[shroomgirl]

I was playing in the kitchen a couple of days ago with a whole wheat crust I bought at an interesting bakery near Columbia, mo.
Anyway pulled out a can (EEEK) of leche (caramel) added roasted pecans, made a pastry cream (Lenotre) added chocolate chips
cooled it pre baked the shell....
whole wheat pie crust with caramel (leche) roasted pecans, chocolate pastry cream and whipped cream on top...
I was trying to figure out what this was...turtle pie>>>>not really.... not sure there's anything out there like this.

?????Does it have a name? and do you have any fun pies/desserts that are made up concotions that don't have a "name".

Just one and it's not that inventive. But long before culinary school I was making sweetpotato/pecan pie. The recipe called for making a crumble mixture with the nuts and brown sugar etc. and crumbling it on top after the pie had partially baked. Well I put it on too soon and some of it fell through to the bottom. Well I thought I'd messed it up. It had fallen through before I got to spread it around so I made more but didn't have any butter melted and wanted to get it back in the oven soon so I used honey.

It was wonderful. Now I make the crumble mixture and put it on early and let it fall to the bottom and swirl honey through the pie and finish baking.

eeyore
(I know, Im still a weirdo )

PS I'm going to try yours though, it sounds wonderful and much more sophisticated than my idea.

[shroomgirl]

Strange I thought the other way around...and your not a weirdo.

[cape chef]

ok ,I'm the weirdo!!
But I like both your mistakes
cc

[shroomgirl]

So what would you name them? I hate naming stuff....there are so many shroomgirl surprises out there.... I'm such a literal thinker, it is very easy to make up novel combinations ..it's the naming that's horribly hard....ANYONE ELSE HAVE THIS PROBLEM?

[momoreg]

Since you have the dulce de leche in there, you can call it a tortuga pie (that's spanish for turtle). So it's similar to a turtle pie, but people will know that there's something different about it.

[shroomgirl]

I'd never thrown chocolate chips into hot pastry cream before....I like it!!!When it cools down overnight it has a great texture.

[momoreg]

Yeah, nice and thick, I bet!

[momoreg]

...Or a tortoise pie...

How about caramello.
Danielle