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 
Fun and very nice touch!
Thank you, Richard!
That looks gorgeous, indulgent and fabulous! Love your presentation. Isn’t it so much fun?! Congrats on being featured too!! 🙂
Thank you, Brandi! I think I over did it a little with the leaves and stuff. . but yes! I am really enjoying the food styling and the photography. . still learning obviously but absolutely having fun!
No way…you didn’t overdo it at all! I think it’s perfect. It almost makes me feel the breeze of fall!
Brandi, you are so sweet! Thank you!
That’s it – I need to invite myself over to your house just so that I can stuff my face with all the delicious things you make like this genius pie 2.0 in a jar.
Haha! Thank you so much, Nancy! Dude, seriously let me know the next time you are here in Seattle! I’d love to meet up! the jar idea was great in my head but harder to execute! Wasn’t sure how it would taste like this. . but it was yummy! thank you again my friend!