Fall is here and I love seeing all of these wonderful pumpkin recipes floating through the blogosphere! I love this time of year because I immediately think of pumpkin patches, photos with the kids, falling leaves, baking pumpkin bread and, of course, pumpkin pie. I pretty much try to consume as much pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread as possible from now until Thanksgiving.
Growing up, we always bought pumpkin pie from the grocery store. Why not? I mean they’re cheap, readily available to eat and taste pretty good. This year, however, I’ll be baking – surprise- and have been brainstorming ideas on how to change up this recipe. For the pumpkin pie part, if you want traditional pumpkin pie, there’s not much more to change up in my mind (with the exception of some of the spices) and why mess with something that ain’t broke? So, today I just focused on what to eat with my pumpkin pie and the crust.
My sister gave me the idea to incorporate crushed Oreo cookies. Love that. Brilliant in my book. And I took it one step further. You can’t just stop at the crushed Oreo. Oh no you can’t. I tried to do an ultimate pumpkin pie bar with a layer of brownie and cookie at the bottom but couldn’t figure out how I would bake everything together (different temps, different baking times etc). If someone else can figure this out, let’s talk. I would seriously love to eat one of these.
WARNING: For those of you on a diet. . you might want to stop reading here. . all healthy goes out the window with this one. I mean, come on. This IS dessert after all. And we’re celebrating Hip Foodie Mom being the featured Food Blog of the day today on the homepage of 
