Now I know that many of you are going “What the hell is Crack Pie?” and I am here to inform you. Crack Pie is an invention by New York’s Momofuko Milk Bar. It is apparently as addictive as crack-cocaine and has thus been named Crack Pie. Oat cookies are crushed, mixed with butter and sugar and pressed into a tart case before being filled with a mixture containing butter, eggs, cream and sugar. This is then baked off until the filling is just set. Those who have eaten the actual Crack Pie says the filling is a combination of Pecan pie without the pecans and set condensed milk. This is a pretty good description of it actually, even though I don’t have experience of the real deal myself. I used the LA Times’ recipe and was quite shocked at the amount of ingredients needed. Nevertheless, I soldiered on and baked the oat cookies. They were absolutely insanely delicious. I then blended them in my food processor and mixed them with more butter and sugar. This was then baked in a tart tin until golden brown. The filling is relatively easy to make except that I misread the recipe and thought you needed sour cream. Only afterwards did I realise it was heavy cream that was needed but I decided to bake it anyway. I figured the texture would be richer and thought the acidity might cut through all the richness from the eggs and butter. The end result was seriously delicious but I have to be honest, I was slightly underwhelmed. I don’t know if I did something wrong because I don’t really have first-hand experience. Though saying that, I can’t really fault the pie at all. As one of my twitter friends said “Perhaps Crack isn’t for you.” I can say that I do think the recipe contains slightly too much butter as the butter actually oozed out of the tart and I had to blot some of it with kitchen paper but other than that, this pie is tasty and would be perfect served a cup of espresso. Bake it and let me know what you think! I converted the measurements to metric but if you want the cup measurements, simply follow the original recipe. Also, it says that this makes 2 pies but I have a +- 30cm tart case and it made one pie of that size.
