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Happy National Pi(e) Day!

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Are you a Food Blogger in the Los Angeles area (or OC, or SFV)? Then please join us for the 2012 Food Bloggers Bake Sale on April 28th to fight Childhood Hunger. We need more participants (i.e. baked goods), more publicity and lots of bake sale shoppers for Share Our Strength. Simply go to damndelicious.tumblr.com to sign up. Where’s it at? BLD Restaurant, Los Angeles When? Sat., 4/28 from 11:30am-2:00pm 

This blogger is thoroughly exhausted from celebrating National Pi(e) day so we will have ONE MORE DAY of the Pie Round-UP! You can never have too many slices of pie.

If you are out of the loop…yesterday was National Pi Day!

The date was 3-14! Get it? 3.14. This is the only math lesson EVER on S&C (I’m too cool to spell out my whole name…kinda like J.Lo) Pi, Greek letter Pi (which I haven’t figured out how to type on my keyboard) is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. Pi = 3.1415926535…Pretty sweet, right? So here is my pie round up because that’s what any self respecting Pi or Pie enthusiast would do on a mathematically amazing day like today. Enjoy!

First and foremost, I must start with Jeanne’s (Simple Math Bakery) Blood Orange Curd Pie in the shape of Pi. Was she rockin’ the Pi day or what?

How about S&C’s own Hawaiian Haupia Pie which starts with a macadamia shortbread crust, then has a layer of coconut Haupia filling, then a layer of chocolate Haupia and is topped with Fresh Whipped Cream and coconut curls?

How about this doozy, Strawberry Rhubarb Pie from Rufus Food and Spirits Guide which is oozing with strawberry goodness and is even Lattice Topped (Seriously Greg, I am not buying that YOU made it. Katherine? Are you really responsible for this gem?).

Or what about making a traditional and gorgeous Apple Pie from Misadventures in Cooking?

Finally, I would be remiss if I did not direct you to one of my very first posts which is a recipe from Gale Gand and is titled, “Bake Sale Lemon Meringe Pie“.

Maybe now you’ll decide to bake up a beautiful pie when you get home today. Send me the photo…I’ll post it tomorrow with the “I made pie on Pi Day” if you do! Seriously. I am just that nice. Take care and Happy Pi Day!

26 thoughts on “Happy National Pi(e) Day!

  1. Lynne @ 365 Days of Baking's avatar

    Oh, yum! Now I’m DEFINITELY in the mood for some pie!! Happy Pi day!!

  2. Andrea's avatar

    A Pi crawl! What a fabulous idea!

  3. Angie@Angie's Recipes's avatar

    Gorgeous! Love the Pi shape pie!

  4. yummychunklet's avatar

    What a very tasty looking pie round-up!

  5. Caroline's avatar

    I had no idea it was National Pi day…I feel so ill prepared. I didn’t make any pies, nor do I have time to make one tonight–fail! Looks like I’ll just have to do a pi(e) dance instead. I love Jeanne’s pie…in the shape of pi. What a clever woman!

  6. Rufus' Food and Spirits Guide's avatar

    I’m leaving the desserts to Katherine from now on. Make your wife a pie and you just get grief from some fancy pants socal baker. Ha. I will have her send you a notarized letter. Seriously thanks for including my pie. That pi one is just amazing.

  7. Choc Chip Uru's avatar

    Thnks for the wonderful pie day round up 😀
    All of these pies look heavenly!

    Cheers
    Choc Chip Uru

  8. spicegirlfla's avatar

    I must be the only one who didn’t know about this pi day!! What a great line up of pies…how do I every choose which one to make?!! Guess I’ll have to work my way through them all!!

  9. Carol @ Always Thyme to Cook's avatar

    Great way to celebrate Pi day, a delicious way to celebrate. Everything looks so good, but I am partial to Lemon Meringue. Now I have a craving.

  10. Jed Gray (sportsglutton)'s avatar

    I like your version of the celebration better. I mean eating pie is better that punching numbers any day of the week. 😉

  11. ChgoJohn's avatar

    Here I was, spending the day assembling a smoker and then gardening when I should’ve been baking a pie! Now all I can do is look at your round-up, all of those beautiful, luscious, delectable pies, and promise myself to never miss Pi Day again — and have a couple Girl Scout cookies. Although they be wonderful, they ain’t pie!

    What a great post, Geni. Love that banana cream pie pic! YUM!

  12. Courtney's avatar

    Oh, my humble pie is so honored to be on this list (but man do those others put it to shame). Holy moly do they look very good! I had forgotten about your Hawaiian pie – that thing looks decadent.

  13. thebigfatnoodle's avatar

    There’s a Pie Day??? LOL, love it! 🙂 The lemon meringue pie had me literally drooling and like everyone else, I loved the Pi pie, brilliant!

  14. Kia / KTS's avatar

    Happy National Pie(s) Day!!! And just look at these pies. I’m going to have to email this post to my mom too lol. I Love the lemon meringue. It’s definitely calling me. And Rufus pie already gets a 5 thumbs up from my mom

  15. niasunset's avatar

    Happy National Pie(s) Day! I haven’t known this… sounds, seems so exciting and so DELICIOUS too… Thank you dear Geni with my love, nia

  16. Karen's avatar

    This morning when all the pie recipes started appearing on the web I didn’t know what was happening. Now I know what is happening, Pi…your photos make me want to bake one.

  17. Kristy's avatar

    Mmmmm. Pie! I love a good pie. And what fun to celebrate Pi Day. I had no idea – clearly I’m not a math enthusiast. 😉 That top picture just looks so happy and delicious too. I’m really diggin’ this round-up. Always so clever Geni!

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  19. Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust's avatar

    What a great round up! I love pi. Oh, and I love pie too. 🙂

  20. filingawaycupcakes's avatar

    Delicious and hilarious pictures! Good compilation.

  21. Sawsan Abu Farha @ Chef in disguise's avatar

    What an amazing round up Geni, I really shouldn’t have checked this so early in the morning, my shopping list just got a dozzen new items added to it

  22. Lisa Nocera (@LisaNutrition)'s avatar

    Love the “pi” pie! lol
    I agree, an amazing round up! Wednesday was National Registered Dietitian Day! funny how it’s also on national pie day!

  23. Blond Duck's avatar

    I need to bake a pie now.

  24. Joanne's avatar

    I want pie…like…RIGHT NOW. All of these look so good!

  25. Jeanne's avatar

    What a spread! I made pi(e) a day late this year, but better late than never! 🙂

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