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Pies for Pi Day
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i Day probably isn’t on your Google calendar. But if there’s ever a time to celebrate a math holiday, this is it. Pi Day is March 14, or 3.14, the number representing pi, aka the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Even if you scarcely remember the symbol from 8th grade geometry, the best part about Pi Day is there’s an obvious way to celebrate: pie. We’ve rounded up 3.14 ways to celebrate Pi Day using easy pie recipes that you can make with the kids. They might even earn some bonus credit with their math teacher! —Ann Levelle
NUTELLA CHEESECAKE
Ingredients • 1 graham cracker crust
SWEDISH APPLE PIE Ingredients • 5–6 apples, peeled and sliced
• 13-ounce container Nutella
(any will do, but a mix of red
• 1 pound room-temperature
baking apples and granny smith work well)
cream cheese • ½ cup confectioner’s sugar
• 1 cup + 1 Tbsp. sugar • 1 tsp cinnamon
Directions 1.
Beat cream cheese and confectioner’s sugar till smooth.
2.
• 1 cup flour • 1 egg
Add Nutella and continue
Directions
mixing until well mixed.
1. 2.
• 2 packages instant chocolate pudding mix • 1 graham cracker crust • 1 8-ounce container whipped topping
3.
In a small bowl, combine ¾
1 ½ cups into graham cracker crust.
pudding, then spread the
Spoon over apples
5.
Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or
• 12 full graham crackers, crushed cup sugar
1.
Mix all ingredients together
2.
Press into pie pan
3.
Bake for 10 minutes at 350°
(adapted from tastesbetterfromscratch. com)
second mixture on top of the first
of salt. 4.
Fold one half of the whipped topping into the remaining
1 cup flour, 1 egg and a pinch
nigella.com)
Ingredients
Directions
Whisk together milk and pudding until well mixed. Spoon
cup melted butter, 1 cup sugar,
(adapted from Nigela Lawson;
better when it’s homemade.
• 6 Tbsp butter, melted
Directions
2.
graham cracker crust, it’s always
• 1/3
• ½ cup chocolate shavings
Sprinkle apples with 1 tsp. sugar and 1 tsp. cinnamon
Serve chilled.
will work just fine with a pre-made
• 2 cups milk
1.
GRAHAM CRACKER CRUST While all of these recipes recipes
Ingredients
sliced apples
Spoon mixture into the pie crust and refrigerate for 4 hours.
Fill pie plate 2/3 full with peeled,
EASY CHOCOLATE TRIPLE LAYER PIE
layer already in the crust. 3.
Top with remaining whipped topping and garnish with
until golden.
chocolate shavings. 4.
Cover and refrigerate for four hours.
(adapted from Krissy’s Easy Chocolate Triple Layer Pie on Allrecipes.com) M ARCH 2019
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