Magnum P.I.(E)

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For Alex's family graduation party, I made a vegan coconut cream pie! This picture doesn't really do it justice because I had to take it on Alex's cameraphone because I don't own a digital camera. It went over so well that there wasn't a crumb left to take home with me. I was kind of worried because the pie isn't really creamy by any measure, more gooey than creamy...but I think the toasted coconut on top made it so that it didn't really matter. I'm really excited to improve it, and at Erica's suggestion, I'm going to try and make a coconut dream bar-type version of the pie, with a layer of caramel and chocolate or chocolate chips, and a caramel drizzle on top. A diabetic's dream/nightmare, with an insulin chaser. I've also been wanting to make these heart shaped apple-gallettes from the Veganomicon cookbook. I'm going to make both for Alex's surprise graduation party, which I can talk about right now because he still doesn't know I have this blog :) I also kind of want to make little Daifuku, so I don't know what I'll end up doing. Either way, I really haven't had an excuse to bake anything since Christmas, and summer is just filled with so many get-togethers.

I haven't even attempted to begin working on my summer cover up for the craft magazine sewing contest, and I'm kind of not sure it's ever actually going to happen. There are too many other, better, more fun things to be doing. I don't even go to the beach, so why do I need a coverup? I really only wanted to do it so I could win a free sewing machine or dressform. Oh well.