In my family, "pie" means "apple pie." Especially on holidays: an apple pie (specifically my unscrewupable version, which was handed down from my mom) is just what's getting made. Except more pie is good pie, and so I always make a second pie that's...something else. Usually pumpkin, because pumpkin seems obvious. But this year, for our Friendsgiving, I wanted to make something a little more decadent and fancy-looking...except given my history with baking, I figured a test-run was in order so as not to leave our friends who braved holiday traffic sitting around our dinner table all pie-less because I effed something up.
Little confession: I didn't actually make this pie; my son (who - heart swell heart swell - has announced that the "wants to cook things" when he grows up) did. (Minus the actual reading-of-instructions part, because he is four.)
And CHECK IT OUT.