PI DAY 3.14.15

Happy Pi day!

Some pie recipes:

Banoffee Pie (another version is pictured above)

Tarheel Pie (brownie pie)

Lemon Angel Pie (kosher for Passover!)

Chocolate Chess Pie (another brownie pie, with easy pareve ice cream)

Pecan Filo Tartettes

Apple Galette

Blueberry Toaster Tarts

Chocolate Pretzel Tart

Blueberry Torte

Apple Breton

Chocolate Caramel Tart

Purim Bananagrams

I decided to turn my recent obsession with banana cake into a mishloach manot theme. I was playing Bananagrams with my kids when the idea hit me: Purim Bananagrams!

Components of Bananagrams mishloach manot: alphabet cookie squares (these cookies look like Bananagrams tiles), banana cake, a banana, a banana-strawberry juice box, and candy made from Rice Crispies, chocolate and banana chips. The note with the mishloach manot has a drawing of Bananagrams tiles spelling out a Purim message. I have recreated that message in tiles in the picture above. I have also used Hebrew tiles to spell out Purim words and a message.

One more thing: I made a cake for the seuda (a chocolate cake with chocolate glaze) and I used the alphabet cookie squares to write Happy Purim on it. (I have to say, alphabet cookie squares are a really handy way of writing a message on a cake. This is a good thing to keep in mind next time you have to write happy birthday on a cake and don’t feel like using a piping bag.)