Chocolate Chips & Honeycomb

Baking Up A Treat

Yum

First of many slices;
just perfect with vanilla ice-cream

The Recipe: Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie from ' Love From The Oven'.


Baking Playlist:


The Same In Any Language: Ruckus


Fallin' And Flyin': Jeff Bridges and Colin Farrell


The End: Mayday Parade


What It Is: Mark Knopfler


Airplanes: B.O.B


Straight Outta Compton: N.W.A


Butterflies: Tone Damli


Learning To Fly: Tom Petty

What Should I Bake?

This weekend I think partaking in a spot of baking is on the cards.

But what to bake?

I have so many baking books and baking bookmarks; not to mention the amount of recipes on my pinterest board sweet treats. It really is a bit difficult to decide what to try (first world problems anyone?)

Here's a selection of what I may attempt, sorry if it makes y'all hungry! For any baking/foodie nuts out there check out the delicious blogs attached to these recipes, they are well worth the read and follow!

Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread by Joy the Baker 

Picture by Joy the Baker

Joy has also just released the Joy the Baker Cookbook: I cannot wait to get my grubby mitts on it!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie by Love From The Oven

Picture by Love From The Oven

I am literally not metaphorically drooling.

Flourless Chocolate Tart by Inspiring The Everyday

Gluten-Free people and chocolate lovers get your bake on with me with this recipe.

Picture by Inspiring The Everyday

Matcha Green Tea Macarons With Chocolate Ganache by YummyWorkshop

Photo from Tastespotting by YummyWorkshop

I know I won't be able to make these this weekend as I still haven't got any Matcha Green Tea Powder (I need this for so many recipes I want to make). But for those of you who have, you must make this recipe! Yummy Workshop also gives amazing tips on how to make perfect macarons in this post, so it's also well worth the read for any macaron makers out there.

All these recipes are from American blogs but as far as I can see we can get all the ingredients here in the U.K. As far as measurements go there are plenty of conversion charts online if you don't own cups. 

What do you think I should bake? Does the cookie pie get your vote, should I attempt the pull apart bread or just chocolate it up? Anyone else got baking/foodie plans this week/weekend? 

Love

Madame Squirrel.