Candy Bar Bars
Candy Bar Pie on Big Oven
I decided to make the above dessert for Nick’s birthday. Let me be clear: I did not do it right. I apparently have no idea how to work with pre-made pie dough or cookie dough. The only thing I managed properly was the candy. I picked this because it looked easy and fun to put together. I had no idea how quickly it would derail.
The first thing I did was wrestle some cookie dough out of a tub to press into a pie crust. I don’t generally buy pre-made cookie dough, but I might have had better luck with homemade (or, at the very least, I should have let this batch rise to room temperature). When I pressed the dough into the pie tin, the pie crust shattered. It was way too much pressure for the delicate graham cracker shell.
Undeterred, I pulled the dough out of what was left of the crust and crumbled the crust into a foil-lined and greased eight by eight pan. I worked the cookie dough into a flat-ish layer over the deconstructed pie crust.
I dotted the now-bars-no-longer-pie dessert with three types of candy: cut up Twix, mini Reese;s cups, and M&Ms. I baked the bars for over forty minutes, though I’m still not sure they cooked through.
They actually tasted okay, though definitely hard on the edges and soft in the middle. If I try these again, I will be making some changes.
