Invite me to your house for dinner, & I will bring you a pie. Promise.
Friends of ours invited us over for dinner yesterday, and they served an amazing homemade veggie & lentil soup. The flavours were all so fresh, and it was a delicious comfort for a winter night. The soup was prepared with tomatoes, beets, zucchini, carrots, celery, lentils, corn…So good! <3 Now I want to pull out my slow cooker again!
I love how much thought people put in to serving me a vegan dinner when they’re not vegan themselves. It’s really, really appreciated 
{Thank you Stasia & Brandon!} So I bring pie.
I had originally planned on bringing just the pudding with some homemade whipping cream, but when I got to the store, I found this Keebler Ready Crust. It was obviously unintentionally vegan, but it gave me a great idea! There were also chocolate crust and shortbread options, and yep, they were all vegan! Score. Remembering the other ones for future reference for sure.
Unfortunately, when I tried to transfer the crust to my pie plate, it fell apart…haha. So I crushed it and decided to make a graham crumb bottom. No biggie.
I found this recipe for Chocolate Peanut Butter Tofu Pudding and it was perfect. I used smooth roasted almond butter, and icing sugar instead of white sugar {I did not dissolve the sugar as the recipe suggests}. The texture was amazing, and I promptly poured it over the graham crumbs. Into the fridge it went to set.
In the meantime, I went to work on the whipping cream. I had planned to make a homemade coconut version, but found this almond-cashew whipping cream made by Mimicreme when I was shopping. It was in the baking section of the store, un-refrigerated. You don’t need to put it in the fridge until you’re ready to use it! I popped it into the fridge for an hour, though it only needs 30 mins.
When I scooped it out of the box, it was a thick lump. I got out my electric beater and beat it on high for about 8 minutes.
It quadrupled in size!! And tasted amazing! That little box made 4 whole cups of whipping cream
I scooped the whipping cream into my icing syringe and got prepared to decorate.
Smiles!
I shaved some Bernard Callebaut chocolate…
…and sprinkled it on top. Delicious <3
Unfortunately, it looked ugly coming out of the dish, but was delicious nonetheless. Everyone loved it, and there wasn’t a morsel left! Highly recommended by all ;)
If you want to make this recipe:
-use about 1 1/2 cups graham crumbs
-this recipe for chocolate peanut butter tofu pudding
-non-dairy whipping cream of choice
-shaved chocolate, for decorating
Then assemble!
What was the best thing you ate this weekend, foodies?
peace, love, food <3
Char, xo
Okay, you can come over for dinner anytime. How’s tonight? ;)
I’m really lazy about making gf substitutions, since gf baking is a paaaain in the ass. I would kill to be able to eat this pie, looks sooo delish!
haha, I’m on my way! ;)
Only one gluten-free substitution needed: use GF graham crumbs. I’ve seen them in many health food stores. Every other ingredient in this is GF!
Wow you certainly know how to tempt someone! Seems like you’re right on it with this National Peanut Butter Day thing too – I only found out about it when I read Chocolate-Covered Katie this morning but there you go, you’ve got it down!
I get her posts in my email- I had no idea! haha, I’m going over to wish her a Happy National Peanut Butter Day. What perfect timing for this recipe
Yum!! What an amazing National Peanut Butter Day recipe!!
I totally want to stick my finger in that and try it! Haha.
Thank you, Liz! I didn’t even realize…so stoked now, haha.
Not gonna lie: it was hard to keep my fingies out of the pie ;)
Hey, this is purrrrrrrrrfect for Peanut Butter day! I love pudding. My mom used to make an awesome tofu peanutbutter pudding, but she has not made it for a while because she said it was “too rich” (seriously though, it was fine!). I should make this today to have tonight…. even if I’m the only one who eats it ;-)
haha, doooo it! no one said anything about this one being too rich, and it’s actually quite low in sugar. I will be making it again for sure
let me know if you get a chance to try it!
Want to come for dinner? hahahaa… looks so awesome!
If you’ll have me
haha, thank you! It would actually be fun to do a dinner with the 4 of us some day!
i need to get me some of that whipping cream.. looks so smooth and fluffy! and such a perfect pie!
thank you! the whipping cream is perfect. I put the leftover bit in the freezer, because I just can’t bear to waste it!
What a yummy looking pie!!
thank you, Shannon! It tastes even better than it looks
Isn’t it lovely when friends go out of their way to make vegan food when you go for dinner? I have a few who spend ages thinking it through.
I have never made a pie before so I am pretty nervous, but I think I will give it a go!
Same! Agreed, it’s so sweet of people to go out of their way
Of all pies to make, this is likely the easiest, and quite possibly the yummiest. There is no crust-making involved, so it takes away some of the stress! haha
that’s awesome info on the mimic cream. I was sent a sample of their coffee creamer about 3 years ago and it was fine but that stuff looks AMAZING! Holy puffy & quadrupling. Love that!
I saw the creamer in stores, and was curious about it. I usually use the So Delicious coconut milk, but…I bought Dallas an espresso maker for Christmas, so we’ve been drinking cappuccinos with almond milk instead
no regular cups of coffee since before Christmas, haha
oh gosh, I went way off track :/ yes, the whipping cream is amazing!! lol